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Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators

ISBN: 0596529945
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 215

Authors: Rich Bowen, Ken Coar

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Preface
• What s in This Book
• Platform Notes
• Other Books
• Other Sources
• How This Book Is Organized
• Conventions Used in This Book
• We d Like to Hear from You
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Installation
• Recipe 1.1 Installing from Red Hat Linux s Packages
• Recipe 1.2 Installing Apache on Windows
• Recipe 1.3 Downloading the Apache Sources
• Recipe 1.4 Building Apache from the Sources
• Recipe 1.5 Installing with ApacheToolbox
• Recipe 1.6 Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Apache
• Recipe 1.7 Uninstalling Apache
• Chapter 2. Adding Common Modules
• Recipe 2.1 Installing a Generic Third-Party Module
• Recipe 2.2 Installing mod_dav on a Unixish System
• Recipe 2.3 Installing mod_dav on Windows
• Recipe 2.4 Installing mod_perl on a Unixish System
• Recipe 2.5 Installing mod_php on a Unixish System
• Recipe 2.6 Installing mod_php on Windows
• Recipe 2.7 Installing the mod_snake Python Module
• Recipe 2.8 Installing mod_ssl
• Chapter 3. Logging
• Recipe 3.1 Getting More Details in Your Log Entries
• Recipe 3.2 Getting More Detailed Errors
• Recipe 3.3 Logging POST Contents
• Recipe 3.4 Logging a Proxied Client s IP Address
• Recipe 3.5 Logging Client MAC Addresses
• Recipe 3.6 Logging Cookies
• Recipe 3.7 Not Logging Image Requests from Local Pages
• Recipe 3.8 Logging Requests by Day or Hour
• Recipe 3.9 Rotating Logs on the First of the Month
• Recipe 3.10 Logging Hostnames Instead of IP Addresses
• Recipe 3.11 Maintaining Separate Logs for Each Virtual Host
• Recipe 3.12 Logging Proxy Requests
• Recipe 3.13 Logging Errors for Virtual Hosts to Multiple Files
• Recipe 3.14 Logging Server IP Addresses
• Recipe 3.15 Logging the Referring Page
• Recipe 3.16 Logging the Name of the Browser Software
• Recipe 3.17 Logging Arbitrary Request Header Fields
• Recipe 3.18 Logging Arbitrary Response Header Fields
• Recipe 3.19 Logging Activity to a MySQL Database
• Recipe 3.20 Logging to syslog
• Recipe 3.21 Logging User Directories
• Chapter 4. Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.1 Setting Up Name-Based Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.2 Designating One Name-Based Virtual Host as the Default
• Recipe 4.3 Setting Up Address-Based Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.4 Creating a Default Address-Based Virtual Host
• Recipe 4.5 Mixing Address-Based and Name-Based Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.6 Mass Virtual Hosting with mod_vhost_alias
• Recipe 4.7 Mass Virtual Hosting Using Rewrite Rules
• Recipe 4.8 SSL and Name-Based Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.9 Logging for Each Virtual Host
• Recipe 4.10 Splitting Up a LogFile
• Recipe 4.11 Port-Based Virtual Hosts
• Recipe 4.12 Displaying the Same Content on Several Addresses
• Chapter 5. Aliases, Redirecting, and Rewriting
• Recipe 5.1 Showing Highlighted PHP Source Without Symlinking
• Recipe 5.2 Mapping a URL to a Directory
• Recipe 5.3 Creating a New URL for Existing Content
• Recipe 5.4 Giving Users Their Own URL
• Recipe 5.5 Aliasing Several URLs with a Single Directive
• Recipe 5.6 Mapping Several URLs to the Same CGI Directory
• Recipe 5.7 Creating a CGI Directory for Each User
• Recipe 5.8 Redirecting to Another Location
• Recipe 5.9 Redirecting Several URLs to the Same Destination
• Recipe 5.10 Permitting Case-Insensitive URLs
• Recipe 5.11 Replacing Text in Requested URLs
• Recipe 5.12 Rewriting Path Information to CGI Arguments
• Recipe 5.13 Denying Access to Unreferred Requests
• Recipe 5.14 Rewriting Based on the Query String
• Recipe 5.15 Redirecting All -or Part -of Your Server to SSL
• Recipe 5.16 Turning Directories into Hostnames
• Recipe 5.17 Redirecting All Requests to a Single Host
• Recipe 5.18 Turning Document Names into Arguments
• Chapter 6. Security
• Recipe 6.1 Using System Account Information for Web Authentication
• Recipe 6.2 Setting Up Single-Use Passwords
• Recipe 6.3 Expiring Passwords
• Recipe 6.4 Limiting Upload Size
• Recipe 6.5 Restricting Images from Being Used Off-Site
• Recipe 6.6 Requiring Both Weak and Strong Authentication
• Recipe 6.7 Managing .htpasswd Files
• Recipe 6.8 Making Password Files for Digest Authentication
• Recipe 6.9 Relaxing Security in a Subdirectory
• Recipe 6.10 Lifting Restrictions Selectively
• Recipe 6.11 Authorizing Using File Ownership
• Recipe 6.12 Storing User Credentials in a MySQL Database
• Recipe 6.13 Accessing the Authenticated Username
• Recipe 6.14 Obtaining the Password Used to Authenticate
• Recipe 6.15 Preventing Brute-Force Password Attacks
• Recipe 6.16 Using Digest Versus Basic Authentication
• Recipe 6.17 Accessing Credentials Embedded in URLs
• Recipe 6.18 Securing WebDAV
• Recipe 6.19 Enabling WebDAV Without Making Files Writable by the Web User
• Recipe 6.20 Restricting Proxy Access to Certain URLs
• Recipe 6.21 Protecting Files with a Wrapper
• Recipe 6.22 Protecting All Files Except a Subset
• Recipe 6.23 Protecting Server Files from Malicious Scripts
• Recipe 6.24 Setting Correct File Permissions
• Recipe 6.25 Running a Minimal Module Set
• Recipe 6.26 Restricting Access to Files Outside Your Web Root
• Recipe 6.27 Limiting Methods by User
• Recipe 6.28 Restricting Range Requests
• Chapter 7. SSL
• Recipe 7.1 Installing SSL
• Recipe 7.2 Generating SSL Certificates
• Recipe 7.3 Generating a Trusted CA
• Recipe 7.4 Serving a Portion of Your Site via SSL
• Recipe 7.5 Authenticating with Client Certificates
• Chapter 8. Dynamic Content
• Recipe 8.1 Enabling a CGI Directory
• Recipe 8.2 Enabling CGI Scripts in Non-ScriptAliased Directories
• Recipe 8.3 Using Windows File Extensionsto Launch CGI Programs
• Recipe 8.4 Using Extensions to Identify CGI Scripts
• Recipe 8.5 Testing That CGI Is Set Up Correctly
• Recipe 8.6 Reading Form Parameters
• Recipe 8.7 Invoking a CGI Program for Certain Content Types
• Recipe 8.8 Getting SSIs to Work
• Recipe 8.9 Displaying Last Modified Date
• Recipe 8.10 Including a Standard Header
• Recipe 8.11 Including the Output of a CGI Program
• Recipe 8.12 Running CGI Scripts as a Different User with suexec
• Recipe 8.13 Installing a mod_perl Handler from CPAN
• Recipe 8.14 Writing a mod_perl Handler
• Recipe 8.15 Enabling PHP Script Handling
• Recipe 8.16 Verifying PHP Installation
• Chapter 9. Error Handling
• Recipe 9.1 Handling a Missing Host Field
• Recipe 9.2 Changing the Response Status for CGI Scripts
• Recipe 9.3 Customized Error Messages
• Recipe 9.4 Providing Error Documents in Multiple Languages
• Recipe 9.5 Redirecting Invalid URLs to Some Other Page
• Recipe 9.6 Making Internet Explorer Display Your Error Page
• Recipe 9.7 Notification on Error Conditions
• Chapter 10. Proxies
• Recipe 10.1 Securing Your Proxy Server
• Recipe 10.2 Preventing Your Proxy Server from Being Used as an Open Mail Relay
• Recipe 10.3 Forwarding Requests to Another Server
• Recipe 10.4 Blocking Proxied Requests to Certain Places
• Recipe 10.5 Proxying mod_perl Content to Another Server
• Recipe 10.6 Configuring a Caching Proxy Server
• Recipe 10.7 Filtering Proxied Content
• Recipe 10.8 Requiring Authentication for a Proxied Server
• Chapter 11. Performance
• Recipe 11.1 Determining How Much Memory You Need
• Recipe 11.2 Benchmarking Apache with ab
• Recipe 11.3 Tuning Keepalive Settings
• Recipe 11.4 Getting a Snapshot of Your Site s Activity
• Recipe 11.5 Avoiding DNS Lookups
• Recipe 11.6 Optimizing Symbolic Links
• Recipe 11.7 Minimizing the Performance Impact of .htaccess Files
• Recipe 11.8 Disabling Content Negotiation
• Recipe 11.9 Optimizing Process Creation
• Recipe 11.10 Tuning Thread Creation
• Recipe 11.11 Caching Frequently Viewed Files
• Recipe 11.12 Sharing Load Between Servers Using mod_proxy
• Recipe 11.13 Distributing Load Evenly Between Several Servers
• Recipe 11.14 Caching Directory Listings
• Recipe 11.15 Speeding Up Perl CGI Programs with mod_perl
• Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Topics
• Recipe 12.1 Placing Directives Properly
• Recipe 12.2 Renaming .htaccess Files
• Recipe 12.3 Generating DirectoryFolder Listings
• Recipe 12.4 Solving the Trailing Slash Problem
• Recipe 12.5 Setting the Content-Type According to Browser Capability
• Recipe 12.6 Handling Missing Host: Header Fields
• Recipe 12.7 Alternate Default Document
• Recipe 12.8 Setting Up a Default Favicon
• Appendix A. Using Regular Expressions in Apache
• A.1 What Directives Use Regular Expressions?
• Appendix B. Troubleshooting
• B.1 Troubleshooting Methodology
• B.2 Debugging the Configuration
• B.3 Debugging Premature End of Script Headers
• B.4 Common Problems on Windows
• B.5 Fixing Build-Time Error Messages
• B.6 Getting Server-Side Includes to Work
• B.7 Debugging Rewrites That Result in Not Found Errors
• B.8 .htaccess Files Having No Effect
• B.9 Address Already in Use
• Colophon
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