Features and Enhancements in Update 4 Release

Web Server 7.0 Update 4 is an update release to Web Server 7.0. In addition to the features and enhancements in Web Server 7.0 and Web Server 7.0 Update 1, Update 2, and Update 3 releases, Web Server 7.0 Update 4 release brings the following value-additional features and enhancements to the product.

New features and enhancements are described in the sections below.

REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_FILENAME Support

default-sun-web.xml Support

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Support

REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_FILENAME Support

This Web Server update release includes addition of environment variables REQUEST_URIand SCRIPT_FILENAMEin CGI and FastCGI subsystems. These variables are set by default for both CGI and FastCGI on Apache and are used by many PHP applications including WordPress.

For more information on issues related to these variables, see Problem ID 6785490 in Core.

default-sun-web.xml Support

default-sun-web.xmlsupport has been provided in Web Server Update 4 release. For Admin server's LDAP authorization, default-sun-web.xmlsupport is necessary and this will enable the group Id's to be configured.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Support

OpenSolaris 2008.11 support has been provided in Web Server Update 4 release, OpenSolaris 2008.11 is the latest release of OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful, secure, stable, highly scalable, and complete operating environment for users, developers, and deployers.