What's New
This page lists recent enhancements made to the HTTP Server for i along with what is new on the product's Web site.
September, 2006
HTTP Server (powered by Apache) now supports Apache 2.0.58
Software updates are now available for V5R3 and V5R4 to update the level of the IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) to the Apache Software Foundation's 2.0.58 server level. Apache 2.0.58 contains fixes and enhancements to the Apache release previously available on the i5/OS.
- V5R4 PTFs - Group PTF SF99114
- V5R3 PTFs - Group PTF SF99099
February, 2006
HTTP Server (powered by Apache) has new features for V5R4
HTTP Server (powered by Apache) is now a UTF-8 server. This means that requests are being received and then processed as UTF-8 rather than first being converted to EBCDIC and then processed. With this change, we have added some other exciting features, some listed below. For additional details, see the V5R4 documentation for HTTP Server.
- Porting open source modules to your IBM ® i5/OS system is now easier than in previous versions. Apache and HTTP APIs now handle data as UTF-8 rather than EBCDIC.
- Logs are now tagged with CCSID UTF8 (1208). All messages contained in custom, error, FRCA, and script logs are encoded in UTF8.
- CGI job handling is enhanced so that data is maintained in its original encoding until the CGI job is ready to be launched.
- New and existing directives have been enhanced so that CGI jobs can have unique CCSIDs as well as a conversion mode. This allows multiple applications to run in more than one language from a single Apache server.
- The new CGIJobCCSID directive sets the CGI job CCSID.
- The DefaultNetCCSID directive can now be specified within a container.
- The CGIJobLocale directive sets the locale environment variable for the CGI job to retrieve.
- QzsrGetEnvCCSID and QzsrPutEnvCCSID are new CGI APIs that allow the environment variable string to be encoded in a CCSID other than the job CCSID. QzhbCgiParse now sends error messages to the error log instead of the job log.
- The ldap.group.memberAttributes directive is enhanced to support all forms of LDAP groups; static, dynamic, nested, and hybrid.
- Support to activate the eWLM (Enterprise Workload Management) instrumentation module for HTTP Server (powered by Apache) has been added and can be configured using the IBM Web Administration for i5/OS interface.
September 1, 2005
HTTP Server for i (powered by Apache) now supports Apache 2.0.52
Software updates are now available for OS/400 V5R2 and V5R3 to update the level of the IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) to the Apache Software Foundation's 2.0.52 server level. Apache 2.0.52 contains fixes and enhancements to the Apache release previously available on the iSeries .
- V5R3 PTFs - Group PTF SF99099
- V5R2 PTFs - Group PTF SF99098
February, 2006
IBM Web Administration supports many Web technologies
The IBM Web Administration for i5/OS GUI provides a Web based server management and creation interface. Web Administration is rich in function, examples, error-checking, and provides many easy to use wizards to help users accomplish many difficult tasks. The GUI supports many different Web technologies and helps the user integrate these technologies into a useful production ready Web environment. The following Web technologies are supported:
- HTTP Server (powered by Apache)
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
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- Express/Base V5.0 and 5.1
- Express/Base/ND(stand alone only) V6.0
- IBM WebSphere Portal
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- IBM Workplace
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- Workplace Collaboration Services V2.5 and 2.6
- Workplace Services Express V2.5
February, 2006
The entire HTTP web site has been updated with a new tabbed format. Information has been updated and new topics added.
- Information pertaining to HTTP Server (Original) has been moved to a new section called Original
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