Question about apache versions

All,

Relative newbie to Apache here. Trying to setup certificate based
client authentication for a website.
I am a little confused as to why there are versions of Apache available
- Apache 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2?

Does Apache 2.2 superceed the other two versions? Which version should
I go with?

Thanks,
Ash

Only slightly less newbie replying:

My understanding is that 1.x is the original, stable, well augmented,
but a little platform-restricted. Version 2.0 was a rebuild with the
idea of threads in mind. I think it was partly done to port to Windows.
Version 2.2 is yet more enhanced, and fixes some programming
short-comings and awkwardness. It isn't an upgrade as the number might
indicate, but a whole separate branch (but similar).

I'm runnig 2.0.4xxx something.

Ash wrote:
> All,
>
> Relative newbie to Apache here. Trying to setup certificate based
> client authentication for a website.
> I am a little confused as to why there are versions of Apache available
> - Apache 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2?
>
> Does Apache 2.2 superceed the other two versions? Which version should
> I go with?
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
>

"Ash" <ashnil.dixit.03@alum.dartmouth.org> schreef in bericht
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> Relative newbie to Apache here. Trying to setup certificate based
> client authentication for a website.
> I am a little confused as to why there are versions of Apache available
> - Apache 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2?
- Some third-party modules are (still) unavailb\able for the 2.x versions.
- Some third-party modules -pe mod_ssl- or part of their functionallity -pe
mod-gzip versus mod_deflate- are now part of the standard distribution of
version 2.x

- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/new_features_2_0.html
total internal overhaul: so not all have jumped into an update
threading: although an option scared the h*l out of many
non-unix support: only some running Novell, BeOS,OS/2 or MSW may have
jumped into this
IPv6: not yet used by most of us

- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html
improvements in caching and proxying,

> Which version should I go with?
Depends highly on the cross-platform|version availability of third-party
modules you may want to use.


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