Apache
Web Server Technology Update
There have been enhancements, new administrative capabilities, and tools added to Apache and the base UNIX
and Window platforms.
SYS-ED workshops explain and demonstrate:
- UNIX threading and how UNIX systems with POSIX threads allow Apache to run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode.
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The rewritten build system based on autoconf and libtool.
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Support for serving multiprotocols and IPV6.
- The improvements in speed and stability on non-UNIX platforms; platform-specific MPM: multi-processing modules and the SPR: Apache Portable Runtime can now be implemented in their native API.
- The Apache API which has corrected many of the module-ordering
and -priority problems from version 1.3
- How Apache modules can now be written as filters which act on the stream of content as it is delivered to or from the server.
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Error response messages to the browser utilize SSI documents and are now provided in several languages.
- The simplified configuration which makes directives easier to implement.
- The updated Regular Expression Library which now includes the PCRE: Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library; all regular expression evaluation now use the Perl 5 syntax.