Z. Wagner - Apache/2

I started to use Apache in 1996 (it was version 1.1.3) for these reasons:

• I had had the possibility of placing my WWW pages to a WWW server running in Windows NT. I had read the Common Gateway Interface specification, yet I was not able to make and run any CGI script (ASP did not exist by that time). Installation of Apache in OS/2 from zero knowledge up to the first functional CGI script of my own (written in Rexx) took just 5 minutes!.
• Apache for OS/2 runs well even on a computer with processor 80486, 66 MHz, 16 MB RAM) and it is sill possible to use the machine interactively for program development and debugging at the same time.
• Apache supports scripting languages PHP and Perl and enables use of databases, e.g. MySQL.
• Apache enables creation of multilingual WWW pages using Content negotiation.

Application of the Apache server is the basis for the project of Network Computing via World Wide Web.

I developed a few tools for use with Apache:

Web Tools:

a script for testing HTML forms and a script for checking validity of links on WWW pages

zwrotlogs:

modification of the rotlogs program for rotation of the Apache log files

SSL certificates:

Rexx scripts for creation and signing zertificates in OS/2

SockWatch:

a Rexx script (for OS/2) which monitors availability of selected network services and can automatically restart daemons

I wrote HOWTO for file upload in PHP.

A PHP script for testing the cryptographic module mod_mcrypt is available from my private page icebearsoft.euweb.cz/php/.

I wrote a document on content negotiation in PHP scripts.

You can find more information on the main page of this server.