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- Apache
- Version 1.0 (and up)
-
- What is it?
- -----------
-
- 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.
-
- Documentation
- -------------
-
- All the documentation is on-line on the WWW, via <URL:http://www.apache.org/>.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- 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.
-
- For instructions on compilation, see the file 'INSTALL' in the src/ directory.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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/>.
-
- Finally, make a call to httpd, with a -f to the full path to the
- httpd.conf file. I.e., the common case:
-
- /usr/local/etc/apache/src/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf
-
- And voila! The server should be running.
-
- 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.
-
- The Latest Version
- ------------------
-
- 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.
-
- Licencing
- ---------
-
- Please see the file called LICENSE.
-
-