Chapter 19. Apache Security

 

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.

 
 --Small Gods—Terry Pratchett

One of the strengths of Apache is that its developers are very security conscious. Open source projects are sometimes criticized for having too many security holes. Amazingly, the opposite appears to be true with Web servers. In September of 2001 the Gartner Group, a ...

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