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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