December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
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Organization of This Book
The chapters that follow and their contents are listed here:
- Chapter 1
Covers web servers, how Apache works, TCP/IP, HTTP, hostnames, what a client does, what happens at the server end, choosing a Unix version, and compiling and installing Apache under both Unix and Win32.
- Chapter 2
Discusses getting Apache to run, creating Apache users, runtime flags, permissions, and site.simple.
- Chapter 3
Introduces a demonstration business, Butterthlies, Inc.; some HTML; default indexing of web pages; server housekeeping; and block directives.
- Chapter 4
Explains how to connect web sites to network addresses, including the common case where more than one web site is hosted at a given network address.
- Chapter 5
Explains controlling access, collecting information about clients, cookies, DBM control, digest authentication, and anonymous access.
- Chapter 6
Covers content and language arbitration, type maps, and expiration of information.
- Chapter 7
Discusses better indexes, index options, your own indexes, and imagemaps.
- Chapter 8
Describes
Alias,ScriptAlias, and the amazingRewritemodule.- Chapter 9
Covers remote proxies and proxy caching.
- Chapter 10
Explains Apache’s facilities for tracking activity on your web sites.
- Chapter 11
Explores the many aspects of protecting an Apache server and its content from uninvited guests and intruders, including user validation, binary signatures, virtual cash, certificates, firewalls, packet filtering, secure sockets layer (SSL), ...
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