Apache The Definitive Guide [...]... you ought to read them The KEYS file contains the PGP keys of various Apache Group members It is more useful for checking future downloads of Apache than the current one (since a Bad Guy will obviously have replaced the KEYS file with his own) The distribution may have been signed by one or more Apache Group members Out of the Box Until Apache 1.3, there was no real out-of -the- box batch-capable build... this is a pretty good way to keep up-to-date After that comes consultancy on the next hot project • The more worldly ones might remember how, back in the old days of 1995, quite a lot of the people working on the web server at NCSA left for a thing called Netscape and became, in the passage of the age, zillionaires Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie... will, rather clumsily, refer to httpd /apache and hope that the reader can pick the right one Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie All rights reserved 4 Chapter 1: Getting Started htdocs Contains the HTML scripts to be served up to the site’s clients This directory and those below it, the web space, are accessible to anyone on the Web... switch from one IP number to another and maintain service during the transition In practical terms, on many versions of Unix, we run ifconfig to give multiple IP addresses to the same interface The interface in this context is actually the bit of software the driver—that handles the physical connection (Ethernet card, serial Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben... security patches Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie All rights reserved 14 Chapter 1: Getting Started machine where all this can live sensibly We put all our source directories in /usr/ local/etc /apache Go there, copy the .tar.gz or .tar Z file, and uncompress the Z version or gunzip (or gzip -d ) the gz version:... .tar.Z or: gzip -d .tar.gz Make sure that the resulting file is called .tar, or tar may turn up its nose If not, type: mv .tar Now unpack it: * % tar xvf .tar The file will make itself a subdirectory, such as apache_ 1.3.1 Keep the tar file because you will need to start fresh to make the SSL version Get into the src directory There... giving its users access to the Internet — The proxy might cache popular pages to save reaccessing them Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie All rights reserved How Does Apache Work? • 3 Be secure The Internet world is like the real world, peopled by a lot of lambs and a few wolves.* The wolves like to get into the lambs’ folds (of which... Second Edition, by Craig Hunt (O’Reilly & Associates) Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie All rights reserved 6 Chapter 1: Getting Started Although not required by protocol, by convention there is a dividing line somewhere inside this number: to the left is the network number and to the right, the host number Two machines on the same... systems It contains the requisite README file with installation instructions and other useful information The CD-ROM contains Apache distributions for Unix and Windows and the demonstration web sites referred to throughout the book The contents of the CD-ROM are organized into four directories: distributions/ This directory contains Apache and Cygwin distributions: • apache_ 1.3.3.tar.gz Apache 1.3.3 Unix... What the Client Does Once the server is set up, we can get down to business The client has the easy end: it wants web action on a particular URL such as http://www .apache. org/ What happens? The browser observes that the URL starts with http: and deduces that it should be using the HTTP protocol The “//” says that the URL is absolute,† that is, not relative to some other URL The next part must be the . or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. ISBN: 1-5 659 2-5 2 8-9 [12/99] [M] v Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben. Sample Apache Log 345 Index 355 ix Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright © 1999 Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie. All rights reserved. Preface Apache: The Definitive Guide. its users access to the Internet. — The proxy might cache popular pages to save reaccessing them. How Does Apache Work? 3 Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, eMatter Edition Copyright