APACHE WEEK
The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
Issue 333: 1st August 2003
In this issue
* Under development
* In the news
* Featured articles
Under development
Andr� Malo has been working behind the scenes on improving
mod_rewrite in the 2.1 tree, with nearly sixty changes being
checked in over the last month including bug fixes, optimisations
and numerous cleanups. The backport process continues to ensure
that important bug fixes get integrated for future 2.0 releases.
Some interesting applications of the Apache 2.0 filtering
architecture emerged as module developer Nick Kew offered four of
the modules he has developed for integration into the httpd tree;
all four modules are designed specifically as input or output
filters. Server administrators running reverse proxies may find
[1]mod_proxy_html particularly useful; this module implements an
output filter which can rewrite URLs in the HTML content being
proxied. Consensus on the list was that at least one of Nick's
modules would be considered for inclusion.
In the news
In this month's [2]web server survey from [3]Netcraft, Apache gains
its highest ever percentage share (63.98%) over the eight years the
survey has been running. The survey continues to see large changes
in the absolute number of sites using particular server software as
domain parking sites switch between different vendors.
Featured articles
In this section we highlight some of the articles on the web that
are of interest to Apache users.
The pioneer long-awaited book for mod_perl 2.0, [4]"Practical
mod_perl" by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet is now available. You can
read the most important chapter of this book, "Chapter 6: Coding
with mod_perl in Mind" at [5]WebReference.com and learn how to port
an existing CGI script to work under mod_perl.
Russell Dyer presents two scenarios on how [6]name-based Apache
Virtual Hosts can help to simplify your life. He also walks through
the steps on how to configure Apache to achieve it. SSL enabled
Apache is not covered in this article.
[7]PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You examines some of the
features in PHP5 to justify its existence. Examples of code are
provided to illustrate the points and can be downloaded from
[8]here.
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References
1.
http://access.www.webthing.com/software/mod_proxy_html/
2.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/01/august_2003_web_server_survey.html
3.
http://www.netcraft.com/
4.
http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/mod_perl/
5.
http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/mod_perl/chap6/1/index.html
6.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/07/24/vhosts.html?page=1
7.
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/1192
8.
http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/php5/php5_code.zip
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10.
http://www.apacheweek.com/
11.
http://www.redhat.com/
