Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

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by: Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie

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Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. This versatile server runs more than half of the world's existing web sites. Apache is both free and rock-solid, running more than 21 million web sites ranging from huge e-commerce operations to corporate intranets and smaller hobby sites.

  With this new third edition of Apache: The Definitive Guide, web administrators new to Apache will come up to speed quickly, and experienced administrators will find the logically organized, concise reference sections indispensable, and system programmers interested in customizing their servers will rely on the chapters on the API and Apache modules.

  Updated to cover the changes in Apache's latest release, 2.0, as well as Apache 1.3, this useful guide discusses how to obtain, set up, secure, modify, and troubleshoot the Apache software on both Unix and Windows systems. Dozens of clearly written examples provide the answers to the real-world issues that Apache administrators face everyday. In addition to covering the installation and configuration of mod--perl and Tomcat, the book examines PHP, Cocoon, and other new technologies that are associated with the Apache web server. Additional coverage of security and the Apache 2.0 API make Apache: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition essential documentation for the world's most popular web server.

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Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Getting Started

          What Does a Web Server Do?

          How Apache Works

          Apache and Networking

          How HTTP Clients Work

          What Happens at the Server End?

          Planning the Apache Installation

          Windows?

          Which Apache?

          Installing Apache

          Building Apache 1.3.X Under Unix

          New Features in Apache v2

          Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix

          Apache Under Windows

  2. Configuring Apache: The First Steps

          What's Behind an Apache Web Site?

          site.toddle

          Setting Up a Unix Server

          Setting Up a Win32 Server

          Directives

          Shared Objects

  3. Toward a Real Web Site

          More and Better Web Sites: site.simple

          Butterthlies, Inc., Gets Going

          Block Directives

          Other Directives

          HTTP Response Headers

          Restarts

          .htaccess

          CERN Metafiles

          Expirations

  4. Virtual Hosts

          Two Sites and Apache

          Virtual Hosts

          Two Copies of Apache

          Dynamically Configured Virtual Hosting

  5. Authentication

          Authentication Protocol

          Authentication Directives

          Passwords Under Unix

          Passwords Under Win32

          Passwords over the Web

          From the Client's Point of View

          CGI Scripts

          Variations on a Theme

          Order, Allow, and Deny

          DBM Files on Unix

          Digest Authentication

          Anonymous Access

          Experiments

          Automatic User Information

          Using .htaccess Files

          Overrides

  6. Content Description and Modification

          MIME Types

          Content Negotiation

          Language Negotiation

          Type Maps

          Browsers and HTTP/1.1

          Filters

  7. Indexing

          Making Better Indexes in Apache

          Making Our Own Indexes

          Imagemaps

          Image Map Directives

  8. Redirection

          Alias

          Rewrite

          Speling

  9. Proxying

          Security

          Proxy Directives

          Apparent Bug

          Performance

          Setup

  10. Logging

          Logging by Script and Database

          Apache's Logging Facilities

          Configuration Logging

          Status

  11. Security

          Internal and External Users

          Binary Signatures, Virtual Cash

          Certificates

          Firewalls

          Legal Issues

          Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

          Apache's Security Precautions

          SSL Directives

          Cipher Suites

          Security in Real Life

          Future Directions

  12. Running a Big Web Site

          Machine Setup

          Server Security

          Managing a Big Site

          Supporting Software

          Scalability

          Load Balancing

  13. Building Applications

          Web Sites as Applications

          Providing Application Logic

          XML, XSLT, and Web Applications

  14. Server-Side Includes

          File Size

          File Modification Time

          Includes

          Execute CGI

          Echo

          Apache v2: SSI Filters

  15. PHP

          Installing PHP

          Site.php

  16. CGI and Perl

          The World of CGI

          Telling Apache About the Script

          Setting Environment Variables

          Cookies

          Script Directives

          suEXEC on Unix

          Handlers

          Actions

          Browsers

  17. mod--perl

          How mod--perl Works

          mod--perl Documentation

          Installing mod--perl-The Simple Way

          Modifying Your Scripts to Run Under mod--perl

          Global Variables

          Strict Pregame

          Loading Changes

          Opening and Closing Files

          Configuring Apache to Use mod--perl

  18. mod--jserv and Tomcat

          mod--jserv

          Tomcat

          Connecting Tomcat to Apache

  19. XML and Cocoon

          XML

          XML and Perl

          Cocoon

          Cocoon 1.8 and JServ

          Cocoon 2.0.3 and Tomcat

          Testing Cocoon

  20. The Apache API

          Documentation

          APR

          Pools

          Per-Server Configuration

          Per-Directory Configuration

          Per-Request Information

          Access to Configuration and Request Information

          Hooks, Optional Hooks, and Optional Functions

          Filters, Buckets, and Bucket Brigades

          Modules

  21. Writing Apache Modules

          Overview

          Status Codes

          The Module Structure

          A Complete Example

          General Hints

          Porting to Apache 2.0

  Appendix: The Apache 1.x API

  Index