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<p>In order to assist folks upgrading, we maintain a document
describing information critical to existing Apache HTTP Server users. These
are intended to be brief notes, and you should be able to find
can find a summary of API changes in the <a href="developer/new_api_2_4.html">API updates</a> overview.</p>
<p>This document describes changes in server behavior that might
require you to change your configuration or how you use the server
in order to continue using 2.4 as you are currently using 2.2.
To take advantage of new features in 2.4, see the New Features
document.</p>
<p>This document describes only the changes from 2.2 to 2.4. If you
are upgrading from version 2.0, you should also consult the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html">2.0 to 2.2
upgrading document.</a></p>
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<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#compile-time">Compile-Time Configuration Changes</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#run-time">Run-Time Configuration Changes</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#commonproblems">Common problems when upgrading</a></li>
</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="new_features_2_4.html">Overview of new features in
Apache HTTP Server 2.4</a></li></ul></div>
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<h2><a name="compile-time" id="compile-time">Compile-Time Configuration Changes</a></h2>
<p>The compilation process is very similar to the one used in
version 2.2. Your old <code>configure</code> command line (as
directory) can be used in most cases. There are some changes in
the default settings. Some details of changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>These modules have been removed: mod_authn_default,
mod_authz_default, mod_mem_cache. If you were using
mod_mem_cache in 2.2, look at <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_cache_disk.html">mod_cache_disk</a></code> in
2.4.</li>
<li>All load balancing implementations have been moved to
individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules, e.g.
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_lbmethod_bybusyness.html">mod_lbmethod_bybusyness</a></code>. You might need
to build and load any of these that your configuration
uses.</li>
<li>Platform support has been removed for BeOS, TPF, and
believed to be broken anyway.</li>
<li>configure: dynamic modules (DSO) are built by default</li>
<li>configure: the "most" module set gets built by default</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a name="run-time" id="run-time">Run-Time Configuration Changes</a></h2>
<p>There have been significant changes in authorization configuration,
and other minor configuration changes, that could require changes to your 2.2
configuration files before using them for 2.4.</p>
<h3><a name="authz" id="authz">Authorization</a></h3>
<p>Any configuration file that uses authorization will likely
need changes.</p>
Authorization and Access Control Howto</a>, especially the section
which explains the new mechanisms for controlling the order in
which the authorization directives are applied.</p>
<h4><a name="access" id="access">Access control</a></h4>
<p>In 2.2, access control based on client hostname, IP address,
and other characteristics of client requests was done using the
directives <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html#order">Order</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html#allow">Allow</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html#deny">Deny</a></code>, and <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html#satisfy">Satisfy</a></code>.</p>
<p>In 2.4, such access control is done in the same way as other
authorization checks, using the new module
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code>. The old access control idioms
should be replaced by the new authentication mechanisms,
although for compatibility with old configurations, the new
module <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html">mod_access_compat</a></code> is provided.</p>
<p>Here are some examples of old and new ways to do the same
access control.</p>
<p>In this example, all requests are denied.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>2.2 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Order deny,allow<br />
Deny from all
</code></p></div>
<div class="example"><h3>2.4 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Require all denied
</code></p></div>
<p>In this example, all requests are allowed.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>2.2 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Order allow,deny<br />
Allow from all
</code></p></div>
<div class="example"><h3>2.4 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Require all granted
</code></p></div>
<p>In the following example, all hosts in the example.org domain
are allowed access; all other hosts are denied access.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>2.2 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Order Deny,Allow<br />
Deny from all<br />
Allow from example.org
</code></p></div>
<div class="example"><h3>2.4 configuration:</h3><p><code>
Require host example.org
</code></p></div>
<h3><a name="config" id="config">Other configuration changes</a></h3>
<p>Some other small adjustments may be necessary for particular
configurations as discussed below.</p>
<ul>
<li><code class="directive">MaxRequestsPerChild</code> has been renamed to
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mpm_common.html#maxconnectionsperchild">MaxConnectionsPerChild</a></code>,
describes more accurately what it does. The old name is still
supported.</li>
<li><code class="directive">MaxClients</code> has been renamed to
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code>,
which describes more accurately what it does. For async MPMs, like
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/event.html">event</a></code>, the maximum number of clients is not
equivalent than the number of worker threads. The old name is still
supported.</li>
directive no longer has any effect, other than to emit a
warning if it's used with any value other than
<code>none</code>. You need to use other configuration
settings to replace it in 2.4.
</li>
defaults to Off.</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_log_config.html">mod_log_config</a></code>: <a href="modules/mod_log_config.html#formats">${cookie}C</a>
matches whole cookie names. Previously any substring would
match.</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_dav_fs.html">mod_dav_fs</a></code>: The format of the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_dav_fs.html#davlockdb">DavLockDB</a></code> file has changed for
systems with inodes. The old <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_dav_fs.html#davlockdb">DavLockDB</a></code> file must be deleted on
upgrade.
</li>
accepts values of <code>On</code> or <code>Off</code>.
Previously, any value other than "Off" or "0" was treated as
"On".</li>
<li>Directives AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex,
SSLStaplingMutex, and WatchdogMutexPath have been replaced
directive. You will need to evaluate any use of these removed
directives in your 2.2 configuration to determine if they can
just be deleted or will need to be replaced using <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#mutex">Mutex</a></code>.</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_cache.html">mod_cache</a></code>: <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_cache.html#cacheignoreurlsessionidentifiers">CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers</a></code>
now does an exact match against the query string instead of a
partial match. If your configuration was using partial
then you will need to change to the full string
<code>jsessionid</code>.
</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ldap.html">mod_ldap</a></code>: <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_ldap.html#ldaptrustedclientcert">LDAPTrustedClientCert</a></code> is now
consistently a per-directory setting only. If you use this
directive, review your configuration to make sure it is
present in all the necessary directory contexts.</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_filter.html">mod_filter</a></code>: <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_filter.html#filterprovider">FilterProvider</a></code> syntax has changed and
now uses a boolean expression to determine if a filter is applied.
</li>
<ul>
<li>The <code>#if expr</code> element now uses the new <a href="expr.html">expression parser</a>. The old syntax can be
restored with the new directive <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_include.html#ssilegacyexprparser">SSILegacyExprParser</a></code>.
</li>
<li>An SSI* config directive in directory scope no longer causes
all other per-directory SSI* directives to be reset to their
default values.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_charset_lite.html">mod_charset_lite</a></code>: The <code>DebugLevel</code>
option has been removed in favour of per-module <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#loglevel">LogLevel</a></code> configuration.
</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ext-filter.html">mod_ext-filter</a></code>: The <code>DebugLevel</code>
option has been removed in favour of per-module <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#loglevel">LogLevel</a></code> configuration.
</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a name="misc" id="misc">Misc Changes</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code>: will now extract titles and
display descriptions for .xhtml files, which were previously
ignored.</li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>: The default format of the <code>*_DN</code>
variables has changed. The old format can still be used with the new
<code>LegacyDNStringFormat</code> argument to <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html#ssloptions">SSLOptions</a></code>.</li>
<li><code class="program"><a href="/programs/htpasswd.html">htpasswd</a></code> now uses MD5 hash by default on
all platforms.</li>
directive no longer has any effect, other than to emit a
virtual hosts is implicitly treated as a name-based virtual host.
</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a name="third-party" id="third-party">Third Party Modules</a></h2>
<p>All modules must be recompiled for 2.4 before being loaded.</p>
<p>Many third-party modules designed for version 2.2 will
otherwise work unchanged with the Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.
Some will require changes; see the <a href="developer/new_api_2_4.html">API
update</a> overview.</p>
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<h2><a name="commonproblems" id="commonproblems">Common problems when upgrading</a></h2>
<ul><li>Startup errors:
<ul>
<li><code>Invalid command 'User', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration</code> - load module <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_unixd.html">mod_unixd</a></code></li>
<li><code>Invalid command 'Require', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration</code>, or
<code>Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration</code>
- load module <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_access_compat.html">mod_access_compat</a></code>, or update configuration to 2.4 authorization directives.</li>
<li><code>Ignoring deprecated use of DefaultType in line NN of /path/to/httpd.conf</code> - remove <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#defaulttype">DefaultType</a></code>
and replace with other configuration settings.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Errors serving requests:
<ul>
<li><code>configuration error: couldn't check user: /path</code> -
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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