Bug in Apache 1.3.35 ... or something changed ... ?

[Chris]

On 13/05/06, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:39:47AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I just installed apache
> > 1.3.35 on one of my FreeBSD 6.x/amd64 servers, and it no longer appears to
> > process my:
> >
> > Include etc/apache/virtual_hosts/*.conf
> >
> > directive ...
> >
> > {snip}
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> Looks to me like the Apache team botched it up and didn't test
> commits thoroughly -- AGAIN.  This has becoming a habit of theirs
> in recent years.  :-)  I could be completely wrong with the
> facts shown below, but CVS is CVS...
>
> Here's the committed change and all associated files.  Note that
> this is the 2nd-to-most-recent commit to the 1.3.x tree:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=396294&view=rev
>
> The applicable source-code change is here, and I see absolutely no
> support for wildcards in the code, which explains why it broke:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/main/http_config.c?rev=396294&view=diff&r1=396294&r2=396293&p1=httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/main/http_config.c&p2=/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/main/http_config.c
>
> The official "patch" submitted can be viewed here, and is the
> responsibility of an Apache developer ("colm"):
>
> http://people.apache.org/~colm/include_directive-1.3.patch
>
> Someone obviously realised the mistake and backed out the commit,
> as you can see in the commit reason here:
>
> >>> "Back out 396294. This keeps HEAD in a non-regression state
> >>> and allows us to re-add/fix the functionality "later on"
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=405142&view=rev
>
> So basically your options at this point are as follows:
>
> * Upgrade to 2.0 or 2.2 (recommended unless you use Apache modules
>  which don't support it)
> * Stick with 1.3.34 (not recommended due to the security hole)
> * Stop using wildcards in your Include directives (until they release
>  1.3.36 or higher, of course) and specify individual files
> * Use a trunk/CVS build (risky)
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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Apache really should release 1.3.35a or something but wouldnt surprise
me if they leave a buggy version as latest release for a while.

Chris