1. Chapter 1 Getting Started

   1. What Does a Web Server Do?

   2. How Apache Works

   3. Apache and Networking

   4. How HTTP Clients Work

   5. What Happens at the Server End?

   6. Planning the Apache Installation

   7. Windows?

   8. Which Apache?

   9. Installing Apache

   10. Building Apache 1.3.X Under Unix

   11. New Features in Apache v2

   12. Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix

   13. Apache Under Windows

2. Chapter 2 Configuring Apache: The First Steps

   1. What's Behind an Apache Web Site?

   2. site.toddle

   3. Setting Up a Unix Server

   4. Setting Up a Win32 Server

   5. Directives

   6. Shared Objects

3. Chapter 3 Toward a Real Web Site

   1. More and Better Web Sites: site.simple

   2. Butterthlies, Inc., Gets Going

   3. Block Directives

   4. Other Directives

   5. HTTP Response Headers

   6. Restarts

   7. .htaccess

   8. CERN Metafiles

   9. Expirations

4. Chapter 4 Virtual Hosts

   1. Two Sites and Apache

   2. Virtual Hosts

   3. Two Copies of Apache

   4. Dynamically Configured Virtual Hosting

5. Chapter 5 Authentication

   1. Authentication Protocol

   2. Authentication Directives

   3. Passwords Under Unix

   4. Passwords Under Win32

   5. Passwords over the Web

   6. From the Client's Point of View

   7. CGI Scripts

   8. Variations on a Theme

   9. Order, Allow, and Deny

   10. DBM Files on Unix

   11. Digest Authentication

   12. Anonymous Access

   13. Experiments

   14. Automatic User Information

   15. Using .htaccess Files

   16. Overrides

6. Chapter 6 Content Description and Modification

   1. MIME Types

   2. Content Negotiation

   3. Language Negotiation

   4. Type Maps

   5. Browsers and HTTP 1.1

   6. Filters

7. Chapter 7 Indexing

   1. Making Better Indexes in Apache

   2. Making Our Own Indexes

   3. Imagemaps

   4. Image Map Directives

8. Chapter 8 Redirection

   1. Alias

   2. Rewrite

   3. Speling

9. Chapter 9 Proxying

   1. Security

   2. Proxy Directives

   3. Apparent Bug

   4. Performance

   5. Setup

10. Chapter 10 Logging

    1. Logging by Script and Database

    2. Apache's Logging Facilities

    3. Configuration Logging

    4. Status

11. Chapter 11 Security

    1. Internal and External Users

    2. Binary Signatures, Virtual Cash

    3. Certificates

    4. Firewalls

    5. Legal Issues

    6. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

    7. Apache's Security Precautions

    8. SSL Directives

    9. Cipher Suites

    10. Security in Real Life

    11. Future Directions

12. Chapter 12 Running a Big Web Site

    1. Machine Setup

    2. Server Security

    3. Managing a Big Site

    4. Supporting Software

    5. Scalability

    6. Load Balancing

13. Chapter 13 Building Applications

    1. Web Sites as Applications

    2. Providing Application Logic

    3. XML, XSLT, and Web Applications

14. Chapter 14 Server-Side Includes

    1. File Size

    2. File Modification Time

    3. Includes

    4. Execute CGI

    5. Echo

    6. Apache v2: SSI Filters

15. Chapter 15 PHP

    1. Installing PHP

    2. Site.php

16. Chapter 16 CGI and Perl

    1. The World of CGI

    2. Telling Apache About the Script

    3. Setting Environment Variables

    4. Cookies

    5. Script Directives

    6. suEXEC on Unix

    7. Handlers

    8. Actions

    9. Browsers

17. Chapter 17 mod_perl

    1. How mod_perl Works

    2. mod_perl Documentation

    3. Installing mod_perl — The Simple Way

    4. Modifying Your Scripts to Run Under mod_perl

    5. Global Variables

    6. Strict Pregame

    7. Loading Changes

    8. Opening and Closing Files

    9. Configuring Apache to Use mod_perl

18. Chapter 18 mod_jserv and Tomcat

    1. mod_jserv

    2. Tomcat

    3. Connecting Tomcat to Apache

19. Chapter 19 XML and Cocoon

    1. XML

    2. XML and Perl

    3. Cocoon

    4. Cocoon 1.8 and JServ

    5. Cocoon 2.0.3 and Tomcat

    6. Testing Cocoon

20. Chapter 20 The Apache API

    1. Documentation

    2. APR

    3. Pools

    4. Per-Server Configuration

    5. Per-Directory Configuration

    6. Per-Request Information

    7. Access to Configuration and Request Information

    8. Hooks, Optional Hooks, and Optional Functions

    9. Filters, Buckets, and Bucket Brigades

    10. Modules

21. Chapter 21 Writing Apache Modules

    1. Overview

    2. Status Codes

    3. The Module Structure

    4. A Complete Example

    5. General Hints

    6. Porting to Apache 2.0

1. Appendix A The Apache 1.x API

   1. Pools

   2. Per-Server Configuration

   3. Per-Directory Configuration

   4. Per-Request Information

   5. Access to Configuration and Request Information

   6. Functions

2. Colophon

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