3.3. Configuration
Apache was designed to be modular, so you can run as lean, or as bloated, a webserver as you like. We discuss the basic configuration and some minor tweaks; all the directives are described at httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/directives.html, but during your Linux installation, the documents were placed in /var/www/html/manual/mod/directives.html. You can reach them via the link on the default web page (for the time being, anyway, because we will be moving these documents later): http://localhost/manual/mod/directives.html.
3.3.1. Modifying the Default Configuration
Apache’s configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. We’ll start with the default configuration file from Apache version 1.3.24. [6] There are many comments in ...
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