This indepth tutorial by Blair Ireland covers everything you need to know about installing Apache, from getting started, through to configuring and optomizing it!
Tutorial Sections
- Download Apache
- Compiling the Source
- Using Apache
- Know your Directives
- Server Side Includes
- Make those CGI's Work
- Error Documents
- Content Negotiation
- A Single Config File
- Rotating Logs
- Get some Extras
- Buy a Book
- File Lookups
- Hostname Lookups
- Content Negotiation
- Hardware
- Server Processes
Let us get started then, shall we?
Introduction
Most people associate quality and popularity with price. On the Web though, this is not the case. What is the most popular, highest quality Web server available?
- The Netscape-Enterprise server? Wrong.
- Microsoft-IIS? Wrong again
- Apache? Bingo, and by a staggering amount.
According to Netcraft's December 1999 Web server survey (Slashdot, TheFinancial Times, Linux.com, and JavaSoft not to mention tons of other sites.
The Apache Project (http://www.apache.org/) started back in 1995 when a group of Webmasters decided they needed a stable, powerful server for an upcoming site (one of these sites washttp://www.hotwired.com/). At the time, the most popular server software available on the Web was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The developer, Rob McCool, left the organization and all development was stalled. At the time, Webmasters were making their own extensions and bug-fixes for the server, but these were not distributed in any way. The group of Webmasters decided to co-ordinate the changes to the server, which later became known as 'patches'. This is how the Apache Server got its name: A-Patchy Server. A year after the release of the Apache Server, the small group of hackers had created the #1 server on the Internet.
Being able to view the source code for the server is one of its biggest advantages. Not only can you modify and add features to the server yourself (providing you know C++, or Perl if using mod_perl), but the vast number of developers out there have made modules to add on to the server.
Being able to view the source code for the server is one of its biggest advantages. Not only can you modify and add features to the server yourself (providing you know C++, or Perl if using mod_perl), but the vast number of developers out there have made modules to add on to the server.
Due to it's popularity, we decided to create a group of tips and tutorials to help you install, configure/customize and optimize your Apache server. Since Apache is available for Unix and Windows, we will specify whether a tip is platform-specific.
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