Apache Week issue 316

                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                        Issue 316: 6th December 2002

                                 In this issue

     * Under development
     * In the news
     * Featured articles
     * Apache Week giveaway

                               Under development

     A  consensus seems to have been reached on the commit policy to use
     for  the  new  Apache 2.0 stable tree, which had previously divided
     opinions  among  the group, as [1]covered last week. The new policy
     will be to submit all patches to the mailing list for review before
     committing  them;  if  the  changes  receive positive feedback from
     three  committers,  or  they  receive no negative feedback within a
     period of days, they will then be committed.

     There  have  been  some  reports that using IPv6 with Apache 2.0 on
     Linux  with  some  particular  Gigabit  Ethernet  network cards can
     result  in  response  packets  being  sent  with  an  incorrect TCP
     checksum; the connection appears to "hang" before the HTTP response
     is  sent,  as clients discard these packets. Investigation is still
     underway,  but  one  theory  is  that  since  the  TCP  checksum is
     calculated  on the card itself when the "zero-copy" sendfile() call
     is used in Apache 2.0, this could be a hardware bug.

                                  In the news

Apache Modelling Project

     [2]The  Apache  Modelling Portal provides the results of the Apache
     Modelling  Project in which research assistants and students of the
     Hasso  Plattner  Institute  in  Germany  have studied, modeled, and
     documented  the  Apache  HTTP  Server  using  fundamental  modeling
     concepts.  The  information  gathered  in this project is available
     online  to  be  downloaded  as  a set of HTML pages or a single PDF
     file.  It currently focuses on Apache 1.3 while a study on Apache 2
     is still in progress.

                               Featured articles

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

     Issue  85 of Linux Gazette talks about a simple Perl script that is
     used  to  manage  faxes on a fax server over the web in [3]"Viewing
     Faxes  on  the  Web".  It  shows you how Apache 2.0 is compiled and
     configured  before  listing  the  complete  source code of the Perl
     script.

     [4]"How  to  Build,  Install,  Secure  &  Optimize  Apache 2.x" and
     [5]"How  to Build, Install, Secure & Optimize PHP" walk you through
     the steps of installing version 2.0.43 of the Apache web server and
     PHP  4.2.3  as a DSO module. The instructions were tested on OpenNA
     Linux and Red Hat Linux 7.3 but apply to other platforms as well.

     In the September 2002 issue of Linux Magazine, the article entitled
     [6]"Hackproofing  Your  Web  Applications" teaches you how to start
     worrying  and  love  security.  It  starts  off  by revealing a few
     exploits.  Then  it  demonstrates  the  moves  on  how  to  protect
     yourself. Finally it leaves you with ten rules to secure by.

                             Apache Week giveaway

     Last  week  we  asked  you  where  the last ApacheCon was held; the
     answer  of  course  was  Las  Vegas.  Congratulations then to lucky
     reader  Jack  Vamvas  in  the  UK  who wins a copy of the SAMS book
     "Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 hours".

     If  you didn't win this time why not read the [7]Apache Week review
     of  the  book  and  look out for more book competitions and reviews
     coming soon.
       ______________________________________________________________

     This issue brought to you by: Mark J Cox, Joe Orton, Min Min Tsan
     Comments or criticisms? Please email us at
     [8][email protected].

     [9]Apache Week is copyright 1996-2002 by [10]Red Hat, Inc.

References

   1. http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/02-11-29#dev
   2. http://apache.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/
   3. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue85/nielsen.html
   4. http://www.openna.com/documentations/articles/apache/
   5. http://www.openna.com/documentations/articles/php/index.php
   6. http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-09/security_01.html
   7. http://www.apacheweek.com/features/book-apache24hours
   8. mailto:[email protected]
   9. http://www.apacheweek.com/
  10. http://www.redhat.com/

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