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Seit heute unterstützt Xerl FastCGI. Dafür waren lediglich diese Änderungen notwendig. Subjektiv wird jetzt alles viel schneller als mit old plain CGI ausgeliefert :)

Was ist Xerl? 

Xerl is an open source website template engine (TE) with some features of a Content Management System (CMS) programmed in object oriented Perl and using XML.

Vor Kurzem habe ich diese 3 Projekte auf Freshmeat veröffentlicht. Wer up2date bleiben möchte, kann neben diesem Blog auch auf die jeweiligen Projekte auf Freshmeat subscriben.

• http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwgrep
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/loadbars
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/xerl

Unter dev.buetow.org habe ich soeben eine dynamische Seite mittels Xerl erstellt, die alle meine Projekte (aktiv/inaktiv/obsolet) an einer zentralen Stelle auflistet.

Da jedes Projekt seine eigene Xerl-Site hat, habe ich für dev.buetow.org (was selbst eine Xerl-Site ist) mittels Inline-Perl alle Projekte automatisch inkludiert. D.h. neue Projekte werden automatisch auf dev.buetow.org aufgelistet werden, sofern ich innerhalb der Projekt-Sites die entsprechenden Tags setze.

Xerl is an open source website template engine (TE) with some features of a Content Management System (CMS) programmed in object oriented Perl and using XML.

It now supports the redirect:* directive. Which allows me to configure HTTP redirects from one host to another without using mod_rewrite or .htaccess. redirect:* is working like the alias:* directive of the previous feature upgrade.

One small step for Xerl - one giant step against duplicated content.

I've committed Xerl Revision number 170 to the subversion repository. Xerl is an open source website template engine (TE) with some features of a Content Management System (CMS) programmed in object oriented Perl and using XML.

Enhancements made:

• Host aliases can now be configured using an alias:hostname file. E.g.:

  echo www.buetow.org > hosts/alias:buetow.org

  would create the host buetow.org as an alias to www.buetow.org. Means: buetow.org shows the same content as www.buetow.org. My hosts/ directory now looks like this (alias:* are host alias definitions and the rest are directories for the "real" virtual hosts):

  alias:buetow.org               fype.buetow.org
  alias:butow.org                irssi.buetow.org
  alias:dslvpnrouter.buetow.org  jsmstrade.buetow.org
  alias:pb-labs.com              lan.buetow.org
  alias:perl9.org                netcalendar.buetow.org
  alias:www.butow.org            niduterm.buetow.org
  alias:www.pb-labs.com          paul.buetow.org
  alias:www.xn--btow-0ra.com     perlchat.buetow.org
  alias:www.xn--btow-0ra.org     stud.buetow.org
  alias:xn--btow-0ra.com         use.perl9.org
  alias:xn--btow-0ra.org         vpndslrouter.buetow.org
  awksite.buetow.org             vs-sim.buetow.org
  bg.buetow.org                  www.buetow.org
  blogs.buetow.org               www.perl9.org
  calculator.buetow.org          xerl.buetow.org
  curses.buetow.org              ychat.buetow.org
  default                        yhttpd.buetow.org
  fuzzybot.buetow.org

  Because of duplicated content, the next version of Xerl may use a HTTP redirect instead (search engines). The old way of defining aliases still works as well:

  echo buetow.org=www.buetow.org >> conf.txt

  However this method is not the preferred anymore. conf.txt needs to get restructured anyway.

• Initial support for plugins

• Some code review including more documentations about the coding style to use.

Xerl is work in progress! It has no real documentation and no release available atm. This is mostly a hobby project fitting my own needs in having dynamic websites.

Recently, I managed to program a few cosmetics fixes for the Xerl Template Engine. Xerl is a website template engine written in Perl and designed to use XML as its primary source for content and configurations.

• Xerl is not logging any IP addreses anymore. Xerl is now logging hashsums of those instead.
• Xerls logging internals have been improved.
• Lots of other small but nice cosmetic fixes have been introduced.

As a user, nobody will recognize any of those changes. I wanted to mention recent work in order to show that Xerl is not dead. However, the progress of development is slow but constant.