Eric Covener's Journal » Apache

configuration error: couldn’t check access. No groups file?

Covener — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:34 +0000

If you see this in Apache 2.2.x, you’re using a Require type that no module recognizes, and you don’t have mod_authz_default loaded

If you’re just using “Require valid-user”, you need mod_authz_user loaded.

You would only hit this if you don’t start with the default config file, or you over-aggressively remove modules.

ASF Membership

Covener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:23:00 +0000

This morning I woke up to an invitation to become an ASF member!

http://www.apache.org/foundation/

IBM HTTP Server v7.0 for z/OS

Covener — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:39:12 +0000

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS208-391&appname=USN

IBM Ported Tools for z/OS is a non-priced program product designed to deliver tools and applications for the z/OS platform. In the past, IBM Ported Tools for z/OS has delivered OpenSSH, Perl, PHP, cURL, and other utilities for the z/OS platform. The newest feature adds the IBM HTTP Server V7.0.

IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: IBM HTTP Server V7.0 integrates with the z/OS UNIX System Services environment, and allows the hosting of dynamic and static Web sites from a highly secure and reliable z/OS environment. IBM HTTP Server V7.0 is based on Apache Software Foundation’s Apache HTTP Server, the most popular Web server on the internet.

RewriteCond magnum opus

Covener — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:37:43 +0000

Difficult to find if header A and B contain the same unknown value, because the 2nd argument is compiled at initialization time so it can’t have backreferences from a previous RewriteCond.

Note that this uses a rarely seen / not present in the doc \1 backref, handled by PCRE under the covers. The forms of backreferences mentioned in the Apache doc are all explicitly interpolated on the Apache side.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI},%{HTTP_COOKIE} jsessionid=0000(.+):.*,.*tomcookie=[\w:]*\1 [NC]

APR

Covener — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:19:56 +0000

I was granted karma to commit to the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project today!

APR provide a platform-agnostic interface to applications so the guts of your code isn’t riddled with branches accommodating differences between various Operating Systems as well as a few non-portability related STL-like data structures.

Apache promotion

Covener — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:41:39 +0000

I accepted an invitation to join the Apache HTTPD Project Management Committee (PMC)

http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#structure

PMC member is a developer or a committer that was elected due to merit for the evolution of the project and demonstration of commitment. They have write access to the code repository, an apache.org mail address, the right to vote for the community-related decisions and the right to propose an active user for committership. The PMC as a whole is the entity that controls the project, nobody else.