brian 98/04/20 01:12:29
Modified: . Announcement
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Moved history down to the bottom of the page (anyone getting this
announcement already knows all that) and added spaces between features
to make it more legible.
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--- Announcement 1998/04/15 16:18:00 1.15
+++ Announcement 1998/04/20 08:12:28 1.16
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version a good thrashing in order to provide as much feedback as possible
to the Apache Group before the release of 1.3.0.
- Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of
- 1996. The Web Server Survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/)
- found that more web servers were using Apache than any other software.
Apache
- and its derivatives are run on over 50% of all web domains on the Internet.
-
- The Apache project has been organized to provide an open-source, secure,
- efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with
the
- current HTTP standards. For more information about the Apache project check
- out http://www.apache.org/.
-
To grab the latest Apache distribution, check out
http://www.apache.org/dist/
and the huge list of available "International Mirror Sites" at
@@ -35,51 +25,83 @@
o Ported to Windows 95/NT
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/windows
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.NT
+
o Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/ebcdic
+
+ Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for out-of-the-box installation
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.configure
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/INSTALL
+
+ Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for all major Unix platforms
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/README.DSO
+
+ APache eXtenSion (APXS) tool for building third-party modules as DSO
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/README.DSO
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/support/
+
+ Additional support tools: apachectl, ab (ApacheBench), dbmmanage
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/support/
+
+ Enhanced configuration support: Include and Line-Continuation
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
+
o New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic
+
o Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_alias
+
+ Overhauled and enhanced URL Rewriting Engine
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite
+
o Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling
+
o Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access
+
o Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhost/index
+
o Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
+
+ Various Proxy Enhancements (NoProxy, ProxyDomain, ProxyPassReverse)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_proxy
+
o Various internal performance improvements
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
+
o Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/mod/core#hostnamelookups
+
o Various Directory Indexing enhancements
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex
+
o Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_log_custom
+
o Unique Identifiers
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id
+
o Source tree reorganization
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg
+
+ Big Symbol Renaming to avoid symbol clashes with third-party code
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg
+
o API Additions
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
+ Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of
+ 1996. The Web Server Survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/)
+ found that more web servers were using Apache than any other software.
Apache
+ and its derivatives are run on over 50% of all web domains on the Internet.
+
+ The Apache project has been organized to provide an open-source, secure,
+ efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with
the
+ current HTTP standards. For more information about the Apache project check
+ out http://www.apache.org/.
+
