9/2/97 Announcing: Sambar Server 4.03 BETA 2 Release I appreciate any bug reports. To support aliasing and a number of bug fixes, a great amount of code was rewritten for this release. Most significant was the change from PC-style directory separators (\) to UNIX-style directory separators (/). Thanks, Tod Sambar Sambar Technologies tod@sambar.com 4.03 Beta 2 Features/Bug Fixes: Added CGI and Document aliasing Changed search indexes to use relative paths Fixed FTP_WELCOME macros to allow new-lines Added FTP_GOODBYE macro Changed all PC-specific directory notation to now use UNIX forward slash (/) (affects config.ini and security.ini) Implemented FTP REST (restart command) Included Ceilidh 1.50 Group discussion forum from www.lilikoi.com Fixed a POST bug affecting many PERL discussion forums. Added HTTP_COOKIE CGI environment variable. Fixed FTP RENAME bug. Added CR/LF to all configuration and log files. Fixed document directory listing of server when "home page" is missing. Fixed search bug that caused words following HTML tags to be missed 4.03 Features/Bug Fixes: Implemented Sambar Server as an NT Service Implemented Virtual Hosts Implemented HTTP PUT -- not fully tested! Implemented FTP APPE (append) command -- not fully tested! Support for ISINDEX queries Fixed many CGI bugs (thanks for being patient) Fixed bug in security.c where case-sensitive comparinson was performed. Fixed bug when writing out server configuration that caused the document directory to get trashed Fixed bug in security processing when directory is not the install directory Modified FTP to support file names with spaces and dashes (valid characters are alpha-numeric, space, dash and underline) Provide status update while Search Indexer is running (file list) Implemented Server-side includes (see SSI documentation for implementation notes) Improved the log analysis agent discovery (more extensible) Added active users report (and the ability to terminate sessions) Added parent environment to CGI environment Added REMOTE_USER and CONTENT_TYPE to CGI Fixed FTP root directory path bug Fixed WinCGI and CGI to work with 16-bit applications and fixed parameter passing Fixed CGI QUERY_STRING bug (was passing URL with ) Upgrading from 4.X: - DO NOT install over an existing installation! - The config.ini and security.ini files have changed from the previous release. Most significantly all directory paths must now use a forward slash (/) rather than the PC-style backward slash (\) - The output written to the access.log file has changed - The logstats.ini file has a new format. - All Search Indexes must re-generated. - Scripting language and Server APIs are 100% compatible.