Chapter 26. Modules Included with Apache

 

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

 
 --T.S. Eliot

As we saw in the previous chapter, modules are the heart and soul of why Apache is so great. The Apache core is lightweight and does as little as possible. All the really interesting functionality is implemented in modules.

In this chapter, we talk about the standard modules that ship with Apache. Some of them are not compiled in by default, but can be enabled by a flag at compile time. We'll talk about what each module does, and how to get it installed on your server.

Note that ...

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