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diff --git a/usr.sbin/httpd/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html b/usr.sbin/httpd/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html deleted file mode 100644 index a2932f0987c..00000000000 --- a/usr.sbin/httpd/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,135 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> - <head> - <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> - - <title>Apache HTTP Server: Notes about Compatibility with - NCSA's Server</title> - </head> - <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> - - <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" - vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000"> - <div align="CENTER"> - <img src="../images/sub.gif" alt="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]" /> - - <h3>Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3</h3> - </div> - - - <h1 align="CENTER">Compatibility Notes with NCSA's Server</h1> - <hr /> - While Apache is for the most part a drop-in replacement for - NCSA's httpd, there are a couple gotcha's to watch out for. - These are mostly due to the fact that the parser for config and - access control files was rewritten from scratch, so certain - liberties the earlier servers took may not be available here. - These are all easily fixable. If you know of other problems - that belong here, <a - href="http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html">let us know.</a> - - - <p>Please also check the <a - href="known_client_problems.html">known client problems</a> - page.</p> - - <ol> - <li>As of Apache 1.3.1, methods named in a <a - href="../mod/core.html#limit"><samp><Limit></samp></a> - section <em>must</em> be listed in upper-case. Lower- or - mixed-case method names will result in a configuration - error.</li> - - <li>The basic mod_auth <code>AuthGroupFile</code>-specified - group file format allows commas between user names - Apache - does not.</li> - - <li>If you follow the NCSA guidelines for setting up access - restrictions based on client domain, you may well have added - entries for <code>AuthType, AuthName, AuthUserFile</code> or - <code>AuthGroupFile</code>. <strong>None</strong> of these - are needed (or appropriate) for restricting access based on - client domain. When Apache sees <code>AuthType</code> it - (reasonably) assumes you are using some authorization type - based on username and password. Please remove - <code>AuthType</code>, it's unnecessary even for NCSA.</li> - - <li><code>OldScriptAlias</code> is no longer supported.</li> - - <li><code>exec cgi=""</code> produces reasonable - <strong>malformed header</strong> responses when used to - invoke non-CGI scripts.<br /> - The NCSA code ignores the missing header (bad idea).<br /> - Solution: write CGI to the CGI spec and use - <code>include virtual</code>, or use <code>exec - cmd=""</code> instead.</li> - - <li>Icons for FancyIndexing broken - well, no, they're not - broken, we've just upgraded the icons from flat .xbm files to - pretty and much smaller .gif files, courtesy of <a - href="mailto:kevinh@eit.com">Kevin Hughes</a> at <a - href="http://www.eit.com/">EIT</a>. If you are using the same - srm.conf from an old distribution, make sure you add the new - <a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addicon">AddIcon</a>, <a - href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addiconbytype">AddIconByType</a>, - and <a - href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#defaulticon">DefaultIcon</a> - directives.</li> - - <li>Apache versions before 1.2b1 will ignore the last line of - configuration files if the last line does not have a trailing - newline. This affects configuration files (httpd.conf, - access.conf and srm.conf), and htpasswd and htgroup - files.</li> - - <li>Apache does not permit commas delimiting the methods in - <Limit>.</li> - - <li>Apache's <code><VirtualHost></code> treats all - addresses as "optional" (<em>i.e.</em>, the server should - continue booting if it can't resolve the address). Whereas in - NCSA the default is to fail booting unless an added - <code>optional</code> keyword is included.</li> - - <li>Apache does not implement <code>OnDeny</code>; use <a - href="../mod/core.html#errordocument"><code>ErrorDocument</code></a> - instead.</li> - - <li>Apache (as of 1.3) always performs the equivalent of - <code>HostnameLookups minimal</code>. <code>minimal</code> is - not an option to <a - href="../mod/core.html#hostnamelookups"><code>HostnameLookups</code></a>.</li> - - <li>To embed spaces in directive arguments NCSA used a - backslash before the space. Apache treats backslashes as - normal characters. To embed spaces surround the argument with - double-quotes instead.</li> - - <li>Apache does not implement the NCSA <code>referer</code> - directive. See <a - href="http://bugs.apache.org/index/full/968">PR#968</a> for a - few brief suggestions on alternative ways to implement the - same thing under Apache.</li> - - <li>Apache does not allow ServerRoot settings inside a - VirtualHost container. There is only one global ServerRoot in - Apache; any desired changes in paths for virtual hosts need - to be made with the explicit directives, <em>e.g.</em>, - DocumentRoot, TransferLog, <em>etc.</em></li> - - <li>The <code>AddType</code> directive cannot be used to set - the type of particular files. Instead, you can scope you - directives using <Files> blocks.</li> - </ol> - More to come when we notice them.... - <hr /> - - <h3 align="CENTER">Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3</h3> - <a href="./"><img src="../images/index.gif" alt="Index" /></a> - <a href="../"><img src="../images/home.gif" alt="Home" /></a> - - </body> -</html> - |