brian 98/05/11 22:23:22
Modified:htdocs/manual/misc compat_notes.html
Log:
Updated, cleaned up, and tossed out comments dealing with decades-old
Apache versions.
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-While Apache 0.8.x and beyond are for the most part a drop-in
-replacement for NCSA's httpd and earlier versions of Apache, there are
-a couple gotcha's to watch out for. These are mostly due to the fact
-that the parser for config and access control files was rewritten from
-scratch, so certain liberties the earlier servers took may not be
-available here. These are all easily fixable. If you know of other
-non-fatal problems that belong here, http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html";>let us know.
-Please also check the known bugs
-page, and the known client
-problems page.
+Please also check the known
+client problems page.
-
-
-
The basic mod_auth AuthGroupFile-specified group file
-format allows commas between user names - Apache does not.
-- added 12/1/96
-
-
- If you follow the NCSA guidelines for setting up access restrictions
- based on client domain, you may well have added entries for,
- AuthType, AuthName, AuthUserFile or
AuthGroupFile.
- None of these are needed (or appropriate) for restricting
access
- based on client domain.
-
- When Apache sees AuthType it (reasonably) assumes you
- are using some authorization type based on username and password.
-
- Please remove AuthType, it's unnecessary even for NCSA.
-
-
-
- AuthUserFile requires a full pathname. In earlier
- versions of NCSA httpd and Apache, you could use a filename
- relative to the .htaccess file. This could be a major security hole,
- as it made it trivially easy to make a ".htpass" file in the a
- directory easily accessible by the world. We recommend you store
- your passwords outside your document tree.
-
-
-
- OldScriptAlias is no longer supported.
-
-
-
- exec cgi="" produces reasonable malformed
header
- responses when used to invoke non-CGI scripts.
- The NCSA code ignores the missing header. (bad idea)
- Solution: write CGI to the CGI spec or use exec cmd=""
instead.
- We might add virtual support to exec cmd to
- make up for this difference.
-
-
-
- silliness - in the old Apache 0.6.5, a
- directive of would also restrict POST methods - Apache
0.8.8's new
- core is correct in not presuming a limit on a GET is the same limit on a
POST,
- so if you are relying on that behavior you need to change your access
configurations
- to reflect that.
-
-
-
- Icons for FancyIndexing broken - well, no, they're not broken,
- we've just upgraded the
- icons from flat .xbm files to pretty and much smaller .gif files, courtesy
of
-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Kevin Hughes at
-http://www.eit.com/";>EIT.
- If you are using the same srm.conf from an old distribution, make sure
- you add the new
- AddIcon,
- AddIconByType,
- and
- DefaultIcon
- directives.
-
-
-
- Under IRIX, the "Group" directive in httpd.conf needs to be a
- valid group name
- (i.e., "nogroup") not the numeric group ID. The distribution
- httpd.conf, and earlier ones, had the default Group be "#-1", which
- was causing silent exits at startup.
-
-.asis files: Apache 0.6.5 did not require a Status header;
-it added one automatically if the .asis file contained a Location header.
-0.8.14 requires a Status header.
-
-
- Apache versions before 1.2b1 will ignore the last line of configuration
- files if the last line does not have a trailing newline. This affects
- configuration files (httpd.conf, access.conf and srm.conf), and
- htpasswd and htgroup files.
-
-
- Apache does not permit commas delimiting the methods in .
-
- Apache's treats all addresses as
- "optional" (i.e. the server should continue booting if it can't resolve
- the address). Whereas in NCSA the default is to fail booting unless
- an added optional keyword is included.
-
- Apache does not implement OnDeny use
- ErrorDocument
- instead.
-
- Apache (as of 1.3) always performs the equivalent of
- HostnameLookups minimal. minimal is not an
- option to
- HostnameLookups.
-
- To embed spaces in directive arguments NCSA used a backslash
- before the space. A
