Thursday, July 14, 2005

Screw my own server, mod_mono to the rescue

I've been having so much trouble with file uploads on the web server a friend and I built, that tonight I finally gave up. The problems were mainly in mono, but they appeared under Windows, too (just less frequently and with less severity).

For example, one error I was seeing under mono was that, somehow, the binary data for files was overwriting other variables. Now, I could understand this in C or C++ or any other unmanaged language, but C#?! Come on! If anyone has any clue as to what could be happening, feel free to leave a comment (I'd love it).

But, since I want to launch publicly in beta shortly, I decided it wasn't worth my trouble to continue bug fixing. The backend is portable enough that all I really have to do is make some HTML and map querystrings to functions. Here's where mod_mono saved me. Plus, I'm comfortable in ASP.NET, so hopefully this'll be good.

I'm currently waiting to test, but I have everything installed and ready to go.

One more thing- I'm not giving up on my server. I'm just putting it on the backburner for later. There's so much I can and will improve in Openomy that this will be a serious display of iterative and incremental fixes.

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