Apache Server Unleashed - Errata

If you find any errors in the book, or feel that something really important has been ommitted, please let us know. You can send us email at <Authors@ApacheUnleashed.com>. Thanks!

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Ironically, the paragraph telling you where to find errata has an error. It reads

You can contact the authors and find errata for the book (http://www.ApacheUnleashed.com/) shortly after the book is available in stores.

This should read

You can contact the authors and find errata for the book at http://www.ApacheUnleashed.com/ shortly after the book is available in stores.

Of course, since you're looking at the site right now, apparently you figured out what we meant.

13 While not actually an error or omission, it's worth pointing out under the Recent Happenings heading that the first alpha release of the Apache Web server 2.0 was released in front of a live audience on 10 March 2000, at the ApacheCon 2000 conference in Orlando, Florida, USA.

When you telnet to the WWW.ApacheUnleashed.Com site, and enter the 'GET /index.html' line, you will see some HTML scroll past, all right, and it will look like an error message about your request. But it isn't.

What you will see is the result of a restriction placed on requests to keep the server from being indiscriminately hammered by Web crawlers. However, the example was productive, since you did engage in an HTTP conversation with the server. If you want to see the real front page of the site this way, I am afraid you will have to type four lines instead of just one. For example,

    telnet www.apacheunleashed.com
    Trying 204.146.167.214...
    Connected to www.apacheunleashed.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.apacheunleashed.com
    User-agent: telnet
    Connection: close

followed by a blank line.

121 In the discussion of the Require directive, in the last bullet on the page, the keyword 'valid-users' is incorrect; it should be 'valid-user'. (Thanks to Martin Cloutier!)

155 In the last paragraph on the page, the 'mod negotiation' term is missing an underbar; it should be 'mod_negotiation'. In addition, the cross-reference to Chapter 21 is incorrect; the mod_negotiation section is in Chapter 20 on page 429.

157 In the sixth paragraph, "outside and ... containers" should be "outside any ... containers".

419 The FancyIndexing directive is deprecated in favour of IndexOptions FancyIndexing.

420

Table 20.10 is missing the DescriptionWidth keyword description (it was added in a version of Apache released after the chapter was written). The following text applies:

DescriptionWidth Specifies the width of the description column in characters. If the value is *, the column is automatically sized to the length of the longest description in the display. Note: Since descriptions may contain HTML tags, setting a specific width may result in a truncated HTML tag and unpredictable display results.

420 The description of the SuppressColumnSorting keyword is incorrect; the meaning is inverted. Presence of the keyword prevents the column headings from being links for sorting the display.

421 The note about mod_dir is misleading. The functionality provided by mod_dir allows the Webmaster to cause arbitrary output to be displayed instead of the directory listing. The output need not be a file listing at all.

424 There are certain response header fields that cannot be set, altered, or unset by the Header directive. The Server header field is an example.

430 The mod_rewrite guide is now on the Apache site at <http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html>.

540

The various Apache mailing lists have been moved from management by the Majordomo software to EZMLM instead, which has different subscription procedures. Replace the lines at the bottom of the page with the following:

    To: stable-testers-subscribe@apache.org
    Subject: joining stable-testers list

    any message text is ignored; a blank message is fine

548 The form of the Apache licence listed on page 548 is version 1.0. Version 1.1 of the licence refers to the Apache Software Foundation, has had the final paragraph modified, and clauses 4 and 6 have been altered.

551 Version 2.0a1 (the first alpha release) of the Apache Web server was announced at ApacheCon 2000 in Orlando, Florida, USA, on 10 March 2000.

614-615 In the index, almost all references to the Apache modules are missing the underbar (e.g., "mod access" instead of "mod_access").

Apache Modules

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