Chapter 3. Installing and Configuring Apache

In this chapter, you learn the following:

How to install the Apache server

How to make configuration changes to Apache

Where Apache log and configuration files are stored

In this chapter, you install the Apache web server and familiarize yourself with its main components, including log and configuration files.

Current and Future Versions of Apache

The Apache HTTPD server website at http://httpd.apache.org shows announcements for releases of the Apache 2.0.x, Apache 2.2.x, and Apache 2.4.x versions. As you can understand by the version numbers, Apache 2.0.x is the oldest of the three versions. The Apache Software Foundation maintains all three versions, but the features in Apache 2.4.x include ...

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