mod_gzip

News: 3/7/2001 - I've decided that it's time to write a JSP version of mgstat. If you'd like to see the source, you can grab it from here.

I've modified mgstat (the original is here written by Michael Suszycki) to funcation as a cgi program. The updated source file is here (mgstat.c).

Compile mgstat.c like this: `cc -o mgstat -O2 mgstat.c`. Then copy the binary to your cgi-bin directory. This modified version of mgstat looks for the environment variable MOD_GZIP_LOG and processes that file. A sample Apache config is as follows: 

	ScriptAlias /mgstat /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mgstat
	<Location /mgstat>
		SetEnv MOD_GZIP_LOG /usr/local/apache/logs/greenhydrant.com/gzip_access_log
	</Location>
Then go to http://yourserver/mgstat and the results will be printed in plain text. The main benefit of using an environment variable is that this makes it easy to setup multiple configurations of mgstat which you can add additional Apache configuration options to. This is very handy if you have multiple virtual hosts, for example, or want to restrict access to certain hosts.

If there is enough interest in this modified version, I will clean up the output into some nice HTML output, but for now, this gets the job done. ;-)

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Last Updated: Wed Oct 02 01:38:24 PDT 2002 www.greenhydrant.com