Apache Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

Originally, each recipe was going to be individually attributed, but that turned out to be logistically impossible.

Many people have helped us during the writing of this book, by posing a problem, providing a solution, proofreading, reviewing, editing, or just (!) providing moral support. This multitude, to each of whom we are profoundly grateful, includes Nat Torkington (our project editor and demonstrator of Herculean feats of patience), Sharco and Guy- from #apache on irc.freenode.net, Mads Toftum, Morbus Iff (known to the FBI under the alias Kevin Hemenway), and Andy Holman.

Ken Coar

I dedicate this book to my significantly better half, Cathy Coar, who has performed Heraclean feats of love and support on my behalf for more than two decades.

My sincere thanks go out to the crew at O’Reilly, for their deific patience and understanding. Thanks also to the WriterBase Authors Support Group and Cabal mailing lists, whereon much balm and advice was offered. Our technical reviewers provided much excellent feedback and helped make this a better book.

The people who have worked on the Apache Web server documentation, and the people who develop the software itself, get a big note of thanks, too; without the former, collating a lot of the information in this book would have been a whole lot more difficult, and without the latter, the book wouldn’t have happened at all.

The users of the software, whose frequently challenging questions populate the mailing lists, the IRC channels, ...