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Modified: . README.NT Log: Clean up some of the information and merge the warning from WARNING-NT.TXT. Revision Changes Path 1.12 +33 -21 apache-1.3/README.NT Index: README.NT =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-1.3/README.NT,v retrieving revision 1.11 retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.11 -r1.12 --- README.NT 1998/05/30 12:57:48 1.11 +++ README.NT 1998/09/20 06:22:46 1.12 @@ -1,61 +1,73 @@ - Apache for Windows - Version 1.3 (and up) + Apache for Windows + Version 1.3 (and up) What is it? ----------- Apache is an HTTP server, originally designed for Unix systems. This -is the first release of Apache for Windows systems. Like the Unix -version, it includes many frequently requested new features, and has -an API which allows it to be extended to meet users' needs more -easily. It also allows ISAPI extensions. +is the first major release of Apache for Windows systems, including +Microsoft Windows NT, 98, and 95. Like the Unix version, it includes +many frequently requested new features, and has an API that allows it +to be extended to meet users' needs more easily. It also allows ISAPI +extensions. Documentation ------------- The documentation available as of the date of this release is also -included, in HTML format, in the htdocs/manual/ directory. For the -most up-to-date documentation, visit us on the WWW, at -http://www.apache.org/. For Windows specific information, see -http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html. +included, in HTML format, in the <./htdocs/manual/> directory. +For the most up-to-date documentation, visit us on the WWW at +<http://www.apache.org/>. For Windows specific information, see +<http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html>. WARNING ------- -Apache on NT has not yet been optimized for performance. Apache still +Apache on Win32 has not yet been optimized for performance. Apache still performs best, and is most reliable on Unix platforms. Over time we -will improve NT performance. Folks doing comparative reviews of -webserver performance are asked to compare against Apache on a Unix +will improve performance for Windows NT. Folks doing comparative reviews +of webserver performance are asked to compare against Apache on a Unix platform such as Solaris, FreeBSD, or Linux. +Apache on Win32 should still be considered beta quality code. It does not +meet the normal standards of stability and security that Unix releases do. +There is also a much greater chance of security holes being present in the +Win32 version of Apache, due to the frequent discrepancies between the public +documentation for the various Windows system calls and file system types +and the reality of what is included in Windows system software. + Installation or Compilation Instructions ---------------------------------------- -See the file http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html for details of +See the website <http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html> for details of how to install Apache from a binary release or how to compile Apache -from scratch. (This file is also available as -htdocs/manual/windows.html in either a source or binary distribution). +from scratch. This file is also included in the distribution as +<./htdocs/manual/windows.html>. Known Problems -------------- +To get information about the current set of known problems, see our +online bug reporting database at <http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html>. +In particular, search for problem reports under the category "os-windows". + +This is a rough list of what we know has not been implemented on Win32. + - The User directive is not supported. If you run apache as a service, you can change the user it runs as by going to Control Panel->Services->Startup - suexec doesn't work -- RFC 1413 not yet ported +- RFC 1413 (IdentityCheck) is not yet ported - If you have a very busy server, when a server child process exits, any connections made to that child process that have not yet been accepted by it are aborted. - -- Problem with very long running cgi scripts (their output is garbled?) -- regex does not generate *.ih headers. +- The regex library build does not generate *.ih headers. -- Multithreadng is not properly abstracted +- Multithreading is not properly abstracted - htpasswd passwords are stored in plain text because Windows lacks a crypt() function
