Apache Week issue 320

                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                        Issue 320: 7th February 2003

                                 In this issue

     * Under development
     * Featured articles

                               Under development

     ASF  chairman  [1]Greg Stein sparked off a long debate this week on
     the  development  list  by  drawing  attention  to  an  article  on
     [2]Apache 2.0 adoption published last month. The discussion centred
     around  using  PHP  with Apache 2.0, and the two main problems with
     doing   so:   thread-safety  issues  with  the  myriad  third-party
     libraries  which  PHP uses, and the compatibility of the PHP engine
     API with the Apache 2.0 filters interface. It was accepted that the
     former  problem will take some time to disappear: in the mean time,
     using  PHP  with the non-threaded "prefork" MPM under Apache 2.0 is
     the  only recommended combination. Several ideas for fixing the API
     compatibility problems were exchanged.

     As a demonstration of Apache 2.0's support for protocols other than
     HTTP,  [3]Ryan  Bloom  wrote  a mod_pop3 module supporting the mail
     protocol  POP3. The module has remained largely untouched since its
     inception  in August 2001; a proposal to move it into the httpd-2.0
     CVS repository has received several positive votes.

                               Featured articles

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

     [4]"JSP  Quick-Start Guide for Windows" walks you through the steps
     of setting up a JSP-enabled Web server on a Windows PC using Tomcat
     4.1.18 and Apache 2.0.44. It also shows you how to integrate Apache
     and  Tomcat  by  using  mod_jk  as  other connector modules such as
     mod_webapp  does  not work reliably on Windows and mod_jk2 does not
     have  comprehensive  documentation  on how to configure it. It ends
     with an example of a working JSP in Apache.

     In  the November 2002 issue of Linux Magazine, the article entitled
     [5]"Live  Logs"  lists  the  PHP code for implementing a simple Web
     interface  to  query and display useful information from all Apache
     traffic that has been stored in a MySQL database. This example just
     provides  a  list of domains, the total number of requests for each
     domain,  the  most  recently  requested  URI  of a domain, the most
     popular URI of a domain, and how many hits for each URI but you can
     customise the example scripts to output other statistics.

     [6]"Creating  Your Own CA" talks about Certificate Authorities (CA)
     and explains how you can act as your own CA by creating your own CA
     certificate  and  then  signing certificate requests with your CA's
     key. All these are done with the CA.pl utility, part of the OpenSSL
     toolkit.
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     This issue brought to you by: Mark J Cox, Joe Orton, Min Min Tsan
     Comments or criticisms? Please email us at
     [7][email protected].

     [8]Apache Week is Copyright 2003 [9]Red Hat, Inc.

References

   1. http://httpd.apache.org/contributors/#stein
   2. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20572.html
   3. http://httpd.apache.org/contributors/#bloom
   4. http://webmasterbase.com/article/305
   5. http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-11/lamp_01.html
   6. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/02/06/linuxhacks.html
   7. mailto:[email protected]
   8. http://www.apacheweek.com/
   9. http://www.redhat.com/

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