1. Getting Started

How Does Apache Work?

What to Know About TCP/IP

How Does Apache Use TCP/IP?

What the Client Does

What Happens at the Server End?

Which Unix?

Which Apache?

Making Apache Under Unix

Apache Under Windows

Apache Under BS2000/OSD and AS/400

2. Our First Web Site

What Is a Web Site?

Apache's Flags

sitetoddle

Setting Up a Unix Server

Setting Up a Win32 Server

3. Toward a Real Web Site

More and Better Web Sites: sitesimple

Buerthlies, Inc, Gets Going

Block Directives

Other Directives

Two Sites and Apache

Controlling Virtual Hosts on Unix

Controlling Virtual Hosts on Win32

Virtual Hosts

Two Copies of Apache

HTTP Response Headers

Options

Restarts

htaccess

CERN Metafiles

Expirations

4. Common Gateway Interface （CGI)

Turning the Brochure into a Form

Writing and Executing Scripts

Script Directives

Useful Scripts

Debugging Scripts

Setting Environment Variables

suEXEC on Unix

Handlers

Actions

5. Authentication

Authentication Protocol

Authentication Directives

Passwords Under Unix

Passwords Under Win32

New Order Form

Order, Allow, and Deny

Digest Authentication

Anonymous Access

Experiments

Automatic User Information

Using htaccess Files

Overrides

6. MIME, Content and Language Negotiation

MIME Types

Content Negotiation

Language Negotiation

Type Maps

Browsers and HTTP/1.1

7. Indexing

Making Better Indexes in Apache

Making Our Own Indexes

Imagemaps

8. Redirection

Rewrite

Speling

9. Proxy Server

Proxy Directives

Caching

Setup

10. Server-Side Includes

File Size

File Modification Time

Includes

Execute CGI

Echo

XBitHack

XSSI

11. What's Going On?

Status

Server Status

Server Info

Logging the Action

12. Extra Modules

Authentication

Blocking Access

Counters

Faster CGI Programs

FrontPage from Microsoft

Languages and Internationalization

Server-Side Scripting

Throttling Connections

URL Rewriting

Miscellaneous

MIME Magic

13. Security

Internal and External Users

Apache's Security Precautions

BinarySignatures, Virtual Cash

Firewalls

Legal Issues

Secure Sockets Layer: How to Do It

Apache-SSL's Directives

Cipher Suites

SSL and CGI

14. The Apache API

Pools

Per-Server Configuration

Per-DirectoConfiguration

PerRequest Information

Access to Configuration and Request Information

Functions

15. Writing Apache Modules

Overview

Status Codes

The Module Structure

A Complete Example

General Hints

A. Support Organizations

B. The echo Program

C. NCSA and Apache Compatibility

D.SSL Protocol

E. Sample Apache Log

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