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The work of Peter Wainwright and his team (Wainwright wrote several of Wrox Press's well-regarded Perl books) is typical of the Wrox approach to subjects. Different people wrote various sections, and they've all been edited into the "guided tour" format (let's try this, then this, and now look at this...). That style works well for teaching and documenting Apache, largely because most of the sections include a balance of explanatory text, command summaries, and configuration file listings. The style seems a bit scattershot from time to time, but it's easy to zero in on what you need via the index. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to set up, use, and adjust the version 2.0 release of Apache Web server. Much of the authorial team's work deals with setting up Apache to minimize security holes and maximize performance, but other sections deal with the ins and outs of new features like IPv6 address management and Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs).
Book Description
With the introduction of OS-specific Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) and the Apache Portable Runtime, Apache 2.0 runs on more platforms with greater ease. Apache 2.0 brings a significant revision of the Apache build system, a more powerful architecture, and numerous improvements and additions to modules and directives. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all that is new in Apache 2.0, together with the most recent enhancements to Apache 1.3. New capabilities, support for embedded scripting, performance tuning, monitoring, and server security are presented in focused, easily applied sections. What does this book cover?
- The Apache 2.0 web server, including upgrades and updates from Apache 1.3
- New features in Apache 1.3, and migration of Apache 1.3 servers to Apache 2.0
- Installing Apache from a binary distribution or building from source for UNIX and Windows
- Delivering dynamic content efficiently and securely with CGI and FastCGI
- Virtual hosting with Apache - simple, complex, and en masse
- Proxying and caching, fault tolerance and clustering, and benchmarking of Apache servers
- Monitoring and securing Apache servers
- Extending Apache with third-party modules for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Java, Ruby, and WebDAV
