It looks like Meena is exploring making Open Web Server build on more platforms. This time she's tackled making OWS build on OpenSolaris (SPARC) (it previously built only on OpenSolarix (x86)).
Very cool! Great job Meena. I do hope you're getting your various How-Tos integrated into the Open Web Server documentation pages.
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 has done the heavy lifting to make Open Web Server compile and run on MacOS X! Fricken sweet!
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.
Jed has some nice things to say about Sun Web Server. In his nice things he also shows three tricks that are a pain to set up in other servers including use of the lookup() function to allow content owners to control expires headers for various content, URL rewriting, and conditional reverse-proxying to a back-end system.
See? SEE? More people should use this server. It's full of awesome.
