Apache Week Features:

Security levels

A quick summary of security levels that Apache Week apply to Apache web server vulnerabilities

Vendor patches to Apache 1.3

We take a peek inside ten popular vendor distributions of Apache 1.3 to find out what has been added

Apache 2.0.44 Released

Apache 2.0.44 was released on the 21st January 2003. This release addresses recent security issues in Apache 2.0.43

[Event] ApacheCon 2002 Las Vegas

Paul Weinstein visited the Las Vegas ApacheCon in November 2002 and gives his highlights of the interesting news and events

Apache 2.0.43 Released

Apache 2.0.43 was released on the 3rd October 2002. This release addresses recent security issues on non-Unix platforms, some minor bugs found in the 2.0.40 release, and adds some new features.

Apache 2.0.40 Released

Apache 2.0.40 was released on the 9th August 2002. This release addresses recent major security issues on non-Unix platforms, some minor bugs found in the 2.0.39 release, and adds some new features.

[Event] O'Reilly Open Source convention in San Diego

Paul Weinstein visited the five day O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego this week and gave his highlights of the interesting news and events

Apache 1.3.26 Released

Apache 1.3.26 was released on the 18th June 2002. This release addresses a recent security issue, some minor bugs found in the 1.3.24 release, and adds some new features.

Apache 2 Release

Apache 2 was released on the 6th April 2002; we look at the history of development on Apache 2.0 and features to help you use this new release

Apache 1.3.24 Released

Apache 1.3.24 was released on the 22nd March 2002. This release addresses a security flaw on Windows, some minor bugs found in the 1.3.23 release, and adds some new features.

Apache 1.3.23 Released

Apache 1.3.23 was released on the 24th January 2002. This release addresses some minor bugs found in the 1.3.22 release, and adds some new features, including HTTP/1.1 support for mod_proxy

Featured Articles 2001

Our selection of the best featured articles from our weekly newsletters. Read about everything from "Apache and Tomcat" to "Apache Security"

Apache 1.3.22 Released

Apache 1.3.22 was released on the 12th October 2001. This release addresses some security flaws, fixes minor bugs found in the 1.3.20 release, and adds some minor new features. Version 1.3.21 was not released.

Code Red requests for /default.ida

Don't panic if you see requests for the default.ida file in your Apache access logs. These requests are from the Code Red Worm designed to seek out vulnerable IIS servers.

[Event] O'Reilly Open Source convention in San Diego

Apache Week visited the five day O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego this week and found an overwhelming source of Apache information.

[Event] ApacheCon 2001 Dublin Cancelled

The ApacheCon Europe 2001 conference scheduled for Dublin in October has been cancelled, due to financial difficulties with Camelot Communications.

[Event] ApacheCon 2001 Conference Report

This is a special edition of Apache Week covering the April ApacheCon 2001 conference in Santa Clara.

Using Certificate Revocation Lists

Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) increase the security of Client Authentication Realms by enabling server administrators to block client certificates that have been revoked because they are known to have been compromised. Mike Leach and Tim Starr take a look at how to get CRLs working with mod_ssl and Apache.

Web Authoring and HTTP

Joe Orton explains WebDAV, the distributed authoring protocol for HTTP.

Apache in the News 2000

All the important news stories about Apache from the year 2000

[Event] ApacheCon 2000 Europe Conference Report

Report from the third Apache conference

What the Web Server Surveys Reveal

We look behind the headline figures of two popular web server surveys with an in-depth analysis of which Apache versions are being used and how long it takes the Apache community to adopt new releases.

[Event] ApacheCon 2000 Conference Report

Report from the second ever Apache conference

[Event] Appaloosa Awards 2000

The Appaloosa Awards were announced at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference this week. The winners included ASF members Ryan Bloom, Lars Eilebrecht, Roy Fielding, Doug McEachern, Dirk-Willem Van Guilik on behalf of Apache XML projects, and Rasmus Lerdorf on behalf of the PHP team.

Apache 2.0 Preview

A preview to development work on the next generation of Apache, version 2.0

Apache 1.3.6 Guide

A guide to everything new and changed in Apache 1.3.4

[Event] ApacheCon'98 Conference Report

Report from the first ever Apache conference

Apache and the Year 2000

How will Apache and the web in general cope with the year 2000?

Apache 1.2 API Guide

For module authors, a comprehensive list of changes to the Apache module API.

Apache 1.2 Guide

A guide to everything new and changed in Apache 1.2

Publishing Pages with PUT

Apache can support publishing pages with PUT, but it requires some work.

Dynamic Page Languages

From SSI to CGI via PHP and perl: which language should you use for your dynamic pages?

Apache and Secure Transactions

All about Apache and SSL, including US export restrictions, RSA licensing, ciphers, key escrow, certificates and authorities.

Gathering Visitor Information: Customising Your Logfiles

Apache 1.2 makes it easy to create multiple customised log files so you can record details of who is browser your site.

Hints and Tips

Apache Week regularily contains information about how to get the most out of the Apache server. To save you having to wade through all the past issues, here is a summary of the hints and tips we've carried, plus a few more for good measure.

DBM User Authentication

With more than a few users, keeping user passwords in a .htpasswd file can get inefficient and slow down page accesses considerable. DBM user files let sites efficiently store many tens or thousands of users (or more) with very quick access. This feature explains what DBM is, and how to use it with Apache.

Using Apache Imagemaps

Imagemaps are an easy way to provide an graphical front-end. We explain how to use Apache's imagemap module and the Apache extensions to the NCSA map file format.

Using User Authentication

Restrict your documents to people with a valid username and password.

Converting from NCSA

The differences between Apache and NCSA HTTPd. Also, how to convert an existing NCSA HTTPd installation over to Apache.

Apache 1.1.1 bugs review

A round-up of all the bugs in 1.1.1

Module Soup

Customise Apache to do what you want it to do by adding in extra modules, or remove modules you do not need.

Using Virtual Hosts

How to obtain and set up virtual hosts.

New in Apache 1.2

All about what is coming up in Apache 1.2

HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 is a major revision of the HTTP standard, which defines how browsers, servers and proxies communicate.

Using Server Side Includes

Server Side Includes make adding dynamic content to your documents easy. We show how to use SSI on your site, and the extensions that Apache supports.

Content Negotiation

How to use Apache's content negotiation to transparently serve files in different languages, media types or character sets.