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

About the Author

Ben Laurie is the coauthor of Apache: The Definitive Guide, Technical Director of A.L. Digital Ltd. and The Bunker, a director of the Apache Software Foundation, author of Apache-SSL and a core team member of OpenSSL. As well as his obvious involvement with free software, he's also obsessed with security and privacy, particularly on the net. In his copious spare time, he writes stuff, sometimes code, sometimes words. Peter Laurie is the co-author of Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition.

Reviews

"Please take as read all the usual good stuff about O'Reilly books that I have written os often before: this book has the same production values etc. etc. and I'm sure you don't want to read that all again. So what is there to say? Well not a lot really which is why you are getting all this filler. The name of the book tells it all - this really is the definitive guide to using Apache. You run apache? You need to understand it better? (The chapter on running a big web server is sound.) Get the book. The person who pays your wages can certainly afford it." - Lindsay Marshall, news@UK