http://apache.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2008-04-20T08:50:20+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://apache.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/264593191/article.pl os2man writes "ApacheCon Europe 2008, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation will be held 7 April through 11 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of the tracks will be broadcast via live streaming: System Administration (Wednesday), Web Security (Thursday) and Web Services and Web 2.0 (Friday). There's a 99 euro registration fee for the tracks, although all keynote sessions and the opening plenary are available free of charge."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/04/05/144248"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=MvAvQs"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=MvAvQs" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/264593191" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2008-04-05T14:34:00+00:00 security three-of-you-will-watch apache 17 17,16,14,12,6,2,2 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/251972147/article.pl SkiifGeek writes "Zone-H have recently posted the statistical breakdown of the collected website defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more Apache installations were successfully attacked than all IIS versions combined. A day after posting this data, Zone-H have questioned the appropriateness of continuing to operate the archive. Despite the valuable information that can be gleaned from the service, it may soon be lost to the world. The natural successor to the now-defunct Alldas archive of defaced websites, Zone-H's archive maintains records of over 2.6 million defaced sites but may be shut down due to the continuous accusations of impropriety leveled against them any time they disclose and mirror a reported defacement."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/03/15/1246248"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=P0KWPO"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=P0KWPO" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/251972147" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2008-03-15T13:53:00+00:00 security something-to-think-about apache 203 203,181,164,127,40,23,18 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/222476473/article.pl lisah writes "Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is infected is if you're unable to create a directory name beginning with a numeral. Since details are still sketchy, the best advice right now is to take proactive steps to secure your servers. 'We asked the Apache Software Foundation if it had any advice on how to detect the rootkit or cleanse a server when it's found. According to Mark Cox of the Apache security team, "Whilst details are thin as to how the attackers gained root access to the compromised servers, we currently have no evidence that this is due to an unfixed vulnerability in the Apache HTTP Server." We sent a similar query to Red Hat, the largest vendor of Linux, but all its security team could tell us was that "At this point in time we have not had access to any affected machines and therefore cannot give guidance on which tools would reliably detect the rootkit."'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/1930207&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/01/24/1930207"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/1930207&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=6OSmt9"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=6OSmt9" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/222476473" height="1" width="1"/> Zonk 2008-01-24T19:46:00+00:00 security duck-and-cover-like-tommy-the-turtle it 437 437,426,342,250,73,48,33 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/1930207&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/201443461/article.pl jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/12/17/0255251"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=RvXB3c"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=RvXB3c" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/201443461" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2007-12-17T03:08:00+00:00 yahoo confluence-of-interests apache 110 110,98,77,53,22,12,9 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/141225590/article.pl benjymouse quotes this month's netcraft survey "In the August 2007 survey we received responses from 127,961,479 sites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month. Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames. As a result, Windows improves its market share by 1.4% to 34.2%, while Apache slips by 1.7% to 48.4%. Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/138220&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/08/06/138220"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/138220&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=2duZT9"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=2duZT9" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/141225590" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2007-08-06T14:16:00+00:00 microsoft trolls-rejoice-in-netcraft-story apache 666 666,654,547,407,95,50,35 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/138220&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/123298806/article.pl eldavojohn writes "According to Google, Microsoft's server software is at least twice as likely to host viruses or malware. The reason why? 'Google reports that IIS is likely used to distribute malware more often than Apache because many IIS installs are on pirated Windows versions which aren't configured to automatically download patches. (Even pirated Windows versions can automatically receive security fixes, however.) Our analysis demonstrates how important it is to keep web servers patched to the latest patch level,' Google notes."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/1745208&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/06/08/1745208"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/1745208&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=7m5h13"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=7m5h13" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/123298806" height="1" width="1"/> Zonk 2007-06-08T18:22:00+00:00 security consider-the-source it 163 163,162,130,92,19,7,5 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/1745208&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/121352438/article.pl An anonymous reader writes "The most notable changes found in this latest draft include making GPLv3 compatible with version 2.0 of the Apache license, ensuring that distributors who make discriminatory patent deals after March 28 may not convey software under GPLv3, adding terms to clarify how users can contract for private modification of free software or for a data center to run it for them, and replacing the previous reference to a U.S. consumer protection statute with explicit criteria for greater clarity outside the United States. The draft also does not prohibit Novell from distributing software under GPLv3 'because the patent protection they arranged with Microsoft last November can be turned against Microsoft to the community's benefit,' FSF executive director Peter Brown said."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/01/055243&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/06/01/055243"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/01/055243&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=GTxytV"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=GTxytV" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/121352438" height="1" width="1"/> CowboyNeal 2007-06-01T11:19:00+00:00 gnu wading-through-legalese apache 237 237,233,196,154,38,21,14 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/01/055243&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/120053620/article.pl An anonymous reader writes "As the load on an application increases, the bottlenecks in the underlying infrastructure become more apparent in the form of slow response to user requests. This article discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application's performance and focuses on steps you can take to optimize Apache and PHP."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/27/1243236&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/05/27/1243236"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/27/1243236&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=JuvS4u"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=JuvS4u" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/120053620" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2007-05-27T14:32:00+00:00 php wouldn't-it-be-nice-if-we-were-faster developers 191 191,186,147,104,34,18,13 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/27/1243236&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/117783247/article.pl Famestay writes "Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable vulnerability in six critical Internet infrastructure applications. The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies: Apache httpd, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon, Sendmail SMTP daemon, OpenSSH sshd, Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. 'Immunity founder Dave Aitel, who also purchases flaws and exploits for use in the CANVAS pen testing tool, says its doubtful iDefense will get any submissions from hackers. "It's very hard to exploit [those listed applications]," Aitel said. "IIS 6 hasn't had a public remotely exploitable bug in it. Ever." Several other hackers I spoke to had very much the same message, arguing that $16,000 can never equate to the amount of work/expertise required to find and exploit a hole in the six targeted technologies.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/189208&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/05/18/189208"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/189208&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=6cJKbr"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=6cJKbr" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/117783247" height="1" width="1"/> Zonk 2007-05-18T19:05:00+00:00 security step-right-up-rilly-big-shew it 173 173,168,131,90,41,19,14 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/189208&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/90363735/article.pl tbray writes "This is your friendly local Sun corporate drone reporting that we're going to be building and optimizing and DTrace-ing and shipping and supporting the AMP part of LAMP (details here). I think that basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/02/13/197252"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=cJEZ8t"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=cJEZ8t" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/90363735"/> kdawson 2007-02-13T20:24:00+00:00 sun LAMP=~s/L/S/ apache 135 135,131,100,64,23,12,6 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/89833711/article.pl An anonymous reader writes "Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets &mdash; both open source and proprietary &mdash; to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Mash Apache Derby with a new OpenOffice 2.0 feature to create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1553211&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/02/12/1553211"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1553211&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=fyWggg"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=fyWggg" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/89833711"/> Hemos 2007-02-12T16:34:00+00:00 programming doing-the-mash-ups developers 52 52,50,39,28,13,9,8 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1553211&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/57100839/article.pl produke writes "Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/1342242&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=06/12/04/1342242"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/1342242&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=CPtTIz"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=CPtTIz" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/57100839"/> Hemos 2006-12-04T14:24:00+00:00 internet faster-faster-faster apache 29 29,29,24,20,11,8,4 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/1342242&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/6531678/article.pl Lam1969 writes "Linux geeks and Microsoft have similar interests, says Computerworld: They both are interested in seeing open-source software succeed. Linux geeks admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications, and Microsoft recognizes that many of its customers are using open-source applications, and doesn't want to alienate them." From the article: "Faced with the allure of inexpensive open-source applications among its core customer base of small to midsize businesses, Microsoft has toned down its rhetoric. 'It's a myth that open-source and Windows can't work together. Customers just aren't religious about these things,' said Ryan Gavin, a director of platform strategy for Microsoft."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1439209&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=06/07/28/1439209"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1439209&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=V3cWFJ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=V3cWFJ" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/6531678"/> Zonk 2006-07-28T16:24:00+00:00 microsoft don't-forget-the-tm-after-thing linux 351 351,349,313,227,46,23,15 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1439209&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/76627634/article.pl Doctor Memory writes "Netcraft's June 2006 web server survey is out, and it shows IIS taking a dramatic upturn, at the expense of Apache. One of the biggest reasons cited is domain registrar Go Daddy switching to IIS for the domains it "parks". The report does go on to note that IIS is also making solid gains in active sites (including some large blog hosts), and further notes that it appears that large hosting companies are dropping Linux." Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's market share is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/1444205&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=06/06/08/1444205"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/1444205&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=R3T7it"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=R3T7it" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76627634"/> timothy 2006-06-08T15:39:00+00:00 internet falling-sky-repair-dirt-cheap apache 282 282,280,230,151,48,29,12 http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/1444205&from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~3/76521291/article.pl Here's a man who obviously has his finger on the pulse of open source software development. I mean, who hasn't heard of Apache? His work history is interesting, too: He's moved from Microsoft to CollabNet to Google. And he's not shy about speaking his mind about open source, as shown in this ZDNet blog entry. Please try to confine yourself to one question per post. (If you have more than one question, post more than once.) We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Greg tomorrow and run his answers when we get them back.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1427238&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=06/03/28/1427238"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1427238&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=ZCSQgr"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=ZCSQgr" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76521291"/> Roblimo 2006-03-28T16:20:00+00:00 apache many-feathers-in-his-cap interviews 117 117,113,89,55,20,15,10 http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1427238&from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://apache.slashdot.org/search.pl