Apache Server

Apache is a freely available Web server that is distributed

under an "open source" license. Version 2.0 runs on most

Unix-based operating systems (such as Linux, Solaris,

Digital UNIX, and AIX), on other UNIX/POSIX-derived systems

(such as Rhapsody, BeOS, and BS2000/OSD), on AmigaOS, and on

Windows 2000. According to the Netcraft (www.netcraft.com)

Web server survey in February, 2001, 60% of all Web sites on

the Internet are using Apache (62% including Apache

derivatives), making Apache more widely used than all other

Web servers combined.

Yes, It acts as proxy also by using the mod_proxy module.

A MultiViews search is enabled by the MultiViews Options.

If the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo and

/some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the

directory looking for all files named foo.*, and effectively

fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning

them the same media types and content-encodings it would

have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It

then chooses the best match to the client's requirements,

and returns that document.

Yes, Apache contain a Search engine.

You can search a report name in Apache by using the "Search

title".

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data transport requires

encryption, and many governments have restrictions upon the

import, export, and use of encryption technology.

If Apache included SSL in the base package, its

distribution would involve all sorts of legal and

bureaucratic issues, and it would no longer be freely

available.

Also, some of the technology required to talk to current

clients using SSL is patented by RSA Data Security, who

restricts its use without a license.

No. Apache is a Web (HTTP) server, not an application

server. The base package does not include any such

functionality. See the PHP project and the mod_perl project

for examples of modules that allow you to work with

databases from within the Apache environment.

The base Apache Web server package does not include support

for Java

Apache Web Server package does not include ASP support.

However, a number of projects provide ASP or ASP-like

functionality for Apache. Some of these are:

Apache::ASP

mod_mono

The first two are remnants from the NCSA times, and

generally you should be ok if you delete the first two, and

stick with httpd.conf.

To stop apache you can use.

/etc/init.d/httpd stop command.

We can check syntax for httpd configuration file by using

following command.

httpd -S

It defines whether Apache should spawn itself as a child

process (standalone) or keep everything in a single process

(inetd). Keeping it inetd conserves resources. This is

deprecated, however.

This module creates dynamically configured virtual hosts, by

allowing the IP address and/or the Host: header of the HTTP

request to be used as part of the pathname to determine what

files to serve. This allows for easy use of a huge number of

virtual hosts with similar configurations.

htpasswd is used for allowing user to authenticate for a

particular web page. such as you are running 2 or more web

pages through virtual hosting or any other method and want

to provide access for any user to access a particular page

with authentication then you can use the htpasswd for

creating user authentication file. when you run the command

htpasswd with the option -c and -m for any user it will

create a file named htpasswd in which an entry for user name

and encrypted passswd will create.

No.root process opens port 80, but never listens to it, so

no user will actually enter the site with root rights. If

you kill the root process, you will see the other kids

disappear as well.

A struts is a open source framework for creating a Java web

applications

Java applications are not stored in Apache, it can be only

connected to a other Java webapp hosting webserver using the

mod_jk connector

We can configure logs in httpd in httpd.conf under log module.