1 Apache HTTP Server 2.1 Documentation Status File.
2 Last modified: $Date: 2003/05/03 00:12:35 $
4 For more information on how to contribute to the Apache Documentation
5 Project, please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/
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12 - Backport removal of SSI from docs directory in default config
13 docs/conf/httpd-std.conf.in rev 1.36
14 docs/conf/httpd-win.conf rev 1.82
17 -Comment out .gz etc. AddEncoding lines in our default configuration.
18 docs/conf/httpd-std.conf.in rev 1.32
19 jerenkrantz said in the log message:
20 Current browsers have a tendency to decompress the data when no one
21 really wants it to do that. If you want the old behavior that leads to
22 transparent decompression by modern browsers, uncomment these lines.
23 But, this shouldn't be our default.
24 Someone else said: Certainly wasn't in 1.3.
25 nd adds: we should provide example solutions somewhere in the docs.
26 e.g.: .tar.gz should get the content-type application/x-gzip
27 (hmm, bad x-, better suggestions?).
35 - Figure out what to do about the 2.0 FAQ
36 - Copy important stuff from 1.3?
38 - Something that allows dynamic contributions from users a la
39 FAQ-O-Matic? (I don't think any really good software exists
41 - Perhaps we can use the newly created Wiki for this. (SubWiki,
42 with the possibility to get nice commit mails.)
43 nd: someone should try to convince me, what the heck is
45 erik: it lowers the entry barrier and therefore users are able to
46 contribute (handy for a FAQ, see PHP site)
47 nd: yes, good bad example. The PHP docs would mostly be
48 better without these comments. I don't want to censor
49 the entries, but also don't want to leave them without
50 control. IMHO it's better to incorporate changes into the
51 static docs. We need some better way of feedback, anyway.
53 Things That Need Fixing
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56 - Windows platform docs are in desperate need of rewrites/updates for 2.0.
57 - Bill Rowe and Bill Stoddard are good contacts for tech questions.
58 - "using apache" has been done, "compiling apache" is still open
59 - hints on uninstalling apache (exit monitor, close directories,
60 registry entries etc) (PR 10154)
61 - FAQ! UTF-8 config and URL encoding for non-ascii characters.
64 - Much clean-up and enhancement of aaa howto
65 - Independent note on how to upgrade to new auth system
68 - mod_suexec: very little documentation
69 - mod_proxy: updates for 2.0
70 - mod_status: updates for 2.0
71 - mod_example: updates for 2.0
72 - mod_rewrite: explain, when what variables are actually available
76 - Convert from nroff to our xml format. See list at bottom.
77 - Then if someone gets creative, they can try to find an automatic
78 way to convert back to nroff.
79 - An example: http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/db2man/
80 This is designed for docbook, but it could be adapted.
81 I'm not sure what the license is.
84 - explain what the following command line options do
85 (perhaps in the developer/debugging docs):
88 one-process-mode == no threads, i.e. only one
89 process handling the requests in a single loop?
90 -D NO_DETACH (not in every MPM avail.)
91 no daemon, but detached from terminal?
92 -D FOREGROUND (not in every MPM avail.)
95 - Individual docs will need some cleanup.
96 - misc/custom_errordocs.html needs to be updated to
97 essentially describe how the international error
98 docs included in 2.0 work
99 - misc/perf-tuning.html - needs major rewrite for 2.0
100 - misc/rewriteguide.html - needs cleaning in 1.3 and 2.0
101 - platform/ebcdic.xml - needs major rework for 2.0
104 - install.html has had a first-pass rewrite, it is basically
105 accurate, but very incomplete: many configure options are missing,
106 especially those inherited from apr.
109 - Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
110 - authn provider API documentation could be useful
112 - Several features in Apache require write-access to the filesystem.
113 Examples: CacheRoot, DavLockDB, ScriptLog
114 We should treat the things consistently in the docs, and perhaps
115 suggest the use of directory like /usr/local/apache2/var/ that is
118 - SSL docs are generally good, but they need a refreshing by someone
119 familiar with mod_ssl and openssl.
121 Documentation improvements
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124 * New user docs: Directory Handling (mod_dir/mod_autoindex/etc)
126 * Enhancements to the DTD/XSL:
127 - <glossary> tag that links to the glossary and uses some special
129 - New index: directives by context, including listing which directives
130 are available for each AllowOverride setting.
131 - New index: backout modules by type (aaa, mappers, loggers etc.)
132 probably by introducing a <category> element in modulesynopsis
133 - Use a tag like <var> in place of <em> for things like the
136 - add letter links to glossary and quickreference,
137 perhaps also a term overview (sidebar)
138 - cross references between the different languages,
139 at least links from non-en docs to the originals.
141 - post processing (s&r, XML::Parser, ...)?
142 - pre processing ([kind of] type maps
143 generated from sitemap entries like:
144 <page><variant lang="en" href="">title</variant>)?
145 - looking for other good ideas ;-)
146 - remove <pre> elements. Use <br /> and <indent> elements to get
149 * Autogeneration of PDF
150 - André is working on this, Erik volunteers to help out
152 * Improving the "security docs"
153 - More content and better organisation.
154 - mod_dav ressources are owned by the httpd
156 * General cleaning and improving of module docs
158 * Making the directive definitions "less terse" (i.e., adding more
159 examples and details to the definitions of the directives)
161 * Making site-specific enhancements easier, including a documented
162 and robust way for 3P module docco to be added -- and have it
163 survive a server docco upgrade
165 - This could be something a simple and hackish as a manual/extra/
166 directory (a la the 1.3 src/modules/extra/ directory) and a
167 script in the support directory that scans the files there and
168 updates the manual indices. (We do something like that now for
169 httpd.conf file with apxs [LoadModule, etc.].)
171 * Summarize all the implemented drafts/standards with short explanations
172 within a document. (PR 16938)