apache-http-server/docs/STATUS

Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation Status File.
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- XML
    - Rewriting of the remainder of the manual into xml is in
      progress.  See the bottom of this file for status info.
    - Get mod/mod_auth_ldap.xml to validate against the current dtd.

- modules docs
    - mod_suexec: very little documentation
    - mod_proxy: updates for 2.0
    - mod_status: updates for 2.0
    - mod_example: updates for 2.0
    
- man pages
    - Some of the man pages need to be updated for 2.0. 
      Presently, these are generated from nroff man pages using
      the program in the site-tools repository, but nobody seems
      willing to update the nroff files at the moment.
      What should we do?

- MPM documentation
     - Non unix/windows MPMs still need to be completed.
     - the perchild directives in threaded/worker need docs

- Individual docs will need some cleanup. 
     - misc/custom_errordocs.html needs to be updated to
       essentially describe how the international error
       docs included in 2.0 work
     - misc/perf-tuning.html - needs major rewrite for 2.0
     - misc/tutorials.html - mostly not relevant to 2.0
     - misc/stopping.html
     - misc/rewriteguide.html - needs cleaning in 1.3 and 2.0
     - misc/known_client_problems.html - mostly ancient

- New build process.
    - install.html has had a first-pass rewrite, but many things have
      changed in the build system since it was written.

- API documentation
    Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation

- Translations
    There are several efforts underway to translate the documentation
    into other languages. A detailed list of the currently known
    translators (and the corresponding websites) can be found at

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/translations.html

New User documentation
======================

* Directory Handling (mod_dir/mod_autoindex/etc)

Documentation improvements
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* Enhancements to the DTD/XSL:
  - <glossary> tag that links to the glossary and uses some special 
    style in the css.
  - <parentdocument href="...">...</parentdocument> tag to give some
    more structure for the cookie-crumbs, etc.
  - New index: directives by context, including listing which directives
    are available for each AllowOverride setting.
  - Add more information to the directives.html index (description,
    syntax, context, ...) or perhaps add a quickreference.html
    that contains this info.
  - Use a tag like <replaceable> (but not that long) in place of
    <em> for things like the <syntax> listing.
  - Use the sitemap.xml in place of allmodules.xml to generate the
    directives.html and mod/index.html.
  - Handle more levels of sub<section>s.

* Improving the "security docs"

  - More content and better organisation.

* General cleaning and improving of module docs

* Making the directive definitions "less terse" (i.e., adding more
  examples and details to the definitions of the directives)

  - We'll need to audit these and find out which ones need munging, as
    some of it looks ok.  --jsl

* Making site-specific enhancements easier, including a documented
  and robust way for 3P module docco to be added -- and have it
  survive a server docco upgrade

  - This could be something a simple and hackish as a manual/extra/
    directory (a la the 1.3 src/modules/extra/ directory) and a
    script in the support directory that scans the files there and
    updates the manual indices.  (We do something like that now for
    httpd.conf file with apxs [LoadModule, etc.].)

XML Conversions
===============

The following files need to be converted to XML as described at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/docsformat.html

ebcdic.html                        # Perhaps move to platform/
index.html.en                      # leave in html?
cgi_path.html.en
howto/cgi.html.en
howto/ssi.html.en
howto/auth.html.en
misc/custom_errordocs.html         # obsolete?
misc/descriptors.html              # obsolete?
misc/fin_wait_2.html               # obsolete?
misc/index.html
misc/known_client_problems.html    # obsolete?
misc/perf-tuning.html              
misc/rewriteguide.html
misc/tutorials.html                # obsolete?
platform/win_compiling.html
platform/win_service.html
platform/windows.html
ssl/index.html.en
ssl/ssl_compat.html
ssl/ssl_faq.html
ssl/ssl_glossary.html              # delete.  replaced by ../glossary.html
ssl/ssl_howto.html
ssl/ssl_intro.html
vhosts/details.html
vhosts/examples.html
vhosts/ip-based.html
vhosts/mass.html
vhosts/index.html.en
vhosts/fd-limits.html.en
vhosts/name-based.html.en
expand.pl                          # delete after finishing everything

# These will require manual.xsl changes
faq/footer.html                    
faq/header.html
faq/index.html
faq/support.html

# Perhaps these should be left in html to allow the developers to
# play with them
developer/API.html
developer/debugging.html
developer/documenting.html
developer/filters.html
developer/footer.html
developer/header.html
developer/hooks.html
developer/index.html
developer/layeredio.html
developer/request.html
developer/thread_safety.html
developer/modules.html.en

# These are currently generated from nroff, but nobody is editting
# the nroff sources.  Should we just convert to pure xml and forget
# about man pages?
programs/ab.html
programs/apachectl.html
programs/apxs.html
programs/dbmmanage.html
programs/footer.html
programs/header.html
programs/htdigest.html
programs/htpasswd.html
programs/httpd.html
programs/index.html
programs/logresolve.html
programs/other.html
programs/rotatelogs.html
programs/suexec.html