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Let me say it before you do: this document is just a list of technical stuff we did to the web server that nobody but us would care about. It was only "new" when it happened-- some of it half a decade ago.

November 15, 2004

Apache 1.3.33 everywhere.

September 15, 2003

Hardware upgrades (and new physical locations-- the Allen Center) for Cubist and Abstract. Videosrv14 has moved to the Allen Center.

August 25, 2003

To Apache 1.3.28 on Dada, www.

October 4, 2002

To Apache 1.3.27.

June 20, 2002

To Apache 1.3.26 on dada.cs.washington.edu, cubist.cs.washington.edu, www.cs.washington.edu, www4.cs.washington.edu, videosrv14.cs.washington.edu, norfolk.cs.washington.edu, and abstract.cs.washington.edu.

June 20, 2002

To Apache 1.3.26 on dada.cs.washington.edu, cubist.cs.washington.edu, www.cs.washington.edu, www4.cs.washington.edu, videosrv14.cs.washington.edu, norfolk.cs.washington.edu, and abstract.cs.washington.edu.

February 6, 2002

To Apache 1.3.23/PHP 4.1.1 on abstract.cs.washington.edu.

February 1, 2002

To Apache 1.3.23/mod_ssl 2.8.6 on www.cs.washington.edu and www2.cs.washington.edu.

October 16, 2001

Added HTTPS (SSL) service to www2.cs.washington.edu, based upon mod_ssl 2.8.5. Also, pubcookie.

Added PHP (4.0.6) to abstract.cs.washington.edu (which host is provided for user CGI purposes).

October 13, 2001

From Apache httpd 1.3.20 to Apache httpd 1.3.22 on www2.cs.washington.edu.

October, 2001

From RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.1, all CSE Linux-based web servers.

July 4, 2001

Happy birthday, America. We love you just as much today as we did the day we met. Oh, and from Apache 1.3.17 to Apache 1.3.20.

January 31, 2001

From Apache 1.3.14 to Apache 1.3.17.

November 5, 2000

From Apache 1.3.12 to Apache 1.3.14.

October 15, 2000

From Linux 5.2 to Linux 6.2. From Xeon 400x1 to Xeon 450x2 (with larger caches). From 256MB to 384MB. From mixed SCSI and IDE to all SCSI, all the time. From not enough disk space, to enough disk space for the moment.

September 7, 2000

HTTPS service is now offered on CSE web servers www and cubist. Experimentally, we are offering UWNetID authentication; that's available on www4 as well. Documentation of how to use UWNetID is forthcoming.

February 26, 2000

From Apache 1.3.9 to Apache 1.3.12.

December 21, 1999

www.cs.washington.edu is now a newer and faster box than it was until yesterday- a Pentium II-400 with 256MB memory vs. a Pentium Pro-200 with 128MB of memory. The OS has also been upgraded, from Linux 2.0.36 to Linux 2.2.9. And, the web server is Apache 1.3.9, up from 1.3.6. Finally, the way logs are generated, named, and archived has changed in ways that will matter to few users; those users can read About Logfiles.

October 24, 1999

A draft reimplementation of the CSENetID "web login ticket" cookie generator is now under review. It offers better security, a web logout function, and a way to check the expiration time of your ticket. You can read the details.

June, 1999

We've added a proprietary "CSENetID" auth mechanism to the web service. Read about it here. It allows internal users to securely provide their Kerberos credentials to obtain a "ticket" that can be used to authenticate to the server and thereby obtain access to protected resources. We envision using this largely to replace simple IP-based authentication so that CSE users can access internal documents when browsing from non-CSE hosts.

March 24, 1999

From Apache 1.3.4 to Apache 1.3.6.

March 23, 1999

We've deployed an SSL-enabled server with K5 authentication on Nouveau, and configured MVIS (visitor and room scheduling) to use it when a research user comes in with a foreign IP. We're working on getting static HTML content served from that host as well. A little bit of information is in About the CSE Secure Web Service.

January 13, 1999

From Apache 1.3.3 to Apache 1.3.4.

January 1, 1999

New Year, New Web, but still Gnu Linux. The old one is still chugging along at http://legacy.cs.washington.edu/, should you get nostalgic for them Olde Days. We aren't.

December 18, 1998

We're running Apache 1.3.3. Documentation for Apache 1.3 is here. Server configuration information is here.

June 10, 1998

We're running Apache 1.3.0 on port 81 on www.cs.washington.edu, just to get a little more experience with it.

May 4, 1998

Linux 2.0.33, from a patched version of 2.0.27.

April 8, 1998

We're up to Apache 1.2.6 (actually, for several weeks now), and have added mod_rewrite, primarily to make it easier to deal with big trees that move elsewhere.

January 7, 1998

Now we're running Apache 1.2.5, which has some security fixes that caught our eye. Did you know that Apache, long the most widely-used web server, is now used by more than half of all web sites?

October 8, 1997

Now we're running Apache 1.2.4.

July 6, 1997

We started running Apache 1.2.1-- the second release version of the Apache httpd version 1.2-- today.

June 16, 1997

Until today, www.cs.washington.edu was a Pentium 90 with 64MB RAM running Linux 1.2.11; as of this morning, it's a Pentium Pro 200 with 128MB RAM running Slackware Linux 2.0.27. That should give it a touch more pep, and also makes it easier to do IP aliasing such as is necessary to support virtual hosts for all browser types. Don't touch that dial! More changes are forthcoming, all of them expected to have positive impacts upon robustness, performance, and usability. Particularly robustness.

June 6, 1997

We started running Apache 1.2.0-- the first release version of the Apache httpd version 1.2-- today.

May 30, 1997

Apache 1.2 beta 11. The release is expected in early June...

May 1, 1997

The First of May,
The First of May.
Apache 1.2 beta 10 is running today.
 
This could well be the 1.2 release, but first the bug hunt process must complete... we are told.

April 24, 1997

A weekly usage report for users is now available. Read about the report and get some other information about the logs here.

Two new web tools have made an appearance:

• Query That Server!
• Trace That Route!

March 12, 1997

Turned off NCSA httpd 1.4. Goodbye old and trusted friend.

 

March 5, 1997

A new search tool- based upon HuskySearch- has replaced the old tool- which had been based on Glimpse. Thanks, HuskySearch folks.

February 26, 1997

We're now running a new web server on www.cs.washington.edu-- Apache 1.2b7-- which replaces our venerable NCSA 1.4 server. The old server is still running-- temporarily-- on port 81. To access it, replace www.cs.washington.edu with www.cs.washington.edu:81 in any URL. For example, here is the CSE home page served by the old server.

.htaccess Semantics and the New Web Server explains how to edit a .htaccess file to work with the new server, which won't follow symbolic links unless it's explicitly told to do so.

Apache Users Guide is the documentation that comes with the Apache web server software.

February 15, 1997

A few new tools are available on the lab page:

1. Controlling Access to Your Documents provides a tools for generating .htaccess files.
2. Host Info is a WWW interface to the hinfo(1) program that queries the database of CSE hosts.

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