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Extending Apache to Meet Your Needs

Sebastopol, CA--One facet of the Apache web server that makes it such a
remarkable piece of software is that it includes extensibility by design.
That is, if the Apache package doesn't do just what you want right out of
the box, you can generally extend it so that it does. Dozens of extensions
are included as part of the package distributed by the Apache Software
Foundation. "If one of those doesn't meet your needs," advise Ken Coar and
Rich Bowen, authors of the "Apache Cookbook" (Second Edition, O'Reilly, US
$34.99), "with several million users out there, there is an excellent
chance that someone else has already done your work for you, someone who
has concocted a recipe of changes or enhancements to the server that will
satisfy your requirements."
The "Apache Cookbook" is a collection of these recipes drawn from the fire
hose of the Usenet newsgroups, the ApacheFAQ, Apache-related mailing
lists, emailed how-to questions, problems and answers posed on IRC
channels, and volunteered submissions. They all come from real-life
situations, encountered either by Coar and Bowen or others who have come
to them for help. Topics range from basic compilation of the source code
to complex problems involving the treatment of URLs that require SSL
encryption, including the following:
* Installing the most common third-party modules
* Recording visits to your web site(s), and using Apache's error logging
mechanism
* Running multiple web sites using a single Apache server and set of
configuration files
* Manipulating URLs -- controlling the files to which they refer, changing
them from one thing to another, and making them point to other web sites
* Securing Apache against penetration and exposure 
* Making Apache handle secure transactions with SSL-capable browsers -- a
must for handling sensitive data such as money transfers or medical
records
* Enhancing Apache with runtime scripts and making them operate as a
particular user
* Customizing Apache's error messages to give your site its own unique
flavor
* Configuring Apache to act as a proxy between users and web pages
* Addressing performance bottlenecks and improving Apache's overall
function 

Ken Coar is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, the body that
oversees Apache development. He is the author of "Apache Server for
Dummies" (January 1998) and co-author of "Apache Server Unleashed" (March
2000). Ken has been responsible for fielding email sent to the Apache
project, and his experience with that mailing list provided a foundation
for this book.

Rich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, working
primarily on the documentation for the Apache Web Server. He lives in
Lexington, Kentucky, where he spends his free time GeoCaching. He also
enjoys flying kites and reading stuff by Charles Dickens and his
contemporaries. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Administrators Handbook and
Apache Cookbook. Rich, or DrBacchus--his handle on IRC--also spends
entirely too much time on #apache. You can find him on the web at
http://www.drbacchus.com/journal/.

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Apache Cookbook, Second Edition
Ken Coar and Rich Bowen
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