Apache Module mod_ssl Description: Strong cryptography using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols Status: Extension ModuleIdentifier: ssl_module SourceFile: mod_ssl.c Summary This module provides SSL v3 and TLS v1.x support for the Apache HTTP Server. SSL v2 is no longer supported. This module relies on OpenSSL to provide the cryptography engine. Further details, discussion, and examples are provided in the SSL documentation. Environment Variables T

htdbm - Manipulate DBM password databases htdbm is used to manipulate the DBM format files used to store usernames and password for basic authentication of HTTP users via mod_authn_dbm. See the dbmmanage documentation for more information about these DBM files. Synopsis htdbm [ -TDBTYPE ] [ -i ] [ -c ] [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] [ -t ] [ -v ] filename username htdbm -b [ -TDBTYPE ] [ -c ] [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] [ -t ] [ -v ] filename username password htdbm -n [

Apache Module mod_log_config Description: Logging of the requests made to the server Status: Base ModuleIdentifier: log_config_module SourceFile: mod_log_config.c Summary This module provides for flexible logging of client requests. Logs are written in a customizable format, and may be written directly to a file, or to an external program. Conditional logging is provided so that individual requests may be included or excluded from the logs based on characteristics of the request. Three direc

htcacheclean - Clean up the disk cache htcacheclean is used to keep the size of mod_cache_disk's storage within a given size limit, or limit on inodes in use. This tool can run either manually or in daemon mode. When running in daemon mode, it sleeps in the background and checks the cache directory at regular intervals for cached content to be removed. You can stop the daemon cleanly by sending it a TERM or INT signal. When run manually, a once off check of the cache directory is made for cach

Apache Module mod_usertrack Description: Clickstream logging of user activity on a site Status: Extension ModuleIdentifier: usertrack_module SourceFile: mod_usertrack.c Summary Provides tracking of a user through your website via browser cookies. Logging mod_usertrack sets a cookie which can be logged via mod_log_config configurable logging formats: LogFormat "%{Apache}n %r %t" usertrack CustomLog logs/clickstream.log usertrack CookieDomain Directive Description: The domain to which

Apache Module mod_filter Description: Context-sensitive smart filter configuration module Status: Base ModuleIdentifier: filter_module SourceFile: mod_filter.c Compatibility: Version 2.1 and later Summary This module enables smart, context-sensitive configuration of output content filters. For example, apache can be configured to process different content-types through different filters, even when the content-type is not known in advance (e.g. in a proxy). mod_filter works by introducing ind

Apache Module mod_include Description: Server-parsed html documents (Server Side Includes) Status: Base ModuleIdentifier: include_module SourceFile: mod_include.c Summary This module provides a filter which will process files before they are sent to the client. The processing is controlled by specially formatted SGML comments, referred to as elements. These elements allow conditional text, the inclusion of other files or programs, as well as the setting and printing of environment variables.

Apache Performance Tuning Apache 2.x is a general-purpose webserver, designed to provide a balance of flexibility, portability, and performance. Although it has not been designed specifically to set benchmark records, Apache 2.x is capable of high performance in many real-world situations. Compared to Apache 1.3, release 2.x contains many additional optimizations to increase throughput and scalability. Most of these improvements are enabled by default. However, there are compile-time and run-t

Apache Module mod_cgi Description: Execution of CGI scripts Status: Base ModuleIdentifier: cgi_module SourceFile: mod_cgi.c Summary Any file that has the handler cgi-script will be treated as a CGI script, and run by the server, with its output being returned to the client. Files acquire this handler either by having a name containing an extension defined by the AddHandler directive, or by being in a ScriptAlias directory. For an introduction to using CGI scripts with Apache, see our tutoria

Apache Module mod_access_compat Description: Group authorizations based on host (name or IP address) Status: Extension ModuleIdentifier: access_compat_module SourceFile: mod_access_compat.c Compatibility: Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3 as a compatibility module with previous versions of Apache httpd 2.x. The directives provided by this module have been deprecated by the new authz refactoring. Please see mod_authz_host Summary The directives provided by mod_access_compat are used in <