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Remarks/Error |
| XX |
COMMENT
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| 23-26 |
Those long dashes that appear on page 23-26 are actually two dashes, not a single long dash. That will be clear to folks used to running configure scripts, but may be confusing if this is your first time.
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| 29 |
The command line at the bottom of the page - cat
/usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid | xargs kill - could stand to
have a little more explanation. The file
/usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid contains the process ID
number - or "pid" - of the Apache process. The cat command
prints the contents of a file. And the xargs command feeds
it's input, as command line arguments, to whatever command is specified.
Thus, this command sequence kills whatever process is identified by the
pid in the specified file - that is, it kills the Apache parent process.
Note that this will leave all the child processes still going, so this
is not likely to actually do you much good.
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| 36 |
There is, of course, no CD that accompanies the book. You will need to get the
documentation from the Apache web site, at httpd.apache.org/docs
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| 47 |
Typesetting problem here. In the General Syntax section:
1) There should be a newline after option and before Prepending
2) [ps] should have been replaced with + (a plus sign) during typesetting.
3) The ñ should have been replaced with - (a minus sign) during typesetting.
|
| 49 |
Punctuation: There should be a close parenthesis at the end of the line,
near the bottom of the page, that reads "... indicated with the
DirectoryIndex directive."
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| 57 |
The example starting with gunzip < webmin ... should all be in monospace font.
These are actual commands you will type at the command line.
Also, the path specified for the configuration and log files does not contain a hyphen
between web and min. That was an unfortunate place for
a linebreak.
|
| 75 |
In the example accompanying the Limit directive, although it does not make
any difference to the actual configuration, it may make more sense if the example were
listed in an alternate order, thus:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from yourcompany.com
|
| 107 |
More
of an ommission than an error. I feel a little bad about how little
time was given to mod_rewrite. It is a very important
module, and asked about all the time on both IRC and Usenet, and it
got a bit of a shameful treatment here. I will attempt to add a bonus
chapter here on the web site in the near future to correct this ommission. |
| 118 |
Accessing a directory with no index.html file, and with
Options Indexes not turned on will, of course, not give
you a 404 Not Found error, but a 403
Forbidden error, and give you a message like You don't
have permission to access /foo on this server.
|
| 127 |
In the section about VersionSort the last sentence may be a
little clearer if we replace the phrase "even though it was an earlier
version of the file" with "even though the file version order is the
other way around."
|
| 145 |
In the next-to-last paragraph of the section on
MaxRequestsPerChild, should read "... when a configuration file
changes ..."
|
| 153 |
The correct syntax for disabling AllowOverride is None, not off. |
| 154 |
In the section on Process Creation, when discussing
MaxRequestsPerChild, the font makes it unclear what the
default value is. The default value is 0 (the number zero) not O (the
letter oh).
|
| 166 |
The second paragraph on this page may be clearer if introduced with the
clause "Prior to client-side image maps, ..."
|
| 199 |
The first line on this page should refer to the XBitHack
directive, rather than XVitHack.
|
| 219 |
The last paragraph of the Example mod_perl Handlers section
should refer to the line use warnings;, rather than
use warning;.
On that same page, in the last line, it's should be its.
|
| 250 |
In the last paragraph on this page, "reside the behind firewall" should
read "reside behind the firewall."
|
| 251 |
In the very last line of this page, the ambiguous "it" should be "this
user account".
|
| 257 |
In the third paragraph, "exasperated" should probably be "exacerbated",
although I do find myself frequently exasperated by some precompiled
Apache binaries.
|
| 258 |
In the section titled Cautious Server-Side Includes Usage, "can
be called any non-executable ..." should read "can be called by any
non-executable ..."
|
| 289 |
To get pedantic, the AuthName in the example should be
"Apache Admin Handbook Authors". The book changed name a
few times during the writing process. ;-)
|
| 292 |
In the final URL given in the How Digest Authentication Works
section, a space has been inserted where one should not be. The correct
url, sans space, is http://userpages.umbc.edu/mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html.
|
| 299 |
The example UP address and host name given in the deny from
examples should probably be changed out for better examples, such as
10.20.30.40 and hostname.example.com. The
examples used are real addresses, and might make certain people unhappy
if you were to use them on your web site.
|
| 302 |
MIT Laboratory for Coumputer Science should be Computer instead. |
| 328 |
The quote from Aristophanes should have him asking to whet his brain with
wine, not wet it, which would require rather painful surgery. Also, it is
generally accepted to spell his name Aristophanes rather than Aristophanies.
|
| 333 |
The example CustomLog directive has a stray backslash in it
in the path of the access log. Should read
/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
|
| 345 |
The code listed for the Logfile::Rotate script is not correct. I fear it got screwed up in typesetting. Anyways, you should have something more like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Logfile::Rotate;
for (qw(access_log error_log)) {
my $log = new Logfile::Rotate( File => "/usr/local/apache/logs/$_",
Count => 5,
Gzip => 'lib',
Dir => '/usr/local/apache/logs',
Flock => 'yes',
Persist => 'yes',
);
# process log file
$log->rotate();
}
qx(/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart);
Note that I've moved the apachectl restart out of the loop. In the other version, you'd end up restarting the server several times, which is a little overkill. Note also that you can add as many log files as you want to that list, if you want to rotate log files for other vhosts as well.
|
| 366 |
SSL/TLS
is not turned on by default in Apache 2.0. To turn on SSL, you need
to add the --enable-ssl option when you configure
your installation. |
| 370 |
I'd like to replace the phrase "a different set of programmers" with "a
different set of developers" so as not to leave the documentation people
out of that class.
Also, in the footnote, that should read "mod_ssl is distributed with",
now that 2.0 is released.
|
| 392 |
The
example of a form handler given in the appendix does not handle file
upload at all. If you care about file upload, you may need a modified
function instead of this one. For one such example of this, see my posting to the mod_perl mailing
list on this topic. |
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Cooper McGregor offers
training courses, not cources. Also, Rich is not exactly
the founding member of the LPLUG.
Just one of them. |