Apache Week issue 333

                                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

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

     [10]Apache Week is Copyright 2003 [11]Red Hat, Inc.

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
   9. mailto:[email protected]
  10. http://www.apacheweek.com/
  11. http://www.redhat.com/

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