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Director y Contents

bin Program files

sbin Administrative program files (often placed in the bin

subdirectory)

libexec Loadable modules

man Manual pages (often stored in the system man directo-

ries)

conf Configuration files (often stored in the /etc directory

hierarchy)

icons Icon image files

htdocs HTML documents

cgi-bin CGI scripts

include Apache C language include files (needed for compiling

third-party modules)

run Runtime status files (often stored with the log files)

logs Log files

pr oxy Proxy cache hierarchy (if caching is enabled)

Suppor t Utilities

The Apache distribution includes a number of support utilities

that are usually installed in the bin or sbin subdirectory.

These are shown in the following table.

Program Descr iption

ab Simple benchmarking tool

apachectl Apache runtime control script

apxs Apache Extension Tool—used to build Dynamic

Shared Objects (DSOs)

dbmmanage Utility to manage DBM-format user-authentication

files

htdigest Utility to manage flat-file user-authentication files

for digest authentication

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