October 2008
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
3h 2m
English
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Appendix A. Programs and Modules
The Apache distribution includes a number of support utilities and modules.
Support Utilities
The support utilities, listed in Table A-1, are usually installed in the bin or sbin subdirectory of the server root directory, but this may vary depending on the distribution.
Table A-1. Programs
Program | Description |
| ApacheBench—a simple web server benchmarking tool |
| Apache runtime control script |
| Apache Extension Tool—used to build Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) |
| Utility to manage DBM-format user-authentication files |
| Alternative utility to manage DBM-format user-authentication files |
| Utility to manage flat-file user-authentication files for Digest authentication |
| Utility to manage flat-file user-authentication files for Basic authentication |
| Utility to convert plain text mod_rewrite map files to DBM format |
| Utility to postprocess access log files to resolve IP addresses |
| Logging filter to rotate log files |
| Simple perl script to split a combined log file for multiple virtual hosts where the first field is the hostname |
| Wrapper program to execute CGI scripts under a different user and group from those under which the server processes run (invoked directly from Apache) |
Apache Modules
There are over 80 modules included in the Apache 2.2.9 distribution, as listed in Table A-2. Further modules can be found on the Apache Module Registry (http://modules.apache.com/).
Table A-2. Apache modules
Name | Status ... |
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