Apache Server 2.0 the Complete Reference

by Ryan B Bloom (Conducted by)

Overview

This text gives coverage of configuring, installing, administering, securing, and debugging Apache Server 2.0. It contains information on running Apache on different platforms, including Windows NT and 2000, as well as UNIX-based systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris; and Mac OS X.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072223446
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	06/26/2002
Series:	Complete Reference
Pages:	976
Product dimensions:	7.48(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.72(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xxvii
	Acknowledgments	xxxi
	Introduction	xxxiii
Part I	Apache Overview
1	Introduction to Apache	3
	What Is Apache?	4
	Downloading Apache	14
2	Apache 2.0 vs. Apache 1.3, IIS, and Sun One	23
	Apache 2.0	24
	Apache Server 1.3	29
	Microsoft Internet Information Server	31
	Sun One	35
Part II	Configuring, Compiling, and Installing Apache
3	Configuring Apache	41
	Extracting the Source	42
	Getting Ready to Configure	43
	Running ./ configure on Unix and Mac OS X	45
4	Compiling Apache	63
	Unix	64
	Windows	67
	Building Modules Outside the Apache Source	74
5	Installing Apache	79
	Apache Installation Directories	80
	Installing After Building	82
	Installing a Binary Distribution	88
	Starting Apache for the First Time	100
Part III	Types of Modules
6	Module Overview	109
	What Are Modules Used For?	110
	Categories of Standard Apache Modules	113
	Phases of Request Processing	118
7	Multi-Processing Modules	129
	What Are MPMs?	130
	Writing an MPM	131
8	Standard Modules	161
	The Module Structure	162
	Command Table	164
	Writing a Simple Module	169
Part IV	Apache Modules
9	Setting Up a Basic HTTP Server	185
	The Configuration File	186
	The Essentials of Directives	191
	HTTP Request/Response	198
	When Errors Happen	202
10	Authentication, Authorization, Accounting	209
	Standard Apache AAA Modules	210
	Where to Store Password Information	230
	More Authentication Modules	231
11	Building a Web Site	233
	How It Used to Be Done	234
	What Is Web-Based Distributed Authoring and Versioning?	236
	Setting Up DAV on Your Web Site	239
	DAV Clients	245
12	Generating Content	251
	Generators Included with Apache	252
	Writing a Content Generator	276
13	Filters	291
	Setting Up Filters	293
	Filters Included with Apache	295
	How Filters Work	309
	Writing an Output Filter	328
14	What to Do When Your Site Grows	337
	Symbolic Links	338
	Mapping from URI Space to Files	341
	Some Examples of mod_rewrite	357
15	Virtual Hosts	361
	How Virtual Hosts Work in HTTP	362
	Configuring Virtual Hosts	363
	Keeping Sites Separate	373
	Dealing with a Lot of Virtual Hosts	380
16	Using Apache to Serve Different Protocols	383
	Why Protocol Modules?	384
	How Protocols Get Mapped to a Request	386
	POP3	388
	Writing a Protocol Module	389
Part V	Debugging Your Apache Setup
17	ErrorLog	405
	How Do You Know a Problem Exists?	406
	The Error Log, the First Place to Look	407
	When the Error Log Isn't Enough	412
18	Common Mistakes and Errors	425
	Configuring Apache	426
	Starting and Stopping Apache	429
	Client Problems	435
	Generating and Filtering Content	436
	Security Concerns	439
19	Using httpd-test	447
	Getting httpd-test	448
	Flood	449
	The Perl Framework	459
Part VI	Apache Administration
20	Logs	467
	The Standard Apache Log Files	468
	Piped Logs	475
	Logging from Within a Module	481
21	Disk Management	487
	Log Files	488
	File Permissions for Web Pages	490
	File Permissions for Binary Programs	492
	Windows Permissions	493
22	Performance Tuning	497
	What Is Web Site Performance?	498
	Which MPM to Use	502
	Remove htaccess Files	503
	Which Mutex Are You Using?	505
	Are You Doing DNS Requests During A Request?	506
	Symbolic Links and Apache	509
	Negotiating the File to Serve	510
	Dynamic Modules	511
	Pipelined Connections	511
	What's Serving the Request?	512
23	Maintenance	519
	Watching the Logs	520
	Keeping Apache Current	529
	Upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0	533
Part VII	Advanced Apache Administration
24	Splitting Up Configuration Tasks	541
	Splitting the Configuration File	542
	Changing the Configuration Through htaccess	545
25	Adding Third-Party Modules to Your Server	553
	mod_perl	554
	mod_php	560
	mod_snake	564
	Other Modules	567
Part VIII	Apache Security
26	Secure Sockets Layer	589
	What Is SSL	591
	Setting Up SSL	599
	The SSL Session Cache	611
27	Firewalls and Proxies	615
	What Is a Firewall?	616
	Getting Through the Firewall with a Proxy	617
	Setting Up Your Browser for a Proxy	626
	Setting Up the Proxy to Cache Pages	627
	SSL and Proxy	631
Part IX	Appendixes
A	Possible Apache Log Messages	639
	EMERG	640
	ALERT	641
	CRIT	643
	ERR	646
	WARNING	660
	NOTICE	665
	INFO	671
	DEBUG	674
B	Source Code and Example Configurations	681
	Source Code	682
	Example Configuration File	733
C	Other Apache Resources	739
	Books	740
	Web Sites	741
	Index	743