Apache Week issue 296

                                APACHE WEEK
                                      
The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                          Issue 296: 24th May 2002
                                      
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                                 In this issue
                                       
     * Under development
     * Featured articles
       
                               Under development
                                       
     As covered [1]last week, support for apachectl's start/stop/restart
     functionality has been integrated into the httpd binary itself for
     the next release of Apache 2.0, using the -k command line option.
     The intention is that in basic installations, the HTTP server can
     be started by running httpd -k start, and stopped using httpd -k
     stop.
     
     The naming of release archives was raised as a possible source of
     confusion for Apache users on Win32 platforms. For Windows users
     who wish to compile Apache by hand, a .zip is posted alongside the
     standard .tar.gz for each release, containing the Apache source
     converted to use the DOS newline convention. It is feared that many
     users looking for the [2]Win32 installer binaries (stored in a
     different location) are downloading this source .zip archive by
     mistake. Naming strategies are being devised to attempt to
     alleviate this confusion.
     
     Other topics under discussion on the development list include a
     deadlock discovered in the worker MPM and some problems with
     mod_cache in 2.0.
     
                               Featured articles
                                       
     In this section we highlight some of the articles on the web that
     are of interest to Apache users.
     
     The administrator at cgisecurity.com has written [3]"The Cross Site
     Scripting FAQ" to clarify what this security issue really means,
     and what its threats are. The article demonstrates a simple method
     of stealing a cookie and examines a few examples of cross site
     scripting attacks. The official Apache website also has a few
     articles regarding this issue with [4]information specific to
     Apache 1.3.
     
     PHP's creator, Rasmus Lerdorf reveals his innermost thoughts in
     [5]an interview hosted by the SitePoint community forums. Find out
     what his opinions are on the best web server to run PHP on, and
     what lies ahead for PHP.
     
     [6]"Poor Sysadmin's Guide to Remote Linux Administration" lets you
     in on the secrets of how to survive as a system administrator on a
     low budget who is far, far away from his machines. Since using a
     "daemon monitoring daemon" tool is the way to go, Kendall Clark
     reviews 4 such utilities: supervise, mon, monit, and Dms. He also
     shows us how easy it is to monitor an Apache web server using one
     of these tools.
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     This issue brought to you by: Joe Orton, Min Min Tsan
     Comments or criticisms? Please email us at
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References

   1. http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/02-05-17#dev
   2. http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/
   3. http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml
   4. http://httpd.apache.org/info/css-security/
   5. http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/767
   6. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/09/sysadminguide.html?page=1
   7. mailto:[email protected]
   8. http://www.apacheweek.com/
   9. http://www.redhat.com/

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