1995-11-05 06:23:10 +00:00
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There are two sets of options that the Apache HTTP Server needs.
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1995-11-05 02:22:53 +00:00
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The first set covers how it operates. These are as follows:
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The "HostName" field is the name of this host, as it is
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reported to each client connection. Normally, the fully
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qualified domain name of the host running the server is
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returned. If you want this set to something else, however,
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(usually "www.my.domain") then this can be entered here.
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Additionally, the server needs to know how many connections
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are allowed at one time - this is the "Max Connections"
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field. If more than this number of clients attempt to connect
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at once, the additional connections will be refused. This is
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used to limit how much system load will be imposed by the HTTP
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server.
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The "Email Address" field is the address of the person (or
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system alias) who is the administrator for this web site. In
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addition to being used by the Apache Server itself, it is also
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put at the bottom of the sample web page that is created.
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Finally, the "Default User" and "Default Group" fields specify
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what user id and group id should be used by the server for
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remote connections. Local connections are kept as the UID and
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GID of the local process.
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The second set of options determine what information is made available
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to each client:
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The "Document Root Path" is the top of the tree of documents
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that are made avaliable. For example, if the value is
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"/usr/web", then the URL "http://www.foo.com/doc.html" would
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translate as "/usr/web/doc.html".
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Similarly, the "User Directory" is the location in each user's
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home directory where their public web documents are
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stored. Thus if the value if this is "Public", then the URL
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"http://www.foo.com/~joe/doc" would translate to the path
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"~joe/Public/doc".
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Finally, if the URL points to a directory, there is always a
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"Default Document" that Apache will use. This field holds the
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name (not the path) of this document. By default, Apache uses
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the file "index.html". However, some sites may be more used to
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using the file "welcome.html".
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There are a number of other options that can be configured with
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Apache, such as path aliases, masquerading as multiple hosts, server
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child process parameters, and so forth. For more information on these,
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consult the Apache man pages at http://www.apache.org.
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