A Closer Look At Configuration

Compilation

Rules
    Rule STATUS=yes          // Provides interactive server status information 
                             // status_module must be included and status 
                             // support must be enabled in access.conf
    Rule SOCKS4=no           // Socks support ??
    Rule IRIXNIS=no          // IRIX Unix running NIS
    Rule WANTHSREGEX=default // Henry Spencer's POSIX regex implementation

Modules (listed in order)
    mime_module              Determine file type by file name
    access_module            Access control based on client hostname or IP 
                             address
    auth_module              User authentication via text files
    negotiation_module       Provide content negotiation via type maps and 
                             multiviews
    includes_module          Provide server parsed HTML documents
    dir_module               Provide directory indexing
    cgi_module               Provide execution of CGI scripts
    userdir_module           Allow user specific directories
    alias_module             Map different parts of the host filesystem in 
                             the document tree
    env_module               Allow for passing of environment variables to 
                             CGI/SSI
    config_log_module        Configurable log format and supports Common 
                             Logfile Format
    asis_module              Allow httpd/send-as-is files to be sent without 
                             being processed
    imap_module              Replace CGI imagemap program functionality with 
                             .map files
    action_module            Provide execution of CGI scripts based on media 
                             type or request method
    browser_module           Set environmental variables based on browser type
    agent_log_module         Log client user agent
    referer_log_module       Log documents which reference documents on server
    rewrite_module           Provide a rule-based rewriting engine
    cern_meta_module         Provide CERN HTTPD metafile symantics, custom 
                             HTTP headers
    status_module            Provide current server performance statistics
    info_module              Provide a comprehensive overview of current 
                             server configuration, useful for debugging
    anon_auth_module         Provide functionality similar to anonymous ftp
    db_auth_module           User authentication via Berkeley DB files
    dbm_auth_module          User authentication via DBM files
    msql_auth_module         User authentication via mSQL database
    digest_module            User authentication via MD5 Digest Authentication
    expires_module           Control HTTP expires header by directive
    headers_module           Allow customization of HTTP response headers
    dld_module               Provide loading of executale code and modules 
                             into the server at startup time
    usertrack_module         Log user specific activity, replaces "cookie" 
                             module
    proxy_module             Provide a caching proxy server

Proposed Directory Hierarchy & Permissions

/tmp/web# ls -lR
total 7
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 17 15:09 bin
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 17 15:35 cgi-bin
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 17 16:15 conf
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 17 15:11 htdocs
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         2048 Feb 17 16:16 icons
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 17 16:18 logs

bin:
total 218
---x------   1 root     root       221530 Feb 17 15:09 httpd

cgi-bin:
total 0

conf:
total 20
-r--------   1 root     root         2110 Feb 17 15:09 access.conf
-r--------   1 root     root         6145 Feb 17 15:09 httpd.conf
-r--------   1 root     root         2394 Feb 17 15:09 mime.types
-r--------   1 root     root         6591 Feb 17 15:09 srm.conf

htdocs:
total 1
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          329 Feb 17 15:11 index.html

icons:
( everything here is -r--r--r--, files not shown to conserve space )

logs:
total 6
-rw-------   1 root     root          332 Feb 17 16:14 access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     65535        2052 Feb 17 16:18 apache_status
-rw-------   1 root     root          353 Feb 17 16:18 error_log
-rw-------   1 root     65535           5 Feb 17 16:18 httpd.pid

The Configuration Files

Starting the Apache Web Server

For Web Services to be available at boot time a startup script or "rc" file should be created. Here is my startup script.

Screen Shots

Last Modified: 17 February 1997