Preface;
Who Wrote Apache, and Why?;
The Demonstration Code;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Organization of This Book;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Getting Started;
1.1 What Does a Web Server Do?;
1.2 How Apache Works;
1.3 Apache and Networking;
1.4 How HTTP Clients Work;
1.5 What Happens at the Server End?;
1.6 Planning the Apache Installation;
1.7 Windows?;
1.8 Which Apache?;
1.9 Installing Apache;
1.10 Building Apache 1.3.X Under Unix;
1.11 New Features in Apache v2;
1.12 Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix;
1.13 Apache Under Windows;
Chapter 2: Configuring Apache: The First Steps;
2.1 What's Behind an Apache Web Site?;
2.2 site.toddle;
2.3 Setting Up a Unix Server;
2.4 Setting Up a Win32 Server;
2.5 Directives;
2.6 Shared Objects;
Chapter 3: Toward a Real Web Site;
3.1 More and Better Web Sites: site.simple;
3.2 Butterthlies, Inc., Gets Going;
3.3 Block Directives;
3.4 Other Directives;
3.5 HTTP Response Headers;
3.6 Restarts;
3.7 .htaccess;
3.8 CERN Metafiles;
3.9 Expirations;
Chapter 4: Virtual Hosts;
4.1 Two Sites and Apache;
4.2 Virtual Hosts;
4.3 Two Copies of Apache;
4.4 Dynamically Configured Virtual Hosting;
Chapter 5: Authentication;
5.1 Authentication Protocol;
5.2 Authentication Directives;
5.3 Passwords Under Unix;
5.4 Passwords Under Win32;
5.5 Passwords over the Web;
5.6 From the Client's Point of View;
5.7 CGI Scripts;
5.8 Variations on a Theme;
5.9 Order, Allow, and Deny;
5.10 DBM Files on Unix;
5.11 Digest Authentication;
5.12 Anonymous Access;
5.13 Experiments;
5.14 Automatic User Information;
5.15 Using .htaccess Files;
5.16 Overrides;
Chapter 6: Content Description and Modification;
6.1 MIME Types;
6.2 Content Negotiation;
6.3 Language Negotiation;
6.4 Type Maps;
6.5 Browsers and HTTP 1.1;
6.6 Filters;
Chapter 7: Indexing;
7.1 Making Better Indexes in Apache;
7.2 Making Our Own Indexes;
7.3 Imagemaps;
7.4 Image Map Directives;
Chapter 8: Redirection;
8.1 Alias;
8.2 Rewrite;
8.3 Speling;
Chapter 9: Proxying;
9.1 Security;
9.2 Proxy Directives;
9.3 Apparent Bug;
9.4 Performance;
9.5 Setup;
Chapter 10: Logging;
10.1 Logging by Script and Database;
10.2 Apache's Logging Facilities;
10.3 Configuration Logging;
10.4 Status;
Chapter 11: Security;
11.1 Internal and External Users;
11.2 Binary Signatures, Virtual Cash;
11.3 Certificates;
11.4 Firewalls;
11.5 Legal Issues;
11.6 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL);
11.7 Apache's Security Precautions;
11.8 SSL Directives;
11.9 Cipher Suites;
11.10 Security in Real Life;
11.11 Future Directions;
Chapter 12: Running a Big Web Site;
12.1 Machine Setup;
12.2 Server Security;
12.3 Managing a Big Site;
12.4 Supporting Software;
12.5 Scalability;
12.6 Load Balancing;
Chapter 13: Building Applications;
13.1 Web Sites as Applications;
13.2 Providing Application Logic;
13.3 XML, XSLT, and Web Applications;
Chapter 14: Server-Side Includes;
14.1 File Size;
14.2 File Modification Time;
14.3 Includes;
14.4 Execute CGI;
14.5 Echo;
14.6 Apache v2: SSI Filters;
Chapter 15: PHP;
15.1 Installing PHP;
15.2 [...];
Chapter 16: CGI and Perl;
16.1 The World of CGI;
16.2 Telling Apache About the Script;
16.3 Setting Environment Variables;
16.4 Cookies;
16.5 Script Directives;
16.6 suEXEC on Unix;
16.7 Handlers;
16.8 Actions;
16.9 Browsers;
Chapter 17: mod_perl;
17.1 How mod_perl Works;
17.2 mod_perl Documentation;
17.3 Installing mod_perl - The Simple Way;
17.4 Modifying Your Scripts to Run Under mod_perl;
17.5 Global Variables;
17.6 Strict Pregame;
17.7 Loading Changes;
17.8 Opening and Closing Files;
17.9 Configuring Apache to Use mod_perl;
Chapter 18: mod_jserv and Tomcat;
18.1 mod_jserv;
18.2 Tomcat;
18.3 Connecting Tomcat to Apache;
Chapter 19: XML and Cocoon;
19.1 XML;
19.2 XML and Perl;
19.3 Cocoon;
19.4 Cocoon 1.8 and JServ;
19.5 Cocoon 2.0.3 and Tomcat;
19.6 Testing Cocoon;
Chapter 20: The Apache API;
20.1 Documentation;
20.2 APR;
20.3 Pools;
20.4 Per-Server Configuration;
20.5 Per-Directory Configuration;
20.6 Per-Request Information;
20.7 Access to Configuration and Request Information;
20.8 Hooks, Optional Hooks, and Optional Functions;
20.9 Filters, Buckets, and Bucket Brigades;
20.10 Modules;
Chapter 21: Writing Apache Modules;
21.1 Overview;
21.2 Status Codes;
21.3 The Module Structure;
21.4 A Complete Example;
21.5 General Hints;
21.6 Porting to Apache 2.0;
Appendix A: The Apache 1.x API;
A.1 Pools;
A.2 Per-Server Configuration;
A.3 Per-Directory Configuration;
A.4 Per-Request Information;
A.5 Access to Configuration and Request Information;
A.6 Functions;
Colophon;