This section helps you create useful symbolic links. This part of the installation is purely optional. However, I like to create certain symbolic links that make it easier to work with Apache. Creating a symbolic link for the contents of /usr/local/apache/bin directory to /usr/local/bin does wonders. The /usr/local/apache/bin directory contains certain commands. You can use [...]

After introducing HTC Magic and HTC Hero in quick succession, Touch2 is launched in India. The new HTC Touch2 doesn’t look like an update of Touch model but surely looks like an older brother of Touch 3G. What HTC boasts about is that the Touch2 phone comes with Windows Mobile 6.5 pre-loaded on it. At [...]

Twitter, a micro-blogging service, has rolled out a new Lists feature that was announced last month. Selected groups of people are getting Lists feature that allows custom Twitter users list that other users can follow with single click. List feature is basically a group of Twitter friends that another user can follow with a single [...]

Installation is not complete until you test it. You can test your Apache installation in a variety of ways. I test the installation in two ways. First, I check the installation by using the lynx text browser. Second, I test the installation by connecting from a remote client computer. Connecting Using lynx To test the [...]

The apachectl command is an important command that you can use to administer the Apache Web server. However, to use this command, you may want to create the symbolic link that I created in the previous section. To view the options that can be used with this command, type the following command at the console: [...]

This section helps you create useful symbolic links. This part of the installation is purely optional. However, I like to create certain symbolic links that make it easier to work with Apache. Creating a symbolic link for the contents of /usr/local/apache/bin directory to /usr/local/bin does wonders. The /usr/local/apache/bin directory contains certain commands. You can use [...]

After you use the configure script, Apache is ready to be compiled. A set of files assists Apache during the compilation process. One such file is the config.status file. This file is created automatically when you run the configure script. However, if this file exists, it is overwritten when you specify the ./configure command. The [...]

By now you must be familiar with a lot of configure options. However, each Web server administrator operates under different circumstances and is influenced by different perceptions. To me, the following command has proven to be the most helpful: #./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache \ >–server-uid=www \ >–server-gid=www \ >–htdocsdir=/opt/web/html \ >–cgidir=/opt/web/cgi-bin \ >–enable-module=most \ >–enable-shared=max Now, review [...]

There are so many configure options that it is practically impossible to remember all of them by heart. The best practice is to always view the help file for the configure script. This helps you choose your favorite options while compiling. After you extract the necessary files, you can move to the /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.24/ directory and [...]

You use this argument to specify that Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) are to be used while compiling the modules. All modules except the http_core module and the mod_so module are compiled using DSO. These modules should be statically linked to Apache, exclusively. This is important because the function of the http_core module is to provide [...]

This argument specifies that all modules included in the standard distribution of Apache and supported by all platforms should be enabled. However, using this argument omits certain modules that are not supported by all platforms. It is advisable to use the –enable-module=most argument and exclusively specify the additional modules that you want to install. Tip [...]