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Submitted by reeses on Mon, 2002-11-25 04:07.

So, today, I spent a couple hours monkeying around writing an Apache module. I love projects like this, because they afford one a maximum of frustration while offering a minimum of reward. I climbed or reclimbed several learning curves (c, Apache modules, gcc on cygwin) that I will probably not have to climb again, at least for another year or so.

What I did learn is that I should have used mod_perl for this, which would have at least replaced all of the items in parens above with (perl). All I want to do is initialise a module, pass in a filename, and rewrite URLs. Yeesh. You'd think I was integrating a programming language that let you modify Apache's internal data structures.