CHAPTER 25

Apache Web Server Management

IN THIS CHAPTER

About   the Apache  Web Server

Installing  the Apache  Server

Runtime Server  Configuration   Settings

File    System  Authentication  and Access  Control

Apache  Modules

Virtual Hosting

Logging

HTTPS

References

This chapter covers the configuration and management of the Apache web

server and includes an overview of some of the major components of the
server and discussions of text-based and graphical server configuration. In
this chapter, you learn how to start, stop, and restart Apache using the
command line. The chapter begins with some introductory information and
then shows you how to install, configure, and use Apache.

About the Apache Web Server

Apache is the most widely used web server on the Internet today. The name
Apache appeared during the early development of the software because it was
“a patchy” server, made up of patches for the freely available source code of
the NCSA HTTPd web server. For a while after the NCSA HTTPd project
was discontinued, a number of people wrote a variety of patches for the code,
to either fix bugs or add features they wanted. A lot of this code was floating