| Apache |
| Version 1.1 (and up) |
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| What is it? |
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| Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for the NCSA |
| server version 1.3 (or 1.4). It fixes numerous bugs in the NCSA server and |
| includes many frequently requested new features, and has an API which |
| allows it to be extended to meet users' needs more easily. |
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| Documentation |
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| All the documentation is on-line on the WWW, via <URL:http://www.apache.org/>. |
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| Installation |
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| This program is distributed in source form only. In order to compile |
| it, you must set compile-time options (in particular, system type) for |
| your system by editing a Configuration file, run a script which generates |
| a Makefile and a small piece of C code, and then compile it. |
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| For instructions on compilation, see the file 'INSTALL' in the src/ directory. |
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| After compilation, you will have a binary called "httpd" in the src/ |
| directory. If you received a binary distribution of apache, you |
| should have this file already. |
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| The next step is to edit the configuration files for the server. In |
| the subdirectory called "conf" you should find distribution versions |
| of the three configuration files: srm.conf-dist, access.conf-dist, and |
| httpd.conf-dist. Copy them to srm.conf, access.conf, httpd.conf |
| respectively. |
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| First edit httpd.conf. This sets up general attributes about the |
| server - the port number, the user it runs as, etc. Next edit the |
| srm.conf file - this sets up the root of the document tree, special |
| functions like server-parsed HTML or internal imagemap parsing, etc. |
| Finally, edit the access.conf file to at least set the base cases of |
| access. Documentation for all of these is located at |
| <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/>. |
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| Finally, make a call to httpd, with a -f to the full path to the |
| httpd.conf file. I.e., the common case: |
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| /usr/local/etc/apache/src/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf |
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| And voila! The server should be running. |
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| By default the srm.conf and access.conf files are located by name - to |
| specifically call them by other names, use the AccessConfig and |
| ResourceConfig directives in httpd.conf. |
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| The Latest Version |
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| Details of the latest version are in the apache project page (above). |
| The most recent distribution is also available by anonymous ftp |
| from ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk in the directory /pub/WWW/apache. |
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| Licencing |
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| Please see the file called LICENSE. |
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