Sun Web Server 7.0 Update 6 has been released. It seems this release fixes some minor cosmetic issues, a security flaw or two buried in the NSS engine, etc. As per usual, all users of Web Server 7.0 are encouraged to upgrade.
No word yet on if/when the changes will be incorporated into Open Web Server.
Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide is now available! Congratulations to Bill, Arvind and Murthy (aka CVR)! They've been working on this book for two years. Bill developed the training for Web Server 7, CVR was the Engineering Manager, and Arvind was the lead Java developer. If anyone is qualified to publish a book about Web Server, it's these guys.
Meena and Jed have pulled together a nice document describing the deployment topology and configuration of Sun Web Server for the sun.com environment. Good job guys!
I'm in the process of upgrading a server from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. "This should be no problem" I thought because, in my heart, I'm an optimist. No, really! I totally am. So just imagine my surprise when after what appeared to be a really smooth update I tried to start my (already installed) Sun Java System Web Server. Was I greeted with "Server ready for requests"? Nope. Instead I was greeted with the wildly unhelpful errors:
Due to a really lame hack in PHP (when used as a FastCGI provider) to detect whether the HTTP front-end is Apache, PHP behaved really, really badly when used with non-Apache servers if the HTTP server provided both REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_FILENAME. The end result was that PHP would throw "No input file specified" errors inappropriately.