Web-server

Last update on November 13 2023 10:30:10 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Web-server

Here is a list of popular open source web servers.

Apache
LightTPD (YouTube, Meebo, Wikipedia)
Nginx
Roxen

Apache

Apache's initial release came in the year 1995. It is the most widely used web server around since then.

powers 100 million websites (early 2009), over 46% of total
Most popular web server since 1996
Lineage going back to NCSA HTTPd
A comprehensive set of features - you want it, it has it.

Installing Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

Apache is installed in /etc/apache2.

File/Directory	Description
apache2.conf	The main Apache2 configuration file. Contains settings that are global to Apache2.
conf.d	Contains configuration files which apply globally to Apache. Other packages that use Apache2 to serve content may add files, or symlinks, to this directory.
envars	File where Apache2 environment variables are set.
httpd.conf	Historically the main Apache2 configuration file, named after the httpd daemon. The file can be used for user-specific configuration options that globally effect Apache2.
mods-available	This directory contains configuration files to both load modules and configures them.
mods-enabled	Holds symlinks to the files in /etc/apache2/mods-available.
ports.conf	Houses the directives that determine which TCP ports Apache2 is listening on.
sites-available	This directory has configuration files for Apache Virtual Hosts.Virtual Hosts allow Apache2 to be configured for multiple sites that have separate configurations.
sites-enabled	Like mods-enabled, sites-enabled contains symlinks to the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. Similarly when a configuration file in sites-available is symlinked it will be active once Apache is restarted.

Works immediately

screen shot

/etc/apache2/sitesavailable/ site_name

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Port number of site  --><VirtualHost *:80>
Email of webmaster  -->ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
Root directory of site files  --></Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Static files block  -->
Static files block  -->
Error log file  -->
Access log file  -->

Multiple sites

Apache supports multiple sites on the same machine. Assign sites by port number, sub-domain, directory name, or any combination of the above.

After any configuration changes, restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Modules

There are many modules that provide additional functionality.

These modules can be installed and loaded dynamically.

Installs the MySQL authentication module

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-authmysql

after press enter key get these result

Enables the new module and restarts apache

sudo a2enmode auth_mysql
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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