Apache 2.0 Goes Gold!

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

Comments

Re:I'll poke...

[Raetsel]

Poke some more, you quit too soon.

• GET /article.pl?sid=02/04/06/0216250 HTTP/1.1
• HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a
  X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
  X-Fry: Where's Captain Bender? Off catastrophizing some other planet?

• GET /Slashdot/pc.gif?article,1018062768900 HTTP/1.1
• HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Apache/1.3.17 (Unix)

• GET /banner/cdig0001en.gif?1018062768915 HTTP/1.1
• HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Apache/2.0.35 (Unix)

Well, there's the first one at least. Looks like their banner ad server's on 2.0+. I don't feel like formatting the rest of the logfile, but there are a couple more in there.

Kiwi filesystem?

[KjetilK]

integrated SSL and WebDAV support

WebDAV seems great when you try to work with larger groups. While I do OK with FTP and similar stuff, I think it would be a nice feature to be able to mount a remote WebDAV directory, and it seems like this is available in the form of Kiwi Filesystem

Does anybody have any experience with this software? Has it been included in any distros?

Re:Better performance?

[jellomizer]

Well I decided to give a quick speed test. This is not scienctific Data I bet there are flaws in my testing and it is NOT REAL WORLD APPS. But my Test gave the results that Apache 2 is about 13% faster then 1.3.

This is what I did. On a Sun Ultra 10 I installed Apache 1.3 and 2.0 (Latest of both and compiled them using the same compilers)
port 80 was Apache 2.0
port 8080 was Apache 1.3

Then I used Lynx -dump http://localhost:0080 > /dev/null

and recorded the time it would take to do 3000 connections

then I did the same but on port 8080

and recorded the time

it took 2.28 for apache 2
2.63 for apache 1.3

so 2.0 is roughly 13% faster.

This was testing 1 connection at a time not multable connections.