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| <LI VALUE="9"><STRONG>Features</STRONG> |
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| <LI><A HREF="#proxy">Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</A> |
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| <LI><A HREF="#multiviews">What are "multiviews"?</A> |
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| <LI><A HREF="#putsupport">Why can't I publish to my Apache server |
| using PUT on Netscape Gold and other programs?</A> |
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| <LI><A HREF="#SSL-i">Why doesn't Apache include SSL?</A> |
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| <LI><A HREF="#search">Does Apache include a search engine?</A> |
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| <LI><A NAME="proxy"> |
| <STRONG>Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</STRONG> |
| </A> |
| <P> |
| Apache version 1.1 and above comes with a |
| <A HREF="../mod/mod_proxy.html">proxy module</A>. |
| If compiled in, this will make Apache act as a caching-proxy server. |
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| <STRONG>What are "multiviews"?</STRONG> |
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| <P> |
| "Multiviews" is the general name given to the Apache |
| server's ability to provide language-specific document variants in |
| response to a request. This is documented quite thoroughly in the |
| <A HREF="../content-negotiation.html" REL="Help">content negotiation</A> |
| description page. In addition, <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> carried an |
| article on this subject entitled |
| "<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/negotiation" REL="Help" |
| ><CITE>Content Negotiation Explained</CITE></A>". |
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| <STRONG>Why can't I publish to my Apache server using PUT on |
| Netscape Gold and other programs?</STRONG> |
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| <P> |
| Because you need to install and configure a script to handle |
| the uploaded files. This script is often called a "PUT" handler. |
| There are several available, but they may have security problems. |
| Using FTP uploads may be easier and more secure, at least for now. |
| For more information, see the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article |
| <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/put" |
| ><CITE>Publishing Pages with PUT</CITE></A>. |
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| <STRONG>Why doesn't Apache include SSL?</STRONG> |
| </A> |
| <P> |
| SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data transport requires encryption, and many |
| governments have restrictions upon the import, export, and use of |
| encryption technology. If Apache included SSL in the base package, |
| its distribution would involve all sorts of legal and bureaucratic |
| issues, and it would no longer be freely available. Also, some of |
| the technology required to talk to current clients using SSL is |
| patented by <A HREF="http://www.rsa.com/">RSA Data Security</A>, |
| who restricts its use without a license. |
| </P> |
| <P> |
| Some SSL implementations of Apache are available, however; see the |
| "<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/related_projects.html" |
| >related projects</A>" |
| page at the main Apache web site. |
| </P> |
| <P> |
| You can find out more about this topic in the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> |
| article about |
| <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssl" REL="Help" |
| ><CITE>Apache and Secure Transactions</CITE></A>. |
| </P> |
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| </LI> |
| <LI><A NAME="footer"> |
| <STRONG>How can I attach a footer to my documents |
| without using SSI?</STRONG> |
| </A> |
| <P> |
| You can make arbitrary changes to static documents by configuring an |
| <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_actions.html#action"> |
| Action</A> which launches a CGI script. The CGI is then |
| responsible for setting a content-type and delivering the requested |
| document (the location of which is passed in the |
| <SAMP>PATH_TRANSLATED</SAMP> environment variable), along with |
| whatever footer is needed. |
| </P> |
| <P> |
| Busy sites may not want to run a CGI script on every request, and |
| should consider using an Apache module to add the footer. There are |
| several third party modules available through the <A |
| HREF="http://modules.apache.org/">Apache Module Registry</A> which |
| will add footers to documents. These include mod_trailer, PHP |
| (<SAMP>php3_auto_append_file</SAMP>), and mod_perl |
| (<SAMP>Apache::Sandwich</SAMP>). |
| </P> |
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| </LI> |
| <LI><A NAME="search"> |
| <STRONG>Does Apache include a search engine?</STRONG> |
| </A> |
| <P>Apache does not include a search engine, but there are many good |
| commercial and free search engines which can be used easily with |
| Apache. Some of them are listed on the <A |
| HREF="http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html">Web Site Search |
| Tools</A> page. Open source search engines that are often used with |
| Apache include <A HREF="http://www.htdig.org/">ht://Dig</A> and <A |
| HREF="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/">SWISH-E</A>. |
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