Apache Week issue 326

                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                         Issue 326: 25th April 2003

                                 In this issue

     * Under development
     * Featured articles

                               Under development

     The  commit  policy  on the stable and unstable branches of the 2.0
     CVS  tree  came  under  scrutiny  this  week,  after  a  change was
     committed  to  the  stable  tree  without  going through the review
     process.  It  was  clarified  that  all  changes  should  first  be
     committed  to the unstable tree, and receive three supporting votes
     from reviewers before being back-ported to the stable branch.

     Some  server administrators on modern Linux platforms may have been
     encountering  difficulties  getting  a  core  dump out of an Apache
     server  when trying to track down a segmentation fault. This can be
     due  to  a change introduced in the Linux 2.4 kernel which disables
     core dumps for processes which have changed user id (such as httpd,
     which  changes  from the "root" user to some less privileged user).
     [1]Jeff   Trawick  has  published  an  Apache  1.3  module,  dubbed
     [2]mod_prctl,  which enables core dumps on Linux without needing to
     recompile  Apache.  A  patch  to  enable  core  dumps has also been
     committed to the Apache 2.0 CVS tree.

                               Featured articles

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

     [3]"Filters  in Apache 2.0" demonstrates how to port Apache::Clean,
     a  content  filter  written for mod_perl 1.0 using mod_perl 2.0 API
     for Apache 2.0. It starts off by a basic explanation of what output
     filters are, how HTML::Clean and Apache::Clean works, and ends with
     a detailed look at the source code of the new Apache::Clean.

     Builder.com shows you [4]how to enable PHP4 support for an Apache 2
     web  server  running  on a Microsoft Windows machine. It guides you
     through  the  steps  of installing binary distributions of Apache 2
     and PHP4, editing both configuration files (httpd.conf and php.ini)
     manually for them to work together, and testing to ensure that your
     setup works.

     The  article entitled [5]"Python and Apache" is the result of Peter
     Laurie  making  amends  for not covering Python in the "Apache: The
     Definitive  Guide, 3rd Edition" book which he co-authored. Here, he
     provides  a  sample  Python script that retrieves data from a MySQL
     database  and  configures  Apache  to run the script whenever users
     access  the  main  website.  Unfortunately some of his observations
     about  Python  as  a newbie didn't go down well with the language's
     enthusiasts as can be seen from the comments he received.

     Time  and  time again one of the reasons cited for the slow rate of
     migrating  to  Apache  2 is a lack of suitable third-party modules.
     Now  a  list of third-party modules ported to Apache 2 is available
     [6]here  so  do  check  it  out to see if the module you require is
     available.
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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/#trawick
   2. http://www.apache.org/~trawick/mod_prctl.c
   3. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/04/17/filters.html
   4. http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml?id=u00320030424gcn01.htm
   5. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/04/10/apacheandpython.html
   6. http://www.deserve-it.com/third_party_modules_for_apache2_1.html
   7. mailto:[email protected]
   8. http://www.apacheweek.com/
   9. http://www.redhat.com/

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