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News from ApacheCon US 2002

Posted by michael on from the over-99-billion-served dept.

pdw writes "Apache Week this week has a feature detailing the happenings at last week's ApacheCon in Vegas. Read up to find out what's new in the world of Apache."

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  1. Re:Migrating to Apache 2.x by aqua · · Score: 5, Informative
    It wasn't that interactive of a session, but it went pretty well. The only two major reasons not to upgrade are that (1) most distros haven't adopted it as the stable-default yet, so you have to do the install by hand, and (2) using a threaded MPM you'll hit trouble if your CGIs depend on non-threadsafe libraries.

    This latter is still the major obstacle, since the number of third-party libraries used by (say) PHP is pretty large. You can eliminate the threaded-MPM obstacles by using the process-based prefork MPM, but you don't get some of apache2's performance improvements, especially on operating systems with slow, expensive forks (Solaris, Win32).