Apache has released version 2.4 of the popular Apache-based web server released; the first major update in six years. The new version should make it better with system resources that interact to help to be able to offer to nginx.
Although the Apache HTTP Server is by far the most popular web server, with name nginx increasingly used, not as a loadbalancer for an Apache installation. The latest version of Apache should provide a counterweight to the raft increased popularity of nginx; this version is going to be better use of system resources, promises the Apache Foundation.
Version 2.4 is the first major update in six years and comes from the seventeenth year that the web server software is developed. The software, originally a fork of a project of an American supercomputer institute, must not only cope with the system resources available, but there is also less of use and better support for caching. As a result, servers with a lot of traffic to perform better.
Furthermore, there are several new modules available, such as a number of add-ons for mod_proxy, official support for the programming language Lua and a module in which users can be authenticated via an html form. Previously, there was a Apache only support for authentication at protocol level is present and needed for authentication with input from html forms is a programming language or a third-party module to be used.
A number of included modules is updated. As has mod_ssl as of now support for checking client-side certificates using an ocsp server, and creating readable urls is facilitated by an update of mod_rewrite. With the updated version of that module can, for example, rewrite-mappings are generated based on sql queries.
From now on you can multi-processing-modules in addition, during the start of the web server to be selected; previously this had this in the build process to be enabled or disabled. The new version can be downloaded under an Apache 2.0 license.
