Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since 1996. The Apache project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
What"s New:
- SECURITY: CAN-2004-0493 (cve.mitre.org) Close a denial of service vulnerability identified by Georgi Guninski which could lead to memory exhaustion with certain input data. [Jeff Trawick]
- mod_cgi: Handle output on stderr during script execution on Unix platforms; preventing deadlock when stderr output fills pipe buffer. Also fixes case where stderr from nph- scripts could be lost. PR 22030, 18348. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
- mod_alias now emits a warning if it detects overlapping *Alias* directives. [André Malo]
- mod_rewrite no longer turns forward proxy requests into reverse proxy requests. PR 28125 [ast domdv.de, André Malo]