Organization of This Book
The chapters that follow and their contents are listed here:
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Covers web servers, how Apache works, TCP/IP, HTTP, hostnames, what a client does, what happens at the server end, choosing a Unix version, and compiling and installing Apache under both Unix and Win32.
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Discusses getting Apache to run, creating Apache users, runtime flags, permissions, and site.simple.
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Introduces a demonstration business, Butterthlies, Inc.; some HTML; default indexing of web pages; server housekeeping; and block directives.
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Demonstrates aliases, logs, HTML forms, shell script, a CGI in C, environment variables, and adapting to the client's browser.
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Explains controlling access, collecting information about clients, cookies, DBM control, digest authentication, and anonymous access.
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Covers content and language arbitration, type maps, and expiration of information.
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Discusses better indexes, index options, your own indexes, and imagemaps.
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Describes Alias, ScriptAlias, and the amazing Rewrite module.
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Covers remote proxies and proxy caching.
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Explains runtime commands in your HTML and XSSI—a more secure server-side include.
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Covers server status, logging the action, and configuring the log files.
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Discusses authentication, blocking, counters, faster CGI, languages, server-side scripting, and URL rewriting.
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