What is new in this release
Learn about the new IBM® HTTP Server features that are available in the most recent release.
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Install IBM HTTP Server from an archive install
For fix pack 9.0.0.6 and later, you can install IBM HTTP Server from an archive install without the IBM Installation Manager. See Installing and configuring IBM HTTP Server from an archive for more information.
Migration
Learn to migrate an IBM® HTTP Server, Version 7 or 8 server, to IBM HTTP Server 9.0. For more information, see Migrating to IBM HTTP Server 9.0.
Apache HTTP Server modules
- mod_proxy_fcgi
- mod_substitute
- mod_lua
- mod_authn_certificate
- mod_remoteip
- mod_macro
Enhancements to existing modules
- mod_ibm_ssl added support for certificate selection, based on TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extensions.
- A new configuration option, <if>, allows complex conditions to enclose Apache directives.
- A number of directives now support a robust expression language.
- You can now group authorization directives Require in <RequireAny>, or <RequireAll>.
- The event MPM is available on Linux.
- The ProxyRemote directive now works with SSLProxyEngine.
- The bundled PCRE is updated.
Logging changes
- You can specify the LogLevel directive per-directory, per-module, and per-request.
- Log levels TRACE1 through TRACE8 were added.
- Many Apache HTTP Server messages now include an AHnnnnn identifier.
- The error log format is user configurable. For more information, see the ErrorLogFormat directives.
- Higher precision time stamps are available in the error log.
Default changes
- RC4 is disabled by default.
- The default configuration reduced the mod_mpmstats ReportInterval directive from 600 to 300.
mod_mpmstats now displays the number of keepalive requests, even though they do not occupy a thread. In prior releases, mpmstats would always show a value of zero.
TLS1.1, TLS1.2, and ECC ciphers are enabled by default if ICSF is configured at startup.
mod_deflate.so uses offload by default and mod_deflate_z.so is no longer provided.
Modules that were removed
- The mod_mem_cache module is provided for transition purposes only and were removed.
- mod_ibm_ldap
- WebSphereCE modules, mod_proxy_balancer and mod_proxy_ajp
- 32-bit builds were removed for AIX, Linux on ia32, Linux on PPC, Linux on S390, Solaris on SPARC.