Documentation patch for reproxying.txt

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Tue Dec 6 08:03:31 UTC 2005


Doh, thanks!

(And I'm glad so many people are enjoying the reproxy stuff, since it
was the primary reason Perlbal was made...)

- Brad

Fred Moyer wrote:
> I upgraded my Perlbal installation to the latest version for testing,
> and after kicking myself for not reading the CHANGES file first I
> realized reproxing had been disabled by default :)  Suggest the
> following change for shortsighted individuals like myself.
> 
> --- doc/reproxying.txt    2005-12-05 23:45:24.000000000 -0800
> +++ doc/reproxying.txt    2005-12-05 23:47:22.000000000 -0800
> @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
>  then load that file or URL and send it to the user transparently, without
>  them ever knowing that they got reproxied to another location.
> 
> +Add the following line to your perlbal.conf to enable reproxying on a per
> +service basis ( reproxying is disabled by default in >= 1.38 ):
> +
> +  SET enable_reproxy  = true
> +
>  This can be useful for having URLs that get mapped to files on disk
> without
>  giving users enough information to map out your directory structure.  For
>  example, you can create a file structure such as:
> 



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