Submission by Plain Black
Plain Black is proud to announce the release of the WebGUI Runtime Environment (WRE), a compilation of all the WebGUI prerequisites into a simple preconfigured package for unix-style distributions such as Linux, Mac OSX, BSD, and traditional Unicies. In addition, it provides many useful utilities for administering your WebGUI sites, as well as several performance enhancements over other types of installs. In short, the WRE helps you get WebGUI up and running faster, and keep it running better.
It includes all of WebGUI's prerequisites:
- Apache
- mod_perl
- MySQL
- Perl
- Image Magick
- Required Perl Modules
It also includes these features to make managing WebGUI easier:
- Site Add/Remove Scripts
- Web Site Statistics (AWStats)
- Web Site Encryption (OpenSSL)
- Log Rotation
- WebGUI Update (automatically upgrade WebGUI)
And these performance enhancements to make WebGUI faster and more reliable:
- HTTP Data Stream Compression (mod_deflate)
- Reverse Proxy (mod_proxy)
- Process Size Monitoring (Apache2::SizeLimit)
- Pretuned Apache Configuration
- Pretuned MySQL Configuration


