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APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
Issue 334: 5th September 2003

In this issue

* Under development
* In the news
* Featured articles

Under development

After fixes for the three problematic mod_include bugs [1]covered
previously were checked in, another emerged and prompted the
ever-prolific André Malo to rewrite most of the code in the module.
The edge cases in the filtering logic have been eliminated and the
cleaner code will hopefully prove to easier to maintain.

Releases are pending from both the stable 2.0 tree and the unstable
2.1 tree; the 2.0.48 release will include useful improvements to
mod_deflate along with the usual horde of bug fixes. The first
release from the 2.1 tree will pave the way towards a stable "2.2"
release; this prompted discussion of some design issues with the
filter interface which are yet to be settled.

The "zombie CGI process" bug introduced in the 1.3.28 release
([2]BZ#21737) was fixed once, then fixed again, after it was
discovered the original check-in did not solve the problem on some
platforms; the [3]final patch can be retrieved from the CVS
repository.

In the news

>From the editors

We've had a few emails from people who have wondered why we've
missed out so many issues of Apache Week this year. We decided some
time ago that rather than fill up your inboxes with lower quality
padding, we'd sometimes miss out issues if there is nothing much
exciting to report about. We've also all been out on holidays and
we're a little light on staff as long-time Apache Week author, Min
Min Tsan, has left Red Hat to pursue other opportunities. Many
thanks Min Min for your two years of Featured Articles and reviews.

Apache Newsletter Launched

The first issue of the official [4]Apache Newsletter was launched a
couple of weeks ago. The monthly newsletter aims to cover all of
the Apache Software Foundation projects and is packed with
development news as well as details of all the new releases.

ApacheCon 2003

Preparations are now well underway for ApacheCon 2003, with the
organisers taking a gamble and betting that people will want to go
back to same venue in Las Vegas as ApacheCon 2002.

The conference schedule isn't yet online but a number of bloggers
have already worked out a way to subvert the Apache IRC channel bot
to work out that their sessions were accepted. These include
[5]"Developing Web Applications with CGI::Application",
[6]"Scheduled Advanced Apache Administration with Perl", [7]"PHP
Attacks and Defense", and [8]"Apache Security Secrets Revealed"

Apache Week will be there as always to report on the festivities,
but it is nothing like being there in person and being able to talk
to the members that actually write the software. We'd suggest you
mark off November 16th to the 19th in your calendars in
anticipation of registration opening.

Apache powers two-thirds of all servers

In this month's [9]web server survey from [10]Netcraft, Apache
leaps up to take over 67% market share, the first time it has been
over the two-thirds mark.

Meanwhile Information Week report that [11]"Microsoft Takes Linux
For A Test Drive", and installs Apache in their Enterprise
Engineering Centre. No doubt in order to learn how to compete with
the market leader.

An Apache J2EE Implementation

Also last month, the Apache Software Foundation announced that they
would start incubation of a new project with the aims to develop an
open source, Apache-licensed, implementation of the J2EE
specification. More details are available from the [12]article at
internetnews.com or from the [13]ASF project page.

Featured articles

In this section we highlight some of the articles on the web that
are of interest to Apache users.

TechRepublic look at what it takes to [14]"Protect your Apache
server from DoS attacks". The article gives a good introduction to
what the different types of Denial of Service attack are and how
they impact on users running Apache servers, and ends with a look
at the third party mod_dosevasive module.

In [15]"mod_rewrite: No More Endless Loops!", Andrea Rossignoli
takes a look at the recent addition to the RewriteOptions
directive, MaxRedirects. Her tutorial shows how to configure and
use the directive and how it can protect against mistakes when
creating mod_rewrite rules.

Sun have produced a case study, [16]"Porting Apache Web Server from
Solaris OS, SPARC Platform Edition to x86 Platform Edition" which
gives a step by step guide to download, compile, install, and run,
Apache 2 on Solaris.
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This issue brought to you by: Mark J Cox, Joe Orton
Comments or criticisms? Please email us at
[17]editors@apacheweek.com.

References

1. http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/03-07-25#dev
2. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id!737
3. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/apache-1.3/src/main/alloc.c.diff?r1=1.147&r2=1.146
4. http://www.apache.org/newsletter/
5. http://use.perl.org/~Purdy/journal/14492
6. http://use.perl.org/~cwest/journal/14480
7. http://use.perl.org/~shiflett/journal/14478
8. http://www.advogato.org/person/mjcox/diary.html?start
9. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/09/01/september_2003_web_server_survey.html
10. http://www.netcraft.com/
11. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID803689
12. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2246281
13. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/geronimo.html
14. http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6329-5058830.html
15. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1207
16. http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/casestudy_port_x86.html
17. mailto:editors@apacheweek.com
18. http://www.apacheweek.com/
19. http://www.redhat.com/

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