Apache Technology Update

There have been enhancements, new administrative capabilities, and tools added to Apache and the base UNIX platform.

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.
• The rewritten build system based on autoconf and libtool.
• 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 new Apache API which has corrected many of the module-ordering/-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.
• 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.