HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes
Installation Requirements
The following requirements must be fulfilled before certain components/features will work. See
the following documentation section for the location of further information.
• Building Apache DSOs using apxs depends on Perl installed at /opt/perl/bin/perl.
• Fast Perl scripts and Apache modules written in Perl require mod_perl to be configured
and Perl 5.8.8 (available with the Operating Environment) to be installed.
• HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine requires Java 1.4 or later. You are not required to have
the entire HP-UX Software Development Kit (SDK) for compiling JSPs; only JRE needs to
be installed. HP-UX XML Web Server Tools require SDK for Java 1.3 or later.
• HP-UX Webmin-based Admin depends on Perl 5 or later.
Documentation
Bundled documentation (Release Notes, Admin Guides, User Guides, Migration Guides and
FAQs) now install into /opt/hpws/hp_docs. These documents can be accessed through HP-UX
Apache-based Web Server, HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine, and HP-UX Webmin-based
Admin by browsing to http://yourserver.com/hp_docs on the appropriate port (i.e., for
Webmin on port 10000, the URL should be: http://yourserver.com:10000/hp_docs).
NOTE: Shared documentation, such as Migration Guides and FAQs, are located at
/opt/hpws/hp_docs and are included in the HP-UX Webmin-based Admin product.
The latest information can also be found on the product Web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/webserver
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server combines Apache with numerous popular modules from
other Open Source projects and provides HP value-added features for the HP-UX platform:
• Scripting capabilities: PHP, mod_perl, CGI
• Content management: WebDAV, FrontPage Server Extensions 2002
• Security: authentication through an LDAP server, Webproxy, Chrooted environment, SSL
and TLS support
Summary of Change
HP-UX Apache-based Web Server v.2.0.59.01: This release of HP-UX Apache-based Web Server
is primarily a security and defect-fix release:
• Apache upgraded to 2.0.59
• PHP upgraded to 5.2.2
• mod_jk upgraded to 1.2.23
For more details, refer to the product release notes. See “Documentation” (page 144).
Impact
This is primarily a security and defect-fix release.
Compatibility
This release is binary-compatible with Apache 2.0.50 and greater. All the modules compiled with
Apache 2.0.50 or greater will continue to work with this version since the Apache API has not
changed.
Performance
Performance is similar to previous HP-UX Apache-based Web Server releases.
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