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Apache Server Nears 2.0

Posted by krow on from the are-we-there-yet dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Apache httpd project has released a new beta of their apache 2.0 server (v32)". For those who have not been following the 2.0 development, this is the third beta that has been produced. The new version of Apache sports the new APR API and a new method for filtered I/O, and has been rewritten to make use of a hybrid thread/process model. With Covalent already selling a commercial version of 2.0, hopefully we will see a full release of the open source version in the near future.

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  1. perchild MPM by slamb · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm a little disappointed by Apache 2.0 so far.

    I've been looking forward to the perchild MPM. It can run different server processes under different UID/GIDs. This is important because mod_{perl,php,python,snake} run in-process with the Apache server. It's the only way to run them securely for different people other than a completely seperate webserver for each person (with its own IP address, configuration file, memory footprint, etc.)

    But perchild doesn't really work:

    • It's not portable to non-Linux platforms. (There was talk on the mailing list of marking it experimental because of this.)
    • It hasn't compiled (even on Linux) out of the box in several releases. In 2.0.29, easy to fix but still doesn't work right. (Not compiling is a sure sign it hasn't been maintained.) Not quite as easy on 2.0.32. There's a patch, but it doesn't look right to me.
    • It's easy to misconfigure it into running virtual hosts as root. (Bug report)

    So, Apache 2.0 may be promising in the future...but when a feature I've been looking forward to for a long time is broken, I'm kind of disappointed.