20.4. Summary
Security is an important subject, and it will be even more important in the future. Making your applications and your systems resistant is a key demand of modern software development.
For adding user authentication to your Web site, Apache and PHP provide some useful features. With the help of Apache and PHP, you can define precisely who is allowed to access what. In combination with PostgreSQL, you can even build database-driven authentication systems.
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