Apache HTTPD tuning

Apache HTTPD tuning for Russian

I run Apache HTTPD on this site, you can check its status to see its work in progress.

To specify character set for your KOI8-R documents you can add

"text/html; charset=koi8-r"    html8

lines to your mime.types, then the server will put a proper Content-Type field for all your KOI8-R documents ended with .html8. Also, in this example the server will put a proper Content-Type field for all your MS-Windows documents ended with .htmlw.

As an alternative, you can add

AddType "text/html; charset=koi8-r" .html8

lines to your global srm.conf or local .htaccess with same effect.

The server is bound to use charset= parameter; if document character set is not listed in Accept-Charset, the server should respond with the 406 (none acceptable) status code.

My Apache patches section

Apache v1.2b7 HTML preamble suppress patch, allows to specify <HEAD> and <BODY> attributes.

Apache Russification Resources

Also IMHO on-the-fly character set conversion is unnecessary for Russian language (KOI8-R must be only one Net character set as already happens with E-mail and News), I put here some references for it too:

Apache .var charset negotiation describes character sets negotiation via Apache .var files.
Charset Handling On-the-Fly by Igor Sereda.
Multi-charset Cyrillic support for WWW by Eugene Crosser.
HTTP server for Russia by Dmitry Kryukov.
WARNING: old versions of this server (PL14 and lower) are broken for Lynx browser (which is one of the most internationalized browsers now), to fix it remove lynx from following Kryukov's httpd.conf line:
```
BadAgent lynx arena DosLynx MSIE
```
and report this bug to Alex Tutubalin.