The power and flexibility of Apache have made it the most popular web server on the Internet. Now, after three years of development, the Apache Software Foundation has released Apache 2.0.
With the introduction of OS-specific Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) and the Apache Portable Runtime, Apache 2.0 runs on more platforms with greater ease. Apache 2.0 brings a significant revision of the Apache build system, a more powerful architecture, and numerous improvements and additions to modules and directives. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all that is new in Apache 2.0, together with the most recent enhancements to Apache 1.3. New capabilities, support for embedded scripting, performance tuning, monitoring, and server security are presented in focused, easily applied sections. What does this book cover?
- The Apache 2.0 web server, including upgrades and updates from Apache 1.3
- New features in Apache 1.3, and migration of Apache 1.3 servers to Apache 2.0
- Installing Apache from a binary distribution or building from source for UNIX and Windows
- Delivering dynamic content efficiently and securely with CGI and FastCGI
- Virtual hosting with Apache - simple, complex, and en masse
- Proxying and caching, fault tolerance and clustering, and benchmarking of Apache servers
- Monitoring and securing Apache servers
- Extending Apache with third-party modules for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Java, Ruby, and WebDAV
Peter Wainwright is a freelance developer and software consultant. He got his first taste of programming on a BBC Micro and gained most of his early programming experience in C on Solaris. He then discovered Linux, shortly followed by Perl and Apache, and has been happily programming there ever since.
Outside the software industry, he is a partner of Space Future Consulting, an international space tourism consultancy firm.He is also an advisor to the board of one or two companies engaged in space tourism and vehicle development. If you have $50m to spare, he would like to have a word with you.
As well as being the primary author of Professional Perl Programming, he is author of Professional Apache (ISBN: 1861003021), also published by Wrox Press, as well as contributing author to Beginning Perl (ISBN: 1861003145). Formerly based in London, he recently moved from England to Upper West Side of New York to be with his new wife, a professional editor, whom he met through a mutual interest in space tourism and low-rent apartments.
