[rt-users] Trying again

[Bruce Campbell]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Russ Johnson wrote:

> Hmm, I copied that directly out of my httpd.conf file on my working version
> of RT.
>
> And actually, RT is working on that box. Although, I changed that line, and
> suddenly, apache wouldn't run... come to find out that Apache::DBI wasn't
> installed... Weird... even with that not installed, RT seemed to be working.
>
> What would break if Apache::DBI isn't installed?

'RT' ?

Apache::DBI is pretty streamlining chaff for processes running under
Apache that use the perl DBI:: modules (eg, database connections).  It
maintains, per apache process, a connection to the db that is persistent
across seperate pages.  This means that on each page served, there is not
a seperate connection ( plus associated overhead) made to the database.

perldoc Apache::DBI will give you more gory details.

If its not there, either RT will not work, or it will be much slower (open
a seperate connection to the database on each page request).

Tuning Apache to run properly under database applications is another ball
game all together.

Regards,

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