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Apache Web Server

The World Wide Web has become synonymous with the Internet. No discussion of Internet services is complete without mention of web servers. Web servers have become an essential part of every networked business-they are used to advertise products and offer services to external customers as well as to coordinate and disseminate information within the organization.

Linux systems make excellent web servers. In fact, the Apache server software that comes with Linux is the most widely used web server in the world. The daemon that Apache installs on a Linux system to create a web server is the Hypertext Transport Protocol daemon (httpd). This tutorial describes how you can create your own web server with Apache and Linux by installing Apache and running httpd. It provides all the information you need to understand a default Apache configuration and to make the adjustments needed for an average server.

In this tutorial:

  1. Installing Apache
  2. Running httpd
  3. Configuring the Apache Server
  4. The httpd.conf File
  5. Loading Dynamic Shared Objects
  6. Basic Server Directives
  7. Multi-Homed Server Configuration
  8. Defining Where Things Are Stored
  9. Creating a Fancy Index
  10. Defining File Types
  11. Managing Child Processes
  12. Performance Tuning Directives
  13. Caching Directives
  14. Defining Virtual Hosts
  15. Web Server Security
  16. The CGI and SSI Threat
  17. Server Options for Documents and Directories
  18. Directory-Level Configuration Controls
  19. Defining Access Controls
  20. Requiring User Authentication
  21. High-Performance User Authentication
  22. Configuring SSL
  23. Managing Your Web Server
  24. Monitoring Your Server
  25. Apache Logging
  26. Defining Log Formats
  27. Using Conditional Logging