September 18, 2002

Aprelium Technologies is proud to announce the availability of the second beta version of Abyss Web Server 1.1.

The changes introduced in this version are listed below:

• Access control support: Password protected paths and files are now supported (HTTP Authentication).
• Users and groups management: Used to define access control rule.
• SSI support: Standard directives are supported (#config, #echo, #exec, #flastmod, #fsize, and #include).
• Custom error pages: Entirely configurable and can even be generated by SSI pages or CGI scripts.
• Updated server engine.
• Various minor bug fixes.
• Updated documentation.

Installation Packages:

• Abyss Web Server 1.1 Beta 2 for Windows (134 Kb)
• Abyss Web Server 1.1 Beta 2 for Linux (107 Kb) (To install it, use the command tar xzfm abws11b2.tgz)

Documentation:

Full book in A4 format. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for on screen reading or high quality printing.

• Abyss Web Server 1.1 for Windows User's Guide (PDF, 612 KB)
• Abyss Web Server 1.1 for Linux User's Guide (PDF, 613 KB)

Upgrading the Windows version:

To upgrade from the previous version, download Abyss Web Server 1.1 Beta 2 for Windows and run the installer. It will detect the presence of an older version and will ask you to uninstall it. Once the old version removed, the installer will setup the new version.

CAUTION: Be careful and read all the on-screen dialog boxes. In fact, the uninstaller will ask you if you want to remove Abyss Web Server's setup directory. You must answer NO to keep your web site and your configuration file.

Upgrading the Linux version:

Download Abyss Web Server 1.1 Beta 2 for Linux, go to the directory where Abyss Web Server is installed and execute the following commands (which purpose is replacing the old application files with newer ones):

mv htdocs/index.html htdocs/index.html.bak
cd ..
tar xfzm abws11b2.tgz
cd abyssws
mv htdocs/index.html.bak htdocs/index.html

If errors are reported when executing the first and the last command, ignore them. Obviously, they occurred because you have no index.html file in the htdocs directory.

Feedback:

All your feedback about this release should be directed to the 1.1 Beta section in our Forum and/or to beta@aprelium.com.