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-<UL>
- <LI><STRONG>A. Background</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#what">What is Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#why">Why was Apache created?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#relate">How does The Apache Group's work relate to
- other servers?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#name">Why the name "Apache"?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#compare">OK, so how does Apache compare to other servers?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#tested">How thoroughly tested is Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#future">What are the future plans for Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#support">Whom do I contact for support?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#more">Is there any more information on Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#where">Where can I get Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>B. General Technical Questions</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#what2do">"Why can't I ...? Why won't ...
- work?" What to do in case of problems</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#compatible">How compatible is Apache with my existing
- NCSA 1.3 setup?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#year2000">Is Apache Year 2000 compliant?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#submit_patch">How do I submit a patch to the Apache Group?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#domination">Why has Apache stolen my favourite site's
- Internet address?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#apspam">Why am I getting spam mail from the Apache site?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#redist">May I include the Apache software on a CD or other
- package I'm distributing?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#zoom">What's the best hardware/operating system/... How do
- I get the most out of my Apache Web server?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#regex">What are "regular expressions"?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>C. Building Apache</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#bind8.1">Why do I get an error about an undefined
- reference to "<SAMP>__inet_ntoa</SAMP>" or other
- <SAMP>__inet_*</SAMP> symbols?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#cantbuild">Why won't Apache compile with my
- system's <SAMP>cc</SAMP>?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#linuxiovec">Why do I get complaints about redefinition
- of "<CODE>struct iovec</CODE>" when compiling under Linux?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#broken-gcc">I'm using gcc and I get some compilation errors,
- what is wrong?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#glibc-crypt">I'm using RedHat Linux 5.0, or some other
- <SAMP>glibc</SAMP>-based Linux system, and I get errors with the
- <CODE>crypt</CODE> function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><STRONG>D. Error Log Messages and Problems Starting Apache</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#setgid">Why do I get "<SAMP>setgid: Invalid
- argument</SAMP>" at startup?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#nodelay">Why am I getting "<SAMP>httpd: could not
- set socket option TCP_NODELAY</SAMP>" in my error log?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#peerreset">Why am I getting "<SAMP>connection
- reset by peer</SAMP>" in my error log?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#wheres-the-dump">The errorlog says Apache dumped core,
- but where's the dump file?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#linux-shmget">When I run it under Linux I get "shmget:
- function not found", what should I do?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#nfslocking">Server hangs, or fails to start, and/or error log
- fills with "<SAMP>fcntl: F_SETLKW: No record locks
- available</SAMP>" or similar messages</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#aixccbug">Why am I getting "<SAMP>Expected </Directory>
- but saw </Directory></SAMP>" when I try to start Apache?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#redhat">I'm using RedHat Linux and I have problems with httpd
- dying randomly or not restarting properly</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#stopping">I upgraded from an Apache version earlier
- than 1.2.0 and suddenly I have problems with Apache dying randomly
- or not restarting properly</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><STRONG>E. Configuration Questions</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#fdlim">Why can't I run more than <<EM>n</EM>>
- virtual hosts?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#freebsd-setsize">Can I increase <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>
- on FreeBSD?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#errordoc401">Why doesn't my <CODE>ErrorDocument
- 401</CODE> work?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#cookies1">Why does Apache send a cookie on every response?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#cookies2">Why don't my cookies work, I even compiled in
- <SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#jdk1-and-http1.1">Why do my Java app[let]s give me plain text
- when I request an URL from an Apache server?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#midi">How do I get Apache to send a MIDI file so the
- browser can play it?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#addlog">How do I add browsers and referrers to my logs?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#set-servername">Why does accessing directories only work
- when I include the trailing "/"
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user/</SAMP>) but
- not when I omit it
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user</SAMP>)?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#no-info-directives">Why doesn't mod_info list any
- directives?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#namevhost">I upgraded to Apache 1.3 and now my
- virtual hosts don't work!</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#redhat-htm">I'm using RedHat Linux and my .htm files are
- showing up as HTML source rather than being formatted!</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#htaccess-work">My <CODE>.htaccess</CODE> files are being
- ignored.</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><STRONG>F. Dynamic Content (CGI and SSI)</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#CGIoutsideScriptAlias">How do I enable CGI execution
- in directories other than the ScriptAlias?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#premature-script-headers">What does it mean when my
- CGIs fail with "<SAMP>Premature end of script
- headers</SAMP>"?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#POSTnotallowed">Why do I keep getting "Method Not
- Allowed" for form POST requests?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#nph-scripts">How can I get my script's output without
- Apache buffering it? Why doesn't my server push work?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#cgi-spec">Where can I find the "CGI
- specification"?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#fastcgi">Why isn't FastCGI included with Apache any
- more?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-i">How do I enable SSI (parsed HTML)?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-ii">Why don't my parsed files get cached?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-iii">How can I have my script output parsed?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-iv">SSIs don't work for VirtualHosts and/or
- user home directories</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#errordocssi">How can I use <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>
- and SSI to simplify customized error messages?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#remote-user-var">Why is the environment variable
- <SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> not set?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>G. Authentication and Access Restrictions</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#dnsauth">Why isn't restricting access by host or domain name
- working correctly?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#user-authentication">How do I set up Apache to require
- a username and password to access certain documents?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#remote-auth-only">How do I set up Apache to allow access
- to certain documents only if a site is either a local site
- <EM>or</EM> the user supplies a password and username?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#authauthoritative">Why does my authentication give
- me a server error?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#auth-on-same-machine">Do I have to keep the (mSQL)
- authentication information on the same machine?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#msql-slow">Why is my mSQL authentication terribly slow?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#passwdauth">Can I use my <SAMP>/etc/passwd</SAMP> file
- for Web page authentication?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>H. URL Rewriting</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-more-config">Where can I find mod_rewrite rulesets
- which already solve particular URL-related problems?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-article">Where can I find any published information
- about URL-manipulations and mod_rewrite?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-complexity">Why is mod_rewrite so difficult to learn
- and seems so complicated?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-dontwork">What can I do if my RewriteRules don't work
- as expected?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-prefixdocroot">Why don't some of my URLs get
- prefixed with DocumentRoot when using mod_rewrite?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-nocase">How can I make all my URLs case-insensitive
- with mod_rewrite?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-virthost">Why are RewriteRules in my VirtualHost
- parts ignored?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#rewrite-envwhitespace">How can I use strings with whitespaces
- in RewriteRule's ENV flag?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>I. Features</STRONG>
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#proxy">Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#multiviews">What are "multiviews"?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#putsupport">Why can't I publish to my Apache server
- using PUT on Netscape Gold and other programs?</A>
- </LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#SSL-i">Why doesn't Apache include SSL?</A>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- </LI>
-</UL>
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<H2>The Answers</H2>
- <H3>A. Background</H3>
-<OL>
- <LI><A NAME="what">
- <STRONG>What is Apache?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache was originally based on code and ideas found in the most
- popular HTTP server of the time.. NCSA httpd 1.3 (early 1995). It has
- since evolved into a far superior system which can rival (and probably
- surpass) almost any other UNIX based HTTP server in terms of functionality,
- efficiency and speed.
- </P>
- <P>
- Since it began, it has been completely rewritten, and includes many new
- features. Apache is, as of January 1997, the most popular WWW server on
- the Internet, according to the
- <A HREF="http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/">Netcraft Survey</A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="why">
- <STRONG>Why was Apache created?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- To address the concerns of a group of WWW providers and part-time httpd
- programmers that httpd didn't behave as they wanted it to behave.
- Apache is an entirely volunteer effort, completely funded by its
- members, not by commercial sales.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="relate">
- <STRONG>How does The Apache Group's work relate to other
- server efforts, such as NCSA's?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- We, of course, owe a great debt to NCSA and their programmers for
- making the server Apache was based on. We now, however, have our own
- server, and our project is mostly our own. The Apache Project is an
- entirely independent venture.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="name">
- <STRONG>Why the name "Apache"?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- A cute name which stuck. Apache is "<STRONG>A
- PA</STRONG>t<STRONG>CH</STRONG>y server". It was
- based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="compare">
- <STRONG>OK, so how does Apache compare to other servers?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- For an independent assessment, see
- <A HREF="http://webcompare.internet.com/chart.html">Web Compare</A>'s
- comparison chart.
- </P>
- <P>
- Apache has been shown to be substantially faster than many other
- free servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to
- surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these
- "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any
- rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server
- than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache
- is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have
- experienced no performance difficulties.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="tested">
- <STRONG>How thoroughly tested is Apache?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache is run on over 1.2 million Internet servers (as of July 1998). It has
- been tested thoroughly by both developers and users. The Apache Group
- maintains rigorous standards before releasing new versions of their
- server, and our server runs without a hitch on over one half of all
- WWW servers available on the Internet. When bugs do show up, we
- release patches and new versions as soon as they are available.
- </P>
- <P>
- The Apache project's web site includes a page with a partial list of
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/apache_users.html">sites running
- Apache</A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="future">
- <STRONG>What are the future plans for Apache?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI>to continue to be an "open source" no-charge-for-use HTTP server,
- </LI>
- <LI>to keep up with advances in HTTP protocol and web developments in
- general,
- </LI>
- <LI>to collect suggestions for fixes/improvements from its users,
- </LI>
- <LI>to respond to needs of large volume providers as well as
- occasional users.
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P></P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="support">
- <STRONG>Whom do I contact for support?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- There is no official support for Apache. None of the developers want to
- be swamped by a flood of trivial questions that can be resolved elsewhere.
- Bug reports and suggestions should be sent <EM>via</EM>
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">the bug report page</A>.
- Other questions should be directed to the
- <A HREF="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix"
- >comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</A> or <A HREF=
- "news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows"
- >comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows</A>
- newsgroup (as appropriate for the platform you use), where some of the
- Apache team lurk, in the company of many other httpd gurus who
- should be able to help.
- </P>
- <P>
- Commercial support for Apache is, however, available from a number
- of third parties.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="more">
- <STRONG>Is there any more information available on
- Apache?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Indeed there is. See the main
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/">Apache web site</A>.
- There is also a regular electronic publication called
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/" REL="Help"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>
- available. Links to relevant <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> articles are
- included below where appropriate. There are also some
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/apache_books.html"
- >Apache-specific books</A> available.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="where">
- <STRONG>Where can I get Apache?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- You can find out how to download the source for Apache at the
- project's
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/">main web page</A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-</OL>
-
- <H3>B. General Technical Questions</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="what2do">
- <STRONG>"Why can't I ...? Why won't ... work?" What to
- do in case of problems</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- If you are having trouble with your Apache server software, you should
- take the following steps:
- </P>
- <OL>
- <LI><STRONG>Check the errorlog!</STRONG>
- <P>
- Apache tries to be helpful when it encounters a problem. In many
- cases, it will provide some details by writing one or messages to
- the server error log. Sometimes this is enough for you to diagnose
- & fix the problem yourself (such as file permissions or the like).
- The default location of the error log is
- <SAMP>/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log</SAMP>, but see the
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#errorlog"><SAMP>ErrorLog</SAMP></A>
- directive in your config files for the location on your server.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Check the
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html">FAQ</A>!</STRONG>
- <P>
- The latest version of the Apache Frequently-Asked Questions list can
- always be found at the main Apache web site.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Check the Apache bug database</STRONG>
- <P>
- Most problems that get reported to The Apache Group are recorded in
- the
- <A HREF="http://bugs.apache.org/">bug database</A>.
- <EM><STRONG>Please</STRONG> check the existing reports, open
- <STRONG>and</STRONG> closed, before adding one.</EM> If you find
- that your issue has already been reported, please <EM>don't</EM> add
- a "me, too" report. If the original report isn't closed
- yet, we suggest that you check it periodically. You might also
- consider contacting the original submitter, because there may be an
- email exchange going on about the issue that isn't getting recorded
- in the database.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Ask in the <SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</SAMP>
- or <SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows</SAMP> USENET
- newsgroup (as appropriate for the platform you use).</STRONG>
- <P>
- A lot of common problems never make it to the bug database because
- there's already high Q&A traffic about them in the
- <A HREF="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix"
- ><SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</SAMP></A>
- newsgroup. Many Apache users, and some of the developers, can be
- found roaming its virtual halls, so it is suggested that you seek
- wisdom there. The chances are good that you'll get a faster answer
- there than from the bug database, even if you <EM>don't</EM> see
- your question already posted.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>If all else fails, report the problem in the bug
- database</STRONG>
- <P>
- If you've gone through those steps above that are appropriate and
- have obtained no relief, then please <EM>do</EM> let The Apache
- Group know about the problem by
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">logging a bug report</A>.
- </P>
- <P>
- If your problem involves the server crashing and generating a core
- dump, please include a backtrace (if possible). As an example,
- </P>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE># cd <EM>ServerRoot</EM><BR>
- # dbx httpd core<BR>
- (dbx) where</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- (Substitute the appropriate locations for your
- <SAMP>ServerRoot</SAMP> and your <SAMP>httpd</SAMP> and
- <SAMP>core</SAMP> files. You may have to use <CODE>gdb</CODE>
- instead of <CODE>dbx</CODE>.)
- </P>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="compatible">
- <STRONG>How compatible is Apache with my existing NCSA 1.3
- setup?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache attempts to offer all the features and configuration options
- of NCSA httpd 1.3, as well as many of the additional features found in
- NCSA httpd 1.4 and NCSA httpd 1.5.
- </P>
- <P>
- NCSA httpd appears to be moving toward adding experimental features
- which are not generally required at the moment. Some of the experiments
- will succeed while others will inevitably be dropped. The Apache
- philosophy is to add what's needed as and when it is needed.
- </P>
- <P>
- Friendly interaction between Apache and NCSA developers should ensure
- that fundamental feature enhancements stay consistent between the two
- servers for the foreseeable future.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="year2000">
- <STRONG>Is Apache Year 2000 compliant?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Yes, Apache is Year 2000 compliant.
- </P>
- <P>
- Apache internally never stores years as two digits.
- On the HTTP protocol level RFC1123-style addresses are generated
- which is the only format a HTTP/1.1-compliant server should
- generate. To be compatible with older applications Apache
- recognizes ANSI C's <CODE>asctime()</CODE> and
- RFC850-/RFC1036-style date formats, too.
- The <CODE>asctime()</CODE> format uses four-digit years,
- but the RFC850 and RFC1036 date formats only define a two-digit year.
- If Apache sees such a date with a value less than 70 it assumes that
- the century is <SAMP>20</SAMP> rather than <SAMP>19</SAMP>.
- </P>
- <P>
- Although Apache is Year 2000 compliant, you may still get problems
- if the underlying OS has problems with dates past year 2000
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, OS calls which accept or return year numbers).
- Most (UNIX) systems store dates internally as signed 32-bit integers
- which contain the number of seconds since 1<SUP>st</SUP> January 1970, so
- the magic boundary to worry about is the year 2038 and not 2000.
- But modern operating systems shouldn't cause any trouble
- at all.
- </P>
- <P>
- Users of Apache 1.2.x should upgrade to a current version of Apache 1.3
- (see <A HREF="../new_features_1_3.html#misc">year-2000 improvements in
- Apache 1.3</A> for details).
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="submit_patch">
- <STRONG>How do I submit a patch to the Apache Group?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- The Apache Group encourages patches from outside developers. There
- are 2 main "types" of patches: small bugfixes and general
- improvements. Bugfixes should be submitting using the Apache <A
- HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">bug report page</A>.
- Improvements, modifications, and additions should follow the
- instructions below.
- </P>
- <P>
- In general, the first course of action is to be a member of the
- <SAMP>new-httpd@apache.org</SAMP> mailing list. This indicates to
- the Group that you are closely following the latest Apache
- developments. Your patch file should be generated using either
- '<CODE>diff -c</CODE>' or '<CODE>diff -u</CODE>' against
- the latest CVS tree. To submit your patch, send email to
- <SAMP>new-httpd@apache.org</SAMP> with a <SAMP>Subject:</SAMP> line
- that starts with <SAMP>[PATCH]</SAMP> and includes a general
- description of the patch. In the body of the message, the patch
- should be clearly described and then included at the end of the
- message. If the patch-file is long, you can note a URL to the file
- instead of the file itself. Use of MIME enclosures/attachments
- should be avoided.
- </P>
- <P>
- Be prepared to respond to any questions about your patches and
- possibly defend your code. If your patch results in a lot of
- discussion, you may be asked to submit an updated patch that
- incorporate all changes and suggestions.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="domination"><STRONG>Why has Apache stolen my favourite site's
- Internet address?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- The simple answer is: "It hasn't." This misconception is usually
- caused by the site in question having migrated to the Apache Web
- server software, but not having migrated the site's content yet. When
- Apache is installed, the default page that gets installed tells the
- Webmaster the installation was successful. The expectation is that
- this default page will be replaced with the site's real content.
- If it doesn't, complain to the Webmaster, not to the Apache project --
- we just make the software and aren't responsible for what people
- do (or don't do) with it.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="apspam"><STRONG>Why am I getting spam mail from the
- Apache site?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- The short answer is: "You aren't." Usually when someone thinks the
- Apache site is originating spam, it's because they've traced the
- spam to a Web site, and the Web site says it's using Apache. See the
- <A HREF="#domination">previous FAQ entry</A> for more details on this
- phenomenon.
- </P>
- <P>
- No marketing spam originates from the Apache site. The only mail
- that comes from the site goes only to addresses that have been
- <EM>requested</EM> to receive the mail.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="redist"><STRONG>May I include the Apache software on a
- CD or other package I'm distributing?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- The detailed answer to this question can be found in the
- Apache license, which is included in the Apache distribution in
- the file <CODE>LICENSE</CODE>. You can also find it on the Web at
- <SAMP><<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt"
- >http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt</A>></SAMP>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="zoom">
- <STRONG>What's the best hardware/operating system/... How do
- I get the most out of my Apache Web server?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Check out Dean Gaudet's
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html"
- >performance tuning page</A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="regex">
- <STRONG>What are "regular expressions"?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- Regular expressions are a way of describing a pattern - for example, "all
- the words that begin with the letter A" or "every 10-digit phone number"
- or even "Every sentence with two commas in it, and no capital letter Q".
- Regular expressions (aka "regexp"s) are useful in Apache because they
- let you apply certain attributes against collections of files or resources
- in very flexible ways - for example, all .gif and .jpg files under
- any "images" directory could be written as /.*\/images\/.*[jpg|gif]/.
- </P>
- <P>
- The best overview around is probably the one which comes with Perl.
- We implement a simple subset of Perl's regexp support, but it's
- still a good way to learn what they mean. You can start by going
- to the <A
- HREF="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html#Version_8_Regular_Expresions"
- >CPAN page on regular expressions</A>, and branching out from
- there.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-</OL>
-
- <H3>C. Building Apache</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="bind8.1">
- <STRONG>Why do I get an error about an undefined reference to
- "<SAMP>__inet_ntoa</SAMP>" or other
- <SAMP>__inet_*</SAMP> symbols?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- If you have installed <A HREF="http://www.isc.org/bind.html">BIND-8</A>
- then this is normally due to a conflict between your include files
- and your libraries. BIND-8 installs its include files and libraries
- <CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/local/lib/</CODE>, while
- the resolver that comes with your system is probably installed in
- <CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/lib/</CODE>. If
- your system uses the header files in <CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE>
- before those in <CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> but you do not use the new
- resolver library, then the two versions will conflict.
- </P>
- <P>
- To resolve this, you can either make sure you use the include files
- and libraries that came with your system or make sure to use the
- new include files and libraries. Adding <CODE>-lbind</CODE> to the
- <CODE>EXTRA_LDFLAGS</CODE> line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP>
- file, then re-running <SAMP>Configure</SAMP>, should resolve the
- problem. (Apache versions 1.2.* and earlier use
- <CODE>EXTRA_LFLAGS</CODE> instead.)
- </P>
- <P>
- <STRONG>Note:</STRONG>As of BIND 8.1.1, the bind libraries and files are
- installed under <SAMP>/usr/local/bind</SAMP> by default, so you
- should not run into this problem. Should you want to use the bind
- resolvers you'll have to add the following to the respective lines:
- </P>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/bind/include
- <BR>
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/bind/lib
- <BR>
- EXTRA_LIBS=-lbind</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="cantbuild">
- <STRONG>Why won't Apache compile with my system's
- <SAMP>cc</SAMP>?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- If the server won't compile on your system, it is probably due to one
- of the following causes:
- </P>
- <UL>
- <LI><STRONG>The <SAMP>Configure</SAMP> script doesn't recognize your system
- environment.</STRONG>
- <BR>
- This might be either because it's completely unknown or because
- the specific environment (include files, OS version, <EM>et
- cetera</EM>) isn't explicitly handled. If this happens, you may
- need to port the server to your OS yourself.
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Your system's C compiler is garbage.</STRONG>
- <BR>
- Some operating systems include a default C compiler that is either
- not ANSI C-compliant or suffers from other deficiencies. The usual
- recommendation in cases like this is to acquire, install, and use
- <SAMP>gcc</SAMP>.
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Your <SAMP>include</SAMP> files may be confused.</STRONG>
- <BR>
- In some cases, we have found that a compiler installation or system
- upgrade has left the C header files in an inconsistent state. Make
- sure that your include directory tree is in sync with the compiler and
- the operating system.
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Your operating system or compiler may be out of
- revision.</STRONG>
- <BR>
- Software vendors (including those that develop operating systems)
- issue new releases for a reason; sometimes to add functionality, but
- more often to fix bugs that have been discovered. Try upgrading
- your compiler and/or your operating system.
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P>
- The Apache Group tests the ability to build the server on many
- different platforms. Unfortunately, we can't test all of the OS
- platforms there are. If you have verified that none of the above
- issues is the cause of your problem, and it hasn't been reported
- before, please submit a
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">problem report</A>.
- Be sure to include <EM>complete</EM> details, such as the compiler
- & OS versions and exact error messages.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="linuxiovec">
- <STRONG>Why do I get complaints about redefinition
- of "<CODE>struct iovec</CODE>" when
- compiling under Linux?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This is a conflict between your C library includes and your kernel
- includes. You need to make sure that the versions of both are matched
- properly. There are two workarounds, either one will solve the problem:
- </P>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI>Remove the definition of <CODE>struct iovec</CODE> from your C
- library includes. It is located in <CODE>/usr/include/sys/uio.h</CODE>.
- <STRONG>Or,</STRONG>
- </LI>
- <LI>Add <CODE>-DNO_WRITEV</CODE> to the <CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS</CODE>
- line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> and reconfigure/rebuild.
- This hurts performance and should only be used as a last resort.
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P></P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="broken-gcc"><STRONG>I'm using gcc and I get some
- compilation errors, what is wrong?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- GCC parses your system header files and produces a modified subset which
- it uses for compiling. This behaviour ties GCC tightly to the version
- of your operating system. So, for example, if you were running IRIX 5.3
- when you built GCC and then upgrade to IRIX 6.2 later, you will have to
- rebuild GCC. Similarly for Solaris 2.4, 2.5, or 2.5.1 when you upgrade
- to 2.6. Sometimes you can type "gcc -v" and it will tell you the version
- of the operating system it was built against.
- </P>
- <P>
- If you fail to do this, then it is very likely that Apache will fail
- to build. One of the most common errors is with <CODE>readv</CODE>,
- <CODE>writev</CODE>, or <CODE>uio.h</CODE>. This is <STRONG>not</STRONG> a
- bug with Apache. You will need to re-install GCC.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="glibc-crypt">
- <STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux 5.0, or some other
- <SAMP>glibc</SAMP>-based Linux system, and I get errors with the
- <CODE>crypt</CODE> function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.</STRONG>
- </A>
-
- <P>
- <SAMP>glibc</SAMP> puts the <CODE>crypt</CODE> function into a separate
- library. Edit your <CODE>src/Configuration</CODE> file and set this:
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>EXTRA_LIBS=-lcrypt</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- Then re-run <SAMP>src/Configure</SAMP> and re-execute the make.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
-</OL>
-
-
- <H3>D. Error Log Messages and Problems Starting Apache</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="setgid">
- <STRONG>Why do I get "<SAMP>setgid: Invalid
- argument</SAMP>" at startup?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Your
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#group"><SAMP>Group</SAMP></A>
- directive (probably in <SAMP>conf/httpd.conf</SAMP>) needs to name a
- group that actually exists in the <SAMP>/etc/group</SAMP> file (or
- your system's equivalent). This problem is also frequently seen when
- a negative number is used in the <CODE>Group</CODE> directive
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, "<CODE>Group #-1</CODE>"). Using a group name
- -- not group number -- found in your system's group database should
- solve this problem in all cases.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="nodelay">
- <STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>httpd: could not set socket
- option TCP_NODELAY</SAMP>" in my error log?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This message almost always indicates that the client disconnected
- before Apache reached the point of calling <CODE>setsockopt()</CODE>
- for the connection. It shouldn't occur for more than about 1% of the
- requests your server handles, and it's advisory only in any case.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="peerreset">
- <STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>connection reset by
- peer</SAMP>" in my error log?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This is a normal message and nothing about which to be alarmed. It simply
- means that the client canceled the connection before it had been
- completely set up - such as by the end-user pressing the "Stop"
- button. People's patience being what it is, sites with response-time
- problems or slow network links may experiences this more than
- high-capacity ones or those with large pipes to the network.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="wheres-the-dump">
- <STRONG>The errorlog says Apache dumped core, but where's the dump
- file?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- In Apache version 1.2, the error log message
- about dumped core includes the directory where the dump file should be
- located. However, many Unixes do not allow a process that has
- called <CODE>setuid()</CODE> to dump core for security reasons;
- the typical Apache setup has the server started as root to bind to
- port 80, after which it changes UIDs to a non-privileged user to
- serve requests.
- </P>
- <P>
- Dealing with this is extremely operating system-specific, and may
- require rebuilding your system kernel. Consult your operating system
- documentation or vendor for more information about whether your system
- does this and how to bypass it. If there <EM>is</EM> a documented way
- of bypassing it, it is recommended that you bypass it only for the
- <SAMP>httpd</SAMP> server process if possible.
- </P>
- <P>
- The canonical location for Apache's core-dump files is the
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#serverroot">ServerRoot</A>
- directory. As of Apache version 1.3, the location can be set <EM>via</EM>
- the
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#coredumpdirectory"
- ><SAMP>CoreDumpDirectory</SAMP></A>
- directive to a different directory. Make sure that this directory is
- writable by the user the server runs as (as opposed to the user the server
- is <EM>started</EM> as).
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="linux-shmget">
- <STRONG>When I run it under Linux I get "shmget:
- function not found", what should I do?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Your kernel has been built without SysV IPC support. You will have
- to rebuild the kernel with that support enabled (it's under the
- "General Setup" submenu). Documentation for kernel
- building is beyond the scope of this FAQ; you should consult the <A
- HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html" >Kernel
- HOWTO</A>, or the documentation provided with your distribution, or
- a <A HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/META-FAQ.html" >Linux
- newsgroup/mailing list</A>. As a last-resort workaround, you can
- comment out the <CODE>#define USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD</CODE>
- definition in the <SAMP>LINUX</SAMP> section of
- <SAMP>src/conf.h</SAMP> and rebuild the server (prior to 1.3b4,
- simply removing <CODE>#define HAVE_SHMGET</CODE> would have
- sufficed). This will produce a server which is slower and less
- reliable.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="nfslocking">
- <STRONG>Server hangs, or fails to start, and/or error log
- fills with "<SAMP>fcntl: F_SETLKW: No record locks
- available</SAMP>" or similar messages</STRONG>
- </A>
-
- <P>
- These are symptoms of a fine locking problem, which usually means that
- the server is trying to use a synchronization file on an NFS filesystem.
- </P>
- <P>
- Because of its parallel-operation model, the Apache Web server needs to
- provide some form of synchronization when accessing certain resources.
- One of these synchronization methods involves taking out locks on a file,
- which means that the filesystem whereon the lockfile resides must support
- locking. In many cases this means it <EM>can't</EM> be kept on an
- NFS-mounted filesystem.
- </P>
- <P>
- To cause the Web server to work around the NFS locking limitations, include
- a line such as the following in your server configuration files:
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>LockFile /var/run/apache-lock</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- The directory should not be generally writable (<EM>e.g.</EM>, don't use
- <SAMP>/var/tmp</SAMP>).
- See the <A HREF="../mod/core.html#lockfile"><SAMP>LockFile</SAMP></A>
- documentation for more information.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="aixccbug"><STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>Expected
- </Directory> but saw </Directory></SAMP>" when
- I try to start Apache?</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- This is a known problem with certain versions of the AIX C compiler.
- IBM are working on a solution, and the issue is being tracked by
- <A HREF="http://bugs.apache.org/index/full/2312">problem report #2312</A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="redhat">
- <STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux and I have problems with httpd
- dying randomly or not restarting properly</STRONG>
- </A>
-
- <P>
- RedHat Linux versions 4.x (and possibly earlier) RPMs contain
- various nasty scripts which do not stop or restart Apache properly.
- These can affect you even if you're not running the RedHat supplied
- RPMs.
- </P>
- <P>
- If you're using the default install then you're probably running
- Apache 1.1.3, which is outdated. From RedHat's ftp site you can
- pick up a more recent RPM for Apache 1.2.x. This will solve one of
- the problems.
- </P>
- <P>
- If you're using a custom built Apache rather than the RedHat RPMs
- then you should <CODE>rpm -e apache</CODE>. In particular you want
- the mildly broken <CODE>/etc/logrotate.d/apache</CODE> script to be
- removed, and you want the broken <CODE>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd</CODE>
- (or <CODE>httpd.init</CODE>) script to be removed. The latter is
- actually fixed by the apache-1.2.5 RPMs but if you're building your
- own Apache then you probably don't want the RedHat files.
- </P>
- <P>
- We can't stress enough how important it is for folks, <EM>especially
- vendors</EM> to follow the <A HREF="../stopping.html">stopping Apache
- directions</A> given in our documentation. In RedHat's defense,
- the broken scripts were necessary with Apache 1.1.x because the
- Linux support in 1.1.x was very poor, and there were various race
- conditions on all platforms. None of this should be necessary with
- Apache 1.2 and later.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="stopping">
- <STRONG>I upgraded from an Apache version earlier
- than 1.2.0 and suddenly I have problems with Apache dying randomly
- or not restarting properly</STRONG>
- </A>
-
- <P>
- You should read <A HREF="#redhat">the previous note</A> about
- problems with RedHat installations. It is entirely likely that your
- installation has start/stop/restart scripts which were built for
- an earlier version of Apache. Versions earlier than 1.2.0 had
- various race conditions that made it necessary to use
- <CODE>kill -9</CODE> at times to take out all the httpd servers.
- But that should not be necessary any longer. You should follow
- the <A HREF="../stopping.html">directions on how to stop
- and restart Apache</A>.
- </P>
- <P>As of Apache 1.3 there is a script
- <CODE>src/support/apachectl</CODE> which, after a bit of
- customization, is suitable for starting, stopping, and restarting
- your server.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
-</OL>
-
- <H3>E. Configuration Questions</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="fdlim">
- <STRONG>Why can't I run more than <<EM>n</EM>>
- virtual hosts?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- You are probably running into resource limitations in your
- operating system. The most common limitation is the
- <EM>per</EM>-process limit on <STRONG>file descriptors</STRONG>,
- which is almost always the cause of problems seen when adding
- virtual hosts. Apache often does not give an intuitive error
- message because it is normally some library routine (such as
- <CODE>gethostbyname()</CODE>) which needs file descriptors and
- doesn't complain intelligibly when it can't get them.
- </P>
- <P>
- Each log file requires a file descriptor, which means that if you are
- using separate access and error logs for each virtual host, each
- virtual host needs two file descriptors. Each
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
- directive also needs a file descriptor.
- </P>
- <P>
- Typical values for <<EM>n</EM>> that we've seen are in
- the neighborhood of 128 or 250. When the server bumps into the file
- descriptor limit, it may dump core with a SIGSEGV, it might just
- hang, or it may limp along and you'll see (possibly meaningful) errors
- in the error log. One common problem that occurs when you run into
- a file descriptor limit is that CGI scripts stop being executed
- properly.
- </P>
- <P>
- As to what you can do about this:
- </P>
- <OL>
- <LI>Reduce the number of
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
- directives. If there are no other servers running on the machine
- on the same port then you normally don't
- need any Listen directives at all. By default Apache listens to
- all addresses on port 80.
- </LI>
- <LI>Reduce the number of log files. You can use
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html"><SAMP>mod_log_config</SAMP></A>
- to log all requests to a single log file while including the name
- of the virtual host in the log file. You can then write a
- script to split the logfile into separate files later if
- necessary. Such a script is provided with the Apache 1.3 distribution
- in the <SAMP>src/support/split-logfile</SAMP> file.
- </LI>
- <LI>Increase the number of file descriptors available to the server
- (see your system's documentation on the <CODE>limit</CODE> or
- <CODE>ulimit</CODE> commands). For some systems, information on
- how to do this is available in the
- <A HREF="perf.html">performance hints</A> page. There is a specific
- note for <A HREF="#freebsd-setsize">FreeBSD</A> below.
- <P>
- For Windows 95, try modifying your <SAMP>C:\CONFIG.SYS</SAMP> file to
- include a line like
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>FILES=300</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- Remember that you'll need to reboot your Windows 95 system in order
- for the new value to take effect.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI>"Don't do that" - try to run with fewer virtual hosts
- </LI>
- <LI>Spread your operation across multiple server processes (using
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
- for example, but see the first point) and/or ports.
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <P>
- Since this is an operating-system limitation, there's not much else
- available in the way of solutions.
- </P>
- <P>
- As of 1.2.1 we have made attempts to work around various limitations
- involving running with many descriptors.
- <A HREF="descriptors.html">More information is available.</A>
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="freebsd-setsize">
- <STRONG>Can I increase <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> on FreeBSD?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- On versions of FreeBSD before 3.0, the <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> define
- defaults to 256. This means that you will have trouble usefully using
- more than 256 file descriptors in Apache. This can be increased, but
- doing so can be tricky.
- </P>
- <P>
- If you are using a version prior to 2.2, you need to recompile your
- kernel with a larger <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>. This can be done by adding a
- line such as:
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>options FD_SETSIZE <EM>nnn</EM></CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- to your kernel config file. Starting at version 2.2, this is no
- longer necessary.
- </P>
- <P>
- If you are using a version of 2.1-stable from after 1997/03/10 or
- 2.2 or 3.0-current from before 1997/06/28, there is a limit in
- the resolver library that prevents it from using more file descriptors
- than what <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> is set to when libc is compiled. To
- increase this, you have to recompile libc with a higher
- <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>.
- </P>
- <P>
- In FreeBSD 3.0, the default <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> has been increased to
- 1024 and the above limitation in the resolver library
- has been removed.
- </P>
- <P>
- After you deal with the appropriate changes above, you can increase
- the setting of <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> at Apache compilation time
- by adding "<SAMP>-DFD_SETSIZE=<EM>nnn</EM></SAMP>" to the
- <SAMP>EXTRA_CFLAGS</SAMP> line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP>
- file.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="errordoc401">
- <STRONG>Why doesn't my <CODE>ErrorDocument 401</CODE> work?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- You need to use it with a URL in the form
- "<SAMP>/foo/bar</SAMP>" and not one with a method and
- hostname such as "<SAMP>http://host/foo/bar</SAMP>". See the
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#errordocument"><SAMP>ErrorDocument</SAMP></A>
- documentation for details. This was incorrectly documented in the past.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="cookies1">
- <STRONG>Why does Apache send a cookie on every response?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache does <EM>not</EM> automatically send a cookie on every
- response, unless you have re-compiled it with the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_usertrack.html"><SAMP>mod_usertrack</SAMP></A>
- module, and specifically enabled it with the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookietracking"
- ><SAMP>CookieTracking</SAMP></A>
- directive.
- This module has been in Apache since version 1.2.
- This module may help track users, and uses cookies to do this. If
- you are not using the data generated by <SAMP>mod_usertrack</SAMP>, do
- not compile it into Apache.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="cookies2">
- <STRONG>Why don't my cookies work, I even compiled in
- <SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>?
- </STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Firstly, you do <EM>not</EM> need to compile in
- <SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP> in order for your scripts to work (see the
- <A HREF="#cookies1">previous question</A>
- for more about <SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>). Apache passes on your
- <SAMP>Set-Cookie</SAMP> header fine, with or without this module. If
- cookies do not work it will be because your script does not work
- properly or your browser does not use cookies or is not set-up to
- accept them.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="jdk1-and-http1.1">
- <STRONG>Why do my Java app[let]s give me plain text when I request
- an URL from an Apache server?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- As of version 1.2, Apache is an HTTP/1.1 (HyperText Transfer Protocol
- version 1.1) server. This fact is reflected in the protocol version
- that's included in the response headers sent to a client when
- processing a request. Unfortunately, low-level Web access classes
- included in the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.0.2 expect to see
- the version string "HTTP/1.0" and do not correctly interpret
- the "HTTP/1.1" value Apache is sending (this part of the
- response is a declaration of what the server can do rather than a
- declaration of the dialect of the response). The result
- is that the JDK methods do not correctly parse the headers, and
- include them with the document content by mistake.
- </P>
- <P>
- This is definitely a bug in the JDK 1.0.2 foundation classes from Sun,
- and it has been fixed in version 1.1. However, the classes in
- question are part of the virtual machine environment, which means
- they're part of the Web browser (if Java-enabled) or the Java
- environment on the client system - so even if you develop
- <EM>your</EM> classes with a recent JDK, the eventual users might
- encounter the problem.
- The classes involved are replaceable by vendors implementing the
- Java virtual machine environment, and so even those that are based
- upon the 1.0.2 version may not have this problem.
- </P>
- <P>
- In the meantime, a workaround is to tell
- Apache to "fake" an HTTP/1.0 response to requests that come
- from the JDK methods; this can be done by including a line such as the
- following in your server configuration files:
- </P>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>BrowserMatch Java1.0 force-response-1.0
- <BR>
- BrowserMatch JDK/1.0 force-response-1.0</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- More information about this issue can be found in the
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102.html"
- ><CITE>Java and HTTP/1.1</CITE></A>
- page at the Apache web site.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="midi">
- <STRONG>How do I get Apache to send a MIDI file so the browser can
- play it?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Even though the registered MIME type for MIDI files is
- <SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP>, some browsers are not set up to recognize it
- as such; instead, they look for <SAMP>audio/x-midi</SAMP>. There are
- two things you can do to address this:
- </P>
- <OL>
- <LI>Configure your browser to treat documents of type
- <SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP> correctly. This is the type that Apache
- sends by default. This may not be workable, however, if you have
- many client installations to change, or if some or many of the
- clients are not under your control.
- </LI>
- <LI>Instruct Apache to send a different <SAMP>Content-type</SAMP>
- header for these files by adding the following line to your server's
- configuration files:
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>AddType audio/x-midi .mid .midi .kar</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- Note that this may break browsers that <EM>do</EM> recognize the
- <SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP> MIME type unless they're prepared to also
- handle <SAMP>audio/x-midi</SAMP> the same way.
- </P>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="addlog">
- <STRONG>How do I add browsers and referrers to my logs?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache provides a couple of different ways of doing this. The
- recommended method is to compile the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html"><SAMP>mod_log_config</SAMP></A>
- module into your configuration and use the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog"><SAMP>CustomLog</SAMP></A>
- directive.
- </P>
- <P>
- You can either log the additional information in files other than your
- normal transfer log, or you can add them to the records already being
- written. For example:
- </P>
- <P>
- <CODE>
- CustomLog logs/access_log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
- </CODE>
- </P>
- <P>
- This will add the values of the <SAMP>User-agent:</SAMP> and
- <SAMP>Referer:</SAMP> headers, which indicate the client and the
- referring page, respectively, to the end of each line in the access
- log.
- </P>
- <P>
- You may want to check out the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article
- entitled:
- "<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/logfiles" REL="Help"
- ><CITE>Gathering Visitor Information: Customizing Your
- Logfiles</CITE></A>".
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="set-servername">
- <STRONG>Why does accessing directories only work when I include
- the trailing "/"
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user/</SAMP>)
- but not when I omit it
- (<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user</SAMP>)?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- When you access a directory without a trailing "/", Apache needs
- to send what is called a redirect to the client to tell it to
- add the trailing slash. If it did not do so, relative URLs would
- not work properly. When it sends the redirect, it needs to know
- the name of the server so that it can include it in the redirect.
- There are two ways for Apache to find this out; either it can guess,
- or you can tell it. If your DNS is configured correctly, it can
- normally guess without any problems. If it is not, however, then
- you need to tell it.
- </P>
- <P>
- Add a <A HREF="../mod/core.html#servername">ServerName</A> directive
- to the config file to tell it what the domain name of the server is.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="no-info-directives">
- <STRONG>Why doesn't mod_info list any directives?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- The <A HREF="../mod/mod_info.html"><SAMP>mod_info</SAMP></A>
- module allows you to use a Web browser to see how your server is
- configured. Among the information it displays is the list modules and
- their configuration directives. The "current" values for
- the directives are not necessarily those of the running server; they
- are extracted from the configuration files themselves at the time of
- the request. If the files have been changed since the server was last
- reloaded, the display will will not match the values actively in use.
- If the files and the path to the files are not readable by the user as
- which the server is running (see the
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#user"><SAMP>User</SAMP></A>
- directive), then <SAMP>mod_info</SAMP> cannot read them in order to
- list their values. An entry <EM>will</EM> be made in the error log in
- this event, however.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="namevhost">
- <STRONG>I upgraded to Apache 1.3 and now my virtual hosts don't
- work!</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- In versions of Apache prior to 1.3b2, there was a lot of confusion
- regarding address-based virtual hosts and (HTTP/1.1) name-based
- virtual hosts, and the rules concerning how the server processed
- <SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> definitions were very complex and not
- well documented.
- </P>
- <P>
- Apache 1.3b2 introduced a new directive,
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost"
- ><SAMP>NameVirtualHost</SAMP></A>,
- which simplifies the rules quite a bit. However, changing the rules
- like this means that your existing name-based
- <SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> containers probably won't work
- correctly immediately following the upgrade.
- </P>
- <P>
- To correct this problem, add the following line to the beginning of
- your server configuration file, before defining any virtual hosts:
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>NameVirtualHost <EM>n.n.n.n</EM></CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- Replace the "<SAMP>n.n.n.n</SAMP>" with the IP address to
- which the name-based virtual host names resolve; if you have multiple
- name-based hosts on multiple addresses, repeat the directive for each
- address.
- </P>
- <P>
- Make sure that your name-based <SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> blocks
- contain <SAMP>ServerName</SAMP> and possibly <SAMP>ServerAlias</SAMP>
- directives so Apache can be sure to tell them apart correctly.
- </P>
- <P>
- Please see the
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/">Apache
- Virtual Host documentation</A> for further details about configuration.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="redhat-htm">
- <STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux and my .htm files are showing
- up as HTML source rather than being formatted!</STRONG>
- </A>
-
- <P>
- RedHat messed up and forgot to put a content type for <CODE>.htm</CODE>
- files into <CODE>/etc/mime.types</CODE>. Edit <CODE>/etc/mime.types</CODE>,
- find the line containing <CODE>html</CODE> and add <CODE>htm</CODE> to it.
- Then restart your httpd server:
- </P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P>
- Then <STRONG>clear your browsers' caches</STRONG>. (Many browsers won't
- re-examine the content type after they've reloaded a page.)
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="htaccess-work">
- <STRONG>My <CODE>.htaccess</CODE> files are being ignored.</STRONG></A>
- <P>
- This is almost always due to your <A HREF="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">
- AllowOverride</A> directive being set incorrectly for the directory in
- question. If it is set to <CODE>None</CODE> then .htaccess files will
- not even be looked for. If you do have one that is set, then be certain
- it covers the directory you are trying to use the .htaccess file in.
- This is normally accomplished by ensuring it is inside the proper
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#directory">Directory</A> container.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-</OL>
-
- <H3>F. Dynamic Content (CGI and SSI)</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="CGIoutsideScriptAlias">
- <STRONG>How do I enable CGI execution in directories other than
- the ScriptAlias?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache recognizes all files in a directory named as a
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias"><SAMP>ScriptAlias</SAMP></A>
- as being eligible for execution rather than processing as normal
- documents. This applies regardless of the file name, so scripts in a
- ScriptAlias directory don't need to be named
- "<SAMP>*.cgi</SAMP>" or "<SAMP>*.pl</SAMP>" or
- whatever. In other words, <EM>all</EM> files in a ScriptAlias
- directory are scripts, as far as Apache is concerned.
- </P>
- <P>
- To persuade Apache to execute scripts in other locations, such as in
- directories where normal documents may also live, you must tell it how
- to recognize them - and also that it's okay to execute them. For
- this, you need to use something like the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler"><SAMP>AddHandler</SAMP></A>
- directive.
- </P>
- <P>
- <OL>
- <LI>In an appropriate section of your server configuration files, add
- a line such as
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>AddHandler cgi-script .cgi</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- The server will then recognize that all files in that location (and
- its logical descendants) that end in "<SAMP>.cgi</SAMP>"
- are script files, not documents.
- </P>
- </LI>
- <LI>Make sure that the directory location is covered by an
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
- declaration that includes the <SAMP>ExecCGI</SAMP> option.
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- In some situations, you might not want to actually
- allow all files named "<SAMP>*.cgi</SAMP>" to be executable.
- Perhaps all you want is to enable a particular file in a normal directory to
- be executable. This can be alternatively accomplished
- <EM>via</EM> <A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
- and the following steps:
- </P>
- <P>
- <OL>
- <LI>Locally add to the corresponding <SAMP>.htaccess</SAMP> file a ruleset
- similar to this one:
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>RewriteEngine on
- <BR>
- RewriteBase /~foo/bar/
- <BR>
- RewriteRule ^quux\.cgi$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- </LI>
- <LI>Make sure that the directory location is covered by an
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
- declaration that includes the <SAMP>ExecCGI</SAMP> and
- <SAMP>FollowSymLinks</SAMP> option.
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <P></P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="premature-script-headers">
- <STRONG>What does it mean when my CGIs fail with
- "<SAMP>Premature end of script headers</SAMP>"?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- It means just what it says: the server was expecting a complete set of
- HTTP headers (one or more followed by a blank line), and didn't get
- them.
- </P>
- <P>
- The most common cause of this problem is the script dying before
- sending the complete set of headers, or possibly any at all, to the
- server. To see if this is the case, try running the script standalone
- from an interactive session, rather than as a script under the server.
- If you get error messages, this is almost certainly the cause of the
- "premature end of script headers" message.
- </P>
- <P>
- The second most common cause of this (aside from people not
- outputting the required headers at all) is a result of an interaction
- with Perl's output buffering. To make Perl flush its buffers
- after each output statement, insert the following statements around
- the <CODE>print</CODE> or <CODE>write</CODE> statements that send your
- HTTP headers:
- </P>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>{<BR>
- local ($oldbar) = $|;<BR>
- $cfh = select (STDOUT);<BR>
- $| = 1;<BR>
- #<BR>
- # print your HTTP headers here<BR>
- #<BR>
- $| = $oldbar;<BR>
- select ($cfh);<BR>
- }</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- This is generally only necessary when you are calling external
- programs from your script that send output to stdout, or if there will
- be a long delay between the time the headers are sent and the actual
- content starts being emitted. To maximize performance, you should
- turn buffer-flushing back <EM>off</EM> (with <CODE>$| = 0</CODE> or the
- equivalent) after the statements that send the headers, as displayed
- above.
- </P>
- <P>
- If your script isn't written in Perl, do the equivalent thing for
- whatever language you <EM>are</EM> using (<EM>e.g.</EM>, for C, call
- <CODE>fflush()</CODE> after writing the headers).
- </P>
- <P>
- Another cause for the "premature end of script headers"
- message are the RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM directives. You may
- get the message if the CGI script was killed due to a
- resource limit.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="POSTnotallowed">
- <STRONG>Why do I keep getting "Method Not Allowed" for
- form POST requests?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This is almost always due to Apache not being configured to treat the
- file you are trying to POST to as a CGI script. You can not POST
- to a normal HTML file; the operation has no meaning. See the FAQ
- entry on <A HREF="#CGIoutsideScriptAlias">CGIs outside ScriptAliased
- directories</A> for details on how to configure Apache to treat the
- file in question as a CGI.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="nph-scripts">
- <STRONG>How can I get my script's output without Apache buffering
- it? Why doesn't my server push work?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- As of Apache 1.3, CGI scripts are essentially not buffered. Every time
- your script does a "flush" to output data, that data gets relayed on to
- the client. Some scripting languages, for example Perl, have their own
- buffering for output - this can be disabled by setting the <CODE>$|</CODE>
- special variable to 1. Of course this does increase the overall number
- of packets being transmitted, which can result in a sense of slowness for
- the end user.
- </P>
- <P>Prior to 1.3, you needed to use "nph-" scripts to accomplish
- non-buffering. Today, the only difference between nph scripts and
- normal scripts is that nph scripts require the full HTTP headers to
- be sent.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="cgi-spec">
- <STRONG>Where can I find the "CGI specification"?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) specification can be found at
- the original NCSA site
- <<A HREF="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html">
- <SAMP>http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html</SAMP></A>>.
- This version hasn't been updated since 1995, and there have been
- some efforts to update it.
- </P>
- <P>
- A new draft is being worked on with the intent of making it an informational
- RFC; you can find out more about this project at
- <<A HREF="http://web.golux.com/coar/cgi/"
- ><SAMP>http://web.golux.com/coar/cgi/</SAMP></A>>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="fastcgi">
- <STRONG>Why isn't FastCGI included with Apache any more?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- The simple answer is that it was becoming too difficult to keep the
- version being included with Apache synchronized with the master copy
- at the
- <A HREF="http://www.fastcgi.com/"
- >FastCGI web site</A>. When a new version of Apache was released, the
- version of the FastCGI module included with it would soon be out of date.
- </P>
- <P>
- You can still obtain the FastCGI module for Apache from the master
- FastCGI web site.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="ssi-part-i">
- <STRONG>How do I enable SSI (parsed HTML)?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- SSI (an acronym for Server-Side Include) directives allow static HTML
- documents to be enhanced at run-time (<EM>e.g.</EM>, when delivered to
- a client by Apache). The format of SSI directives is covered
- in the <A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include manual</A>;
- suffice it to say that Apache supports not only SSI but
- xSSI (eXtended SSI) directives.
- </P>
- <P>
- Processing a document at run-time is called <EM>parsing</EM> it; hence
- the term "parsed HTML" sometimes used for documents that
- contain SSI instructions. Parsing tends to be <EM>extremely</EM>
- resource-consumptive, and is not enabled by default. It can also
- interfere with the cachability of your documents, which can put a
- further load on your server. (see the
- <A HREF="#ssi-part-ii">next question</A> for more information about this.)
- </P>
- <P>
- To enable SSI processing, you need to
- </P>
- <UL>
- <LI>Build your server with the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html"><SAMP>mod_include</SAMP></A>
- module. This is normally compiled in by default.
- </LI>
- <LI>Make sure your server configuration files have an
- <A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
- directive which permits <SAMP>Includes</SAMP>.
- </LI>
- <LI>Make sure that the directory where you want the SSI documents to
- live is covered by the "server-parsed" content handler,
- either explicitly or in some ancestral location. That can be done
- with the following
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler"><SAMP>AddHandler</SAMP></A>
- directive:
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>AddHandler server-parsed .shtml</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- This indicates that all files ending in ".shtml" in that
- location (or its descendants) should be parsed. Note that using
- ".html" will cause all normal HTML files to be parsed,
- which may put an inordinate load on your server.
- </P>
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P>
- For additional information, see the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article on
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssi" REL="Help"
- ><CITE>Using Server Side Includes</CITE></A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="ssi-part-ii">
- <STRONG>Why don't my parsed files get cached?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Since the server is performing run-time processing of your SSI
- directives, which may change the content shipped to the client, it
- can't know at the time it starts parsing what the final size of the
- result will be, or whether the parsed result will always be the same.
- This means that it can't generate <SAMP>Content-Length</SAMP> or
- <SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> headers. Caches commonly work by comparing
- the <SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> of what's in the cache with that being
- delivered by the server. Since the server isn't sending that header
- for a parsed document, whatever's doing the caching can't tell whether
- the document has changed or not - and so fetches it again to be on the
- safe side.
- </P>
- <P>
- You can work around this in some cases by causing an
- <SAMP>Expires</SAMP> header to be generated. (See the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_expires.html" REL="Help"><SAMP>mod_expires</SAMP></A>
- documentation for more details.) Another possibility is to use the
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html#xbithack" REL="Help"
- ><SAMP>XBitHack Full</SAMP></A>
- mechanism, which tells Apache to send (under certain circumstances
- detailed in the XBitHack directive description) a
- <SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> header based upon the last modification
- time of the file being parsed. Note that this may actually be lying
- to the client if the parsed file doesn't change but the SSI-inserted
- content does; if the included content changes often, this can result
- in stale copies being cached.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="ssi-part-iii">
- <STRONG>How can I have my script output parsed?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- So you want to include SSI directives in the output from your CGI
- script, but can't figure out how to do it?
- The short answer is "you can't." This is potentially
- a security liability and, more importantly, it can not be cleanly
- implemented under the current server API. The best workaround
- is for your script itself to do what the SSIs would be doing.
- After all, it's generating the rest of the content.
- </P>
- <P>
- This is a feature The Apache Group hopes to add in the next major
- release after 1.3.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="ssi-part-iv">
- <STRONG>SSIs don't work for VirtualHosts and/or
- user home directories.</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This is almost always due to having some setting in your config file that
- sets "Options Includes" or some other setting for your DocumentRoot
- but not for other directories. If you set it inside a Directory
- section, then that setting will only apply to that directory.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="errordocssi">
- <STRONG>How can I use <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>
- and SSI to simplify customized error messages?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Have a look at <A HREF="custom_errordocs.html">this document</A>.
- It shows in example form how you can a combination of XSSI and
- negotiation to tailor a set of <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>s to your
- personal taste, and returning different internationalized error
- responses based on the client's native language.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="remote-user-var">
- <STRONG>Why is the environment variable
- <SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> not set?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- This variable is set and thus available in SSI or CGI scripts <STRONG>if and
- only if</STRONG> the requested document was protected by access
- authentication. For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions,
- see
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>'s
- articles on
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth"
- ><CITE>Using User Authentication</CITE></A>
- or
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/dbmauth"
- ><CITE>DBM User Authentication</CITE></A>.
- </P>
- <P>
- Hint: When using a CGI script to receive the data of a HTML <SAMP>FORM</SAMP>
- notice that protecting the document containing the <SAMP>FORM</SAMP> is not
- sufficient to provide <SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> to the CGI script. You have
- to protect the CGI script, too. Or alternatively only the CGI script (then
- authentication happens only after filling out the form).
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
-</OL>
-
- <H3>G. Authentication and Access Restrictions</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="dnsauth">
- <STRONG>Why isn't restricting access by host or domain name
- working correctly?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Two of the most common causes of this are:
- </P>
- <OL>
- <LI><STRONG>An error, inconsistency, or unexpected mapping in the DNS
- registration</STRONG>
- <BR>
- This happens frequently: your configuration restricts access to
- <SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP>, but you can't get in from that host.
- The usual reason for this is that <SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP> is
- actually an alias for another name, and when Apache performs the
- address-to-name lookup it's getting the <EM>real</EM> name, not
- <SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP>. You can verify this by checking the
- reverse lookup yourself. The easiest way to work around it is to
- specify the correct host name in your configuration.
- </LI>
- <LI><STRONG>Inadequate checking and verification in your
- configuration of Apache</STRONG>
- <BR>
- If you intend to perform access checking and restriction based upon
- the client's host or domain name, you really need to configure
- Apache to double-check the origin information it's supplied. You do
- this by adding the <SAMP>-DMAXIMUM_DNS</SAMP> clause to the
- <SAMP>EXTRA_CFLAGS</SAMP> definition in your
- <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> file. For example:
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DMAXIMUM_DNS</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- This will cause Apache to be very paranoid about making sure a
- particular host address is <EM>really</EM> assigned to the name it
- claims to be. Note that this <EM>can</EM> incur a significant
- performance penalty, however, because of all the name resolution
- requests being sent to a nameserver.
- </P>
- </LI>
- </OL>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="user-authentication">
- <STRONG>How do I set up Apache to require a username and
- password to access certain documents?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- There are several ways to do this; some of the more popular
- ones are to use the <A HREF="../mod/mod_auth.html">mod_auth</A>,
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_auth_db.html">mod_auth_db</A>, or
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_auth_dbm.html">mod_auth_dbm</A> modules.
- </P>
- <P>
- For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions, see
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>'s
- articles on
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth"
- ><CITE>Using User Authentication</CITE></A>
- or
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/dbmauth"
- ><CITE>DBM User Authentication</CITE></A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="remote-auth-only">
- <STRONG>How do I set up Apache to allow access to certain
- documents only if a site is either a local site <EM>or</EM>
- the user supplies a password and username?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Use the <A HREF="../mod/core.html#satisfy">Satisfy</A> directive,
- in particular the <CODE>Satisfy Any</CODE> directive, to require
- that only one of the access restrictions be met. For example,
- adding the following configuration to a <SAMP>.htaccess</SAMP>
- or server configuration file would restrict access to people who
- either are accessing the site from a host under domain.com or
- who can supply a valid username and password:
- </P>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><CODE>deny from all
- <BR>
- allow from .domain.com
- <BR>
- AuthType Basic
- <BR>
- AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/htpasswd.users
- <BR>
- AuthName "special directory"
- <BR>
- require valid-user
- <BR>
- satisfy any</CODE>
- </DD>
- </DL>
- <P></P>
- <P>
- See the <A HREF="#user-authentication">user authentication</A>
- question and the <A HREF="../mod/mod_access.html">mod_access</A>
- module for details on how the above directives work.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="authauthoritative">
- <STRONG>Why does my authentication give me a server error?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Under normal circumstances, the Apache access control modules will
- pass unrecognized user IDs on to the next access control module in
- line. Only if the user ID is recognized and the password is validated
- (or not) will it give the usual success or "authentication
- failed" messages.
- </P>
- <P>
- However, if the last access module in line 'declines' the validation
- request (because it has never heard of the user ID or because it is not
- configured), the <SAMP>http_request</SAMP> handler will give one of
- the following, confusing, errors:
- </P>
- <UL>
- <LI><SAMP>check access</SAMP>
- </LI>
- <LI><SAMP>check user. No user file?</SAMP>
- </LI>
- <LI><SAMP>check access. No groups file?</SAMP>
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P>
- This does <EM>not</EM> mean that you have to add an
- '<SAMP>AuthUserFile /dev/null</SAMP>' line as some magazines suggest!
- </P>
- <P>
- The solution is to ensure that at least the last module is authoritative
- and <STRONG>CONFIGURED</STRONG>. By default, <SAMP>mod_auth</SAMP> is
- authoritative and will give an OK/Denied, but only if it is configured
- with the proper <SAMP>AuthUserFile</SAMP>. Likewise, if a valid group
- is required. (Remember that the modules are processed in the reverse
- order from that in which they appear in your compile-time
- <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> file.)
- </P>
- <P>
- A typical situation for this error is when you are using the
- <SAMP>mod_auth_dbm</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>,
- <SAMP>mod_auth_mysql</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_anon</SAMP> or
- <SAMP>mod_auth_cookie</SAMP> modules on their own. These are by
- default <STRONG>not</STRONG> authoritative, and this will pass the
- buck on to the (non-existent) next authentication module when the
- user ID is not in their respective database. Just add the appropriate
- '<SAMP><EM>XXX</EM>Authoritative yes</SAMP>' line to the configuration.
- </P>
- <P>
- In general it is a good idea (though not terribly efficient) to have the
- file-based <SAMP>mod_auth</SAMP> a module of last resort. This allows
- you to access the web server with a few special passwords even if the
- databases are down or corrupted. This does cost a
- file open/seek/close for each request in a protected area.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="auth-on-same-machine">
- <STRONG>Do I have to keep the (mSQL) authentication information
- on the same machine?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Some organizations feel very strongly about keeping the authentication
- information on a different machine than the webserver. With the
- <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_mysql</SAMP>, and other SQL
- modules connecting to (R)DBMses this is quite possible. Just configure
- an explicit host to contact.
- </P>
- <P>
- Be aware that with mSQL and Oracle, opening and closing these database
- connections is very expensive and time consuming. You might want to
- look at the code in the <SAMP>auth_*</SAMP> modules and play with the
- compile time flags to alleviate this somewhat, if your RDBMS licences
- allow for it.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="msql-slow">
- <STRONG>Why is my mSQL authentication terribly slow?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- You have probably configured the Host by specifying a FQHN,
- and thus the <SAMP>libmsql</SAMP> will use a full blown TCP/IP socket
- to talk to the database, rather than a fast internal device. The
- <SAMP>libmsql</SAMP>, the mSQL FAQ, and the <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>
- documentation warn you about this. If you have to use different
- hosts, check out the <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP> code for
- some compile time flags which might - or might not - suit you.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="passwdauth">
- <STRONG>Can I use my <SAMP>/etc/passwd</SAMP> file
- for Web page authentication?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Yes, you can - but it's a <STRONG>very bad idea</STRONG>. Here are
- some of the reasons:
- </P>
- <UL>
- <LI>The Web technology provides no governors on how often or how
- rapidly password (authentication failure) retries can be made. That
- means that someone can hammer away at your system's
- <SAMP>root</SAMP> password using the Web, using a dictionary or
- similar mass attack, just as fast as the wire and your server can
- handle the requests. Most operating systems these days include
- attack detection (such as <EM>n</EM> failed passwords for the same
- account within <EM>m</EM> seconds) and evasion (breaking the
- connection, disabling the account under attack, disabling
- <EM>all</EM> logins from that source, <EM>et cetera</EM>), but the
- Web does not.
- </LI>
- <LI>An account under attack isn't notified (unless the server is
- heavily modified); there's no "You have 19483 login
- failures" message when the legitimate owner logs in.
- </LI>
- <LI>Without an exhaustive and error-prone examination of the server
- logs, you can't tell whether an account has been compromised.
- Detecting that an attack has occurred, or is in progress, is fairly
- obvious, though - <EM>if</EM> you look at the logs.
- </LI>
- <LI>Web authentication passwords (at least for Basic authentication)
- generally fly across the wire, and through intermediate proxy
- systems, in what amounts to plain text. "O'er the net we
- go/Caching all the way;/O what fun it is to surf/Giving my password
- away!"
- </LI>
- <LI>Since HTTP is stateless, information about the authentication is
- transmitted <EM>each and every time</EM> a request is made to the
- server. Essentially, the client caches it after the first
- successful access, and transmits it without asking for all
- subsequent requests to the same server.
- </LI>
- <LI>It's relatively trivial for someone on your system to put up a
- page that will steal the cached password from a client's cache
- without them knowing. Can you say "password grabber"?
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P>
- If you still want to do this in light of the above disadvantages, the
- method is left as an exercise for the reader. It'll void your Apache
- warranty, though, and you'll lose all accumulated UNIX guru points.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-</OL>
-
- <H3>H. URL Rewriting</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-more-config">
- <STRONG>Where can I find mod_rewrite rulesets which already solve
- particular URL-related problems?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- There is a collection of
- <A HREF="http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/"
- >Practical Solutions for URL-Manipulation</A>
- where you can
- find all typical solutions the author of
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
- currently knows of. If you have more
- interesting rulesets which solve particular problems not currently covered in
- this document, send it to
- <A HREF="mailto:rse@apache.org">Ralf S. Engelschall</A>
- for inclusion. The
- other webmasters will thank you for avoiding the reinvention of the wheel.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-article">
- <STRONG>Where can I find any published information about
- URL-manipulations and mod_rewrite?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- There is an article from
- <A HREF="mailto:rse@apache.org"
- >Ralf S. Engelschall</A>
- about URL-manipulations based on
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
- in the "iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin" issue #12/96. The
- german (original) version
- can be read online at
- <<A HREF="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/9612149/"
- >http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/9612149/</A>>,
- the English (translated) version can be found at
- <<A HREF="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/9612149/"
- >http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/9612149/</A>>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-complexity">
- <STRONG>Why is mod_rewrite so difficult to learn and seems so
- complicated?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Hmmm... there are a lot of reasons. First, mod_rewrite itself is a powerful
- module which can help you in really <STRONG>all</STRONG> aspects of URL
- rewriting, so it can be no trivial module per definition. To accomplish
- its hard job it uses software leverage and makes use of a powerful regular
- expression
- library by Henry Spencer which is an integral part of Apache since its
- version 1.2. And regular expressions itself can be difficult to newbies,
- while providing the most flexible power to the advanced hacker.
- </P>
- <P>
- On the other hand mod_rewrite has to work inside the Apache API environment
- and needs to do some tricks to fit there. For instance the Apache API as of
- 1.x really was not designed for URL rewriting at the <TT>.htaccess</TT>
- level of processing. Or the problem of multiple rewrites in sequence, which
- is also not handled by the API per design. To provide this features
- mod_rewrite has to do some special (but API compliant!) handling which leads
- to difficult processing inside the Apache kernel. While the user usually
- doesn't see anything of this processing, it can be difficult to find
- problems when some of your RewriteRules seem not to work.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-dontwork">
- <STRONG>What can I do if my RewriteRules don't work as expected?
- </STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Use "<SAMP>RewriteLog somefile</SAMP>" and
- "<SAMP>RewriteLogLevel 9</SAMP>" and have a precise look at the
- steps the rewriting engine performs. This is really the only one and best
- way to debug your rewriting configuration.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-prefixdocroot"><STRONG>Why don't some of my URLs
- get prefixed with DocumentRoot when using mod_rewrite?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- If the rule starts with <SAMP>/somedir/...</SAMP> make sure that
- really no <SAMP>/somedir</SAMP> exists on the filesystem if you
- don't want to lead the URL to match this directory, <EM>i.e.</EM>,
- there must be no root directory named <SAMP>somedir</SAMP> on the
- filesystem. Because if there is such a directory, the URL will not
- get prefixed with DocumentRoot. This behaviour looks ugly, but is
- really important for some other aspects of URL rewriting.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-nocase">
- <STRONG>How can I make all my URLs case-insensitive with mod_rewrite?
- </STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- You can't! The reason is: First, case translations for arbitrary
- length URLs cannot be done <EM>via</EM> regex patterns and
- corresponding substitutions. One need a per-character pattern like
- sed/Perl <SAMP>tr|..|..|</SAMP> feature. Second, just making URLs
- always upper or lower case will not resolve the complete problem of
- case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because actually the URLs had to be rewritten
- to the correct case-variant residing on the filesystem because in
- later processing Apache needs to access the file. And Unix
- filesystem is always case-SENSITIVE.
- </P>
- <P>
- But there is a module named <CODE>mod_speling.c</CODE> (yes, it is named
- this way!) out there on the net. Try this one.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-virthost">
- <STRONG> Why are RewriteRules in my VirtualHost parts ignored?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Because you have to enable the engine for every virtual host explicitly due
- to security concerns. Just add a "RewriteEngine on" to your
- virtual host configuration parts.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="rewrite-envwhitespace">
- <STRONG> How can I use strings with whitespaces in RewriteRule's ENV
- flag?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- There is only one ugly solution: You have to surround the complete
- flag argument by quotation marks (<SAMP>"[E=...]"</SAMP>). Notice:
- The argument to quote here is not the argument to the E-flag, it is
- the argument of the Apache config file parser, <EM>i.e.</EM>, the
- third argument of the RewriteRule here. So you have to write
- <SAMP>"[E=any text with whitespaces]"</SAMP>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-</OL>
-
- <H3>I. Features</H3>
-<OL>
-
- <LI><A NAME="proxy">
- <STRONG>Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Apache version 1.1 and above comes with a
- <A HREF="../mod/mod_proxy.html">proxy module</A>.
- If compiled in, this will make Apache act as a caching-proxy server.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="multiviews">
- <STRONG>What are "multiviews"?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- "Multiviews" is the general name given to the Apache
- server's ability to provide language-specific document variants in
- response to a request. This is documented quite thoroughly in the
- <A HREF="../content-negotiation.html" REL="Help">content negotiation</A>
- description page. In addition, <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> carried an
- article on this subject entitled
- "<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/negotiation" REL="Help"
- ><CITE>Content Negotiation Explained</CITE></A>".
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="putsupport">
- <STRONG>Why can't I publish to my Apache server using PUT on
- Netscape Gold and other programs?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- Because you need to install and configure a script to handle
- the uploaded files. This script is often called a "PUT" handler.
- There are several available, but they may have security problems.
- Using FTP uploads may be easier and more secure, at least for now.
- For more information, see the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/put"
- ><CITE>Publishing Pages with PUT</CITE></A>.
- </P>
- <HR>
- </LI>
-
- <LI><A NAME="SSL-i">
- <STRONG>Why doesn't Apache include SSL?</STRONG>
- </A>
- <P>
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data transport requires encryption, and many
- governments have restrictions upon the import, export, and use of
- encryption technology. If Apache included SSL in the base package,
- its distribution would involve all sorts of legal and bureaucratic
- issues, and it would no longer be freely available. Also, some of
- the technology required to talk to current clients using SSL is
- patented by <A HREF="http://www.rsa.com/">RSA Data Security</A>,
- who restricts its use without a license.
- </P>
- <P>
- Some SSL implementations of Apache are available, however; see the
- "<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/related_projects.html"
- >related projects</A>"
- page at the main Apache web site.
- </P>
- <P>
- You can find out more about this topic in the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE>
- article about
- <A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssl" REL="Help"
- ><CITE>Apache and Secure Transactions</CITE></A>.
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<LI><A HREF="#what">What is Apache?</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#why">Why was Apache created?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#relate">How does The Apache Group's work relate to
other servers?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#name">Why the name "Apache"?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#compare">OK, so how does Apache compare to other servers?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#tested">How thoroughly tested is Apache?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#future">What are the future plans for Apache?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#support">Whom do I contact for support?</A>
</LI>
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<LI><A NAME="what">
<STRONG>What is Apache?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache was originally based on code and ideas found in the most
popular HTTP server of the time.. NCSA httpd 1.3 (early 1995). It has
since evolved into a far superior system which can rival (and probably
surpass) almost any other UNIX based HTTP server in terms of functionality,
efficiency and speed.
</P>
<P>
Since it began, it has been completely rewritten, and includes many new
features. Apache is, as of January 1997, the most popular WWW server on
the Internet, according to the
<A HREF="http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/">Netcraft Survey</A>.
</P>
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<LI><A NAME="why">
<STRONG>Why was Apache created?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
To address the concerns of a group of WWW providers and part-time httpd
programmers that httpd didn't behave as they wanted it to behave.
Apache is an entirely volunteer effort, completely funded by its
members, not by commercial sales.
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="relate">
<STRONG>How does The Apache Group's work relate to other
server efforts, such as NCSA's?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
We, of course, owe a great debt to NCSA and their programmers for
making the server Apache was based on. We now, however, have our own
server, and our project is mostly our own. The Apache Project is an
entirely independent venture.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="name">
<STRONG>Why the name "Apache"?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
A cute name which stuck. Apache is "<STRONG>A
PA</STRONG>t<STRONG>CH</STRONG>y server". It was
based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="compare">
<STRONG>OK, so how does Apache compare to other servers?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
For an independent assessment, see
<A HREF="http://webcompare.internet.com/chart.html">Web Compare</A>'s
comparison chart.
</P>
<P>
Apache has been shown to be substantially faster than many other
free servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to
surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these
"benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any
rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server
than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache
is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have
experienced no performance difficulties.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="tested">
<STRONG>How thoroughly tested is Apache?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache is run on over 1.2 million Internet servers (as of July 1998). It has
been tested thoroughly by both developers and users. The Apache Group
maintains rigorous standards before releasing new versions of their
server, and our server runs without a hitch on over one half of all
WWW servers available on the Internet. When bugs do show up, we
release patches and new versions as soon as they are available.
</P>
<P>
The Apache project's web site includes a page with a partial list of
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/apache_users.html">sites running
Apache</A>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="future">
<STRONG>What are the future plans for Apache?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
<UL>
<LI>to continue to be an "open source" no-charge-for-use HTTP server,
</LI>
<LI>to keep up with advances in HTTP protocol and web developments in
general,
</LI>
<LI>to collect suggestions for fixes/improvements from its users,
</LI>
<LI>to respond to needs of large volume providers as well as
occasional users.
</LI>
</UL>
<P></P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="support">
<STRONG>Whom do I contact for support?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
There is no official support for Apache. None of the developers want to
be swamped by a flood of trivial questions that can be resolved elsewhere.
Bug reports and suggestions should be sent <EM>via</EM>
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">the bug report page</A>.
Other questions should be directed to the
<A HREF="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix"
>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</A> or <A HREF=
"news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows"
>comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows</A>
newsgroup (as appropriate for the platform you use), where some of the
Apache team lurk, in the company of many other httpd gurus who
should be able to help.
</P>
<P>
Commercial support for Apache is, however, available from a number
of third parties.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="more">
<STRONG>Is there any more information available on
Apache?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Indeed there is. See the main
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/">Apache web site</A>.
There is also a regular electronic publication called
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/" REL="Help"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>
available. Links to relevant <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> articles are
included below where appropriate. There are also some
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/apache_books.html"
>Apache-specific books</A> available.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="where">
<STRONG>Where can I get Apache?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You can find out how to download the source for Apache at the
project's
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/">main web page</A>.
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<LI><A HREF="#what2do">"Why can't I ...? Why won't ...
work?" What to do in case of problems</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#compatible">How compatible is Apache with my existing
NCSA 1.3 setup?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#year2000">Is Apache Year 2000 compliant?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#submit_patch">How do I submit a patch to the Apache Group?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#domination">Why has Apache stolen my favourite site's
Internet address?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#apspam">Why am I getting spam mail from the Apache site?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#redist">May I include the Apache software on a CD or other
package I'm distributing?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#zoom">What's the best hardware/operating system/... How do
I get the most out of my Apache Web server?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#regex">What are "regular expressions"?</A>
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<OL>
<LI><A NAME="what2do">
<STRONG>"Why can't I ...? Why won't ... work?" What to
do in case of problems</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
If you are having trouble with your Apache server software, you should
take the following steps:
</P>
<OL>
<LI><STRONG>Check the errorlog!</STRONG>
<P>
Apache tries to be helpful when it encounters a problem. In many
cases, it will provide some details by writing one or messages to
the server error log. Sometimes this is enough for you to diagnose
& fix the problem yourself (such as file permissions or the like).
The default location of the error log is
<SAMP>/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log</SAMP>, but see the
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#errorlog"><SAMP>ErrorLog</SAMP></A>
directive in your config files for the location on your server.
</P>
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Check the
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html">FAQ</A>!</STRONG>
<P>
The latest version of the Apache Frequently-Asked Questions list can
always be found at the main Apache web site.
</P>
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Check the Apache bug database</STRONG>
<P>
Most problems that get reported to The Apache Group are recorded in
the
<A HREF="http://bugs.apache.org/">bug database</A>.
<EM><STRONG>Please</STRONG> check the existing reports, open
<STRONG>and</STRONG> closed, before adding one.</EM> If you find
that your issue has already been reported, please <EM>don't</EM> add
a "me, too" report. If the original report isn't closed
yet, we suggest that you check it periodically. You might also
consider contacting the original submitter, because there may be an
email exchange going on about the issue that isn't getting recorded
in the database.
</P>
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Ask in the <SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</SAMP>
or <SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows</SAMP> USENET
newsgroup (as appropriate for the platform you use).</STRONG>
<P>
A lot of common problems never make it to the bug database because
there's already high Q&A traffic about them in the
<A HREF="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix"
><SAMP>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</SAMP></A>
newsgroup. Many Apache users, and some of the developers, can be
found roaming its virtual halls, so it is suggested that you seek
wisdom there. The chances are good that you'll get a faster answer
there than from the bug database, even if you <EM>don't</EM> see
your question already posted.
</P>
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>If all else fails, report the problem in the bug
database</STRONG>
<P>
If you've gone through those steps above that are appropriate and
have obtained no relief, then please <EM>do</EM> let The Apache
Group know about the problem by
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">logging a bug report</A>.
</P>
<P>
If your problem involves the server crashing and generating a core
dump, please include a backtrace (if possible). As an example,
</P>
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE># cd <EM>ServerRoot</EM><BR>
# dbx httpd core<BR>
(dbx) where</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
(Substitute the appropriate locations for your
<SAMP>ServerRoot</SAMP> and your <SAMP>httpd</SAMP> and
<SAMP>core</SAMP> files. You may have to use <CODE>gdb</CODE>
instead of <CODE>dbx</CODE>.)
</P>
</LI>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="compatible">
<STRONG>How compatible is Apache with my existing NCSA 1.3
setup?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache attempts to offer all the features and configuration options
of NCSA httpd 1.3, as well as many of the additional features found in
NCSA httpd 1.4 and NCSA httpd 1.5.
</P>
<P>
NCSA httpd appears to be moving toward adding experimental features
which are not generally required at the moment. Some of the experiments
will succeed while others will inevitably be dropped. The Apache
philosophy is to add what's needed as and when it is needed.
</P>
<P>
Friendly interaction between Apache and NCSA developers should ensure
that fundamental feature enhancements stay consistent between the two
servers for the foreseeable future.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="year2000">
<STRONG>Is Apache Year 2000 compliant?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Yes, Apache is Year 2000 compliant.
</P>
<P>
Apache internally never stores years as two digits.
On the HTTP protocol level RFC1123-style addresses are generated
which is the only format a HTTP/1.1-compliant server should
generate. To be compatible with older applications Apache
recognizes ANSI C's <CODE>asctime()</CODE> and
RFC850-/RFC1036-style date formats, too.
The <CODE>asctime()</CODE> format uses four-digit years,
but the RFC850 and RFC1036 date formats only define a two-digit year.
If Apache sees such a date with a value less than 70 it assumes that
the century is <SAMP>20</SAMP> rather than <SAMP>19</SAMP>.
</P>
<P>
Although Apache is Year 2000 compliant, you may still get problems
if the underlying OS has problems with dates past year 2000
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, OS calls which accept or return year numbers).
Most (UNIX) systems store dates internally as signed 32-bit integers
which contain the number of seconds since 1<SUP>st</SUP> January 1970, so
the magic boundary to worry about is the year 2038 and not 2000.
But modern operating systems shouldn't cause any trouble
at all.
</P>
<P>
Users of Apache 1.2.x should upgrade to a current version of Apache 1.3
(see <A HREF="../new_features_1_3.html#misc">year-2000 improvements in
Apache 1.3</A> for details).
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="submit_patch">
<STRONG>How do I submit a patch to the Apache Group?</STRONG></A>
<P>
The Apache Group encourages patches from outside developers. There
are 2 main "types" of patches: small bugfixes and general
improvements. Bugfixes should be submitting using the Apache <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">bug report page</A>.
Improvements, modifications, and additions should follow the
instructions below.
</P>
<P>
In general, the first course of action is to be a member of the
<SAMP>new-httpd@apache.org</SAMP> mailing list. This indicates to
the Group that you are closely following the latest Apache
developments. Your patch file should be generated using either
'<CODE>diff -c</CODE>' or '<CODE>diff -u</CODE>' against
the latest CVS tree. To submit your patch, send email to
<SAMP>new-httpd@apache.org</SAMP> with a <SAMP>Subject:</SAMP> line
that starts with <SAMP>[PATCH]</SAMP> and includes a general
description of the patch. In the body of the message, the patch
should be clearly described and then included at the end of the
message. If the patch-file is long, you can note a URL to the file
instead of the file itself. Use of MIME enclosures/attachments
should be avoided.
</P>
<P>
Be prepared to respond to any questions about your patches and
possibly defend your code. If your patch results in a lot of
discussion, you may be asked to submit an updated patch that
incorporate all changes and suggestions.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="domination"><STRONG>Why has Apache stolen my favourite site's
Internet address?</STRONG></A>
<P>
The simple answer is: "It hasn't." This misconception is usually
caused by the site in question having migrated to the Apache Web
server software, but not having migrated the site's content yet. When
Apache is installed, the default page that gets installed tells the
Webmaster the installation was successful. The expectation is that
this default page will be replaced with the site's real content.
If it doesn't, complain to the Webmaster, not to the Apache project --
we just make the software and aren't responsible for what people
do (or don't do) with it.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="apspam"><STRONG>Why am I getting spam mail from the
Apache site?</STRONG></A>
<P>
The short answer is: "You aren't." Usually when someone thinks the
Apache site is originating spam, it's because they've traced the
spam to a Web site, and the Web site says it's using Apache. See the
<A HREF="#domination">previous FAQ entry</A> for more details on this
phenomenon.
</P>
<P>
No marketing spam originates from the Apache site. The only mail
that comes from the site goes only to addresses that have been
<EM>requested</EM> to receive the mail.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="redist"><STRONG>May I include the Apache software on a
CD or other package I'm distributing?</STRONG></A>
<P>
The detailed answer to this question can be found in the
Apache license, which is included in the Apache distribution in
the file <CODE>LICENSE</CODE>. You can also find it on the Web at
<SAMP><<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt"
>http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt</A>></SAMP>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="zoom">
<STRONG>What's the best hardware/operating system/... How do
I get the most out of my Apache Web server?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Check out Dean Gaudet's
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html"
>performance tuning page</A>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="regex">
<STRONG>What are "regular expressions"?</STRONG></A>
<P>
Regular expressions are a way of describing a pattern - for example, "all
the words that begin with the letter A" or "every 10-digit phone number"
or even "Every sentence with two commas in it, and no capital letter Q".
Regular expressions (aka "regexp"s) are useful in Apache because they
let you apply certain attributes against collections of files or resources
in very flexible ways - for example, all .gif and .jpg files under
any "images" directory could be written as /.*\/images\/.*[jpg|gif]/.
</P>
<P>
The best overview around is probably the one which comes with Perl.
We implement a simple subset of Perl's regexp support, but it's
still a good way to learn what they mean. You can start by going
to the <A
HREF="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html#Version_8_Regular_Expresions"
>CPAN page on regular expressions</A>, and branching out from
there.
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<LI><A HREF="#bind8.1">Why do I get an error about an undefined
reference to "<SAMP>__inet_ntoa</SAMP>" or other
<SAMP>__inet_*</SAMP> symbols?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#cantbuild">Why won't Apache compile with my
system's <SAMP>cc</SAMP>?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#linuxiovec">Why do I get complaints about redefinition
of "<CODE>struct iovec</CODE>" when compiling under Linux?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#broken-gcc">I'm using gcc and I get some compilation errors,
what is wrong?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#glibc-crypt">I'm using RedHat Linux 5.0, or some other
<SAMP>glibc</SAMP>-based Linux system, and I get errors with the
<CODE>crypt</CODE> function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.</A>
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<STRONG>Why do I get an error about an undefined reference to
"<SAMP>__inet_ntoa</SAMP>" or other
<SAMP>__inet_*</SAMP> symbols?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
If you have installed <A HREF="http://www.isc.org/bind.html">BIND-8</A>
then this is normally due to a conflict between your include files
and your libraries. BIND-8 installs its include files and libraries
<CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/local/lib/</CODE>, while
the resolver that comes with your system is probably installed in
<CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/lib/</CODE>. If
your system uses the header files in <CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE>
before those in <CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> but you do not use the new
resolver library, then the two versions will conflict.
</P>
<P>
To resolve this, you can either make sure you use the include files
and libraries that came with your system or make sure to use the
new include files and libraries. Adding <CODE>-lbind</CODE> to the
<CODE>EXTRA_LDFLAGS</CODE> line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP>
file, then re-running <SAMP>Configure</SAMP>, should resolve the
problem. (Apache versions 1.2.* and earlier use
<CODE>EXTRA_LFLAGS</CODE> instead.)
</P>
<P>
<STRONG>Note:</STRONG>As of BIND 8.1.1, the bind libraries and files are
installed under <SAMP>/usr/local/bind</SAMP> by default, so you
should not run into this problem. Should you want to use the bind
resolvers you'll have to add the following to the respective lines:
</P>
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/bind/include
<BR>
EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/bind/lib
<BR>
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</DD>
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<P></P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="cantbuild">
<STRONG>Why won't Apache compile with my system's
<SAMP>cc</SAMP>?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
If the server won't compile on your system, it is probably due to one
of the following causes:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><STRONG>The <SAMP>Configure</SAMP> script doesn't recognize your system
environment.</STRONG>
<BR>
This might be either because it's completely unknown or because
the specific environment (include files, OS version, <EM>et
cetera</EM>) isn't explicitly handled. If this happens, you may
need to port the server to your OS yourself.
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Your system's C compiler is garbage.</STRONG>
<BR>
Some operating systems include a default C compiler that is either
not ANSI C-compliant or suffers from other deficiencies. The usual
recommendation in cases like this is to acquire, install, and use
<SAMP>gcc</SAMP>.
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Your <SAMP>include</SAMP> files may be confused.</STRONG>
<BR>
In some cases, we have found that a compiler installation or system
upgrade has left the C header files in an inconsistent state. Make
sure that your include directory tree is in sync with the compiler and
the operating system.
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Your operating system or compiler may be out of
revision.</STRONG>
<BR>
Software vendors (including those that develop operating systems)
issue new releases for a reason; sometimes to add functionality, but
more often to fix bugs that have been discovered. Try upgrading
your compiler and/or your operating system.
</LI>
</UL>
<P>
The Apache Group tests the ability to build the server on many
different platforms. Unfortunately, we can't test all of the OS
platforms there are. If you have verified that none of the above
issues is the cause of your problem, and it hasn't been reported
before, please submit a
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html">problem report</A>.
Be sure to include <EM>complete</EM> details, such as the compiler
& OS versions and exact error messages.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="linuxiovec">
<STRONG>Why do I get complaints about redefinition
of "<CODE>struct iovec</CODE>" when
compiling under Linux?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This is a conflict between your C library includes and your kernel
includes. You need to make sure that the versions of both are matched
properly. There are two workarounds, either one will solve the problem:
</P>
<P>
<UL>
<LI>Remove the definition of <CODE>struct iovec</CODE> from your C
library includes. It is located in <CODE>/usr/include/sys/uio.h</CODE>.
<STRONG>Or,</STRONG>
</LI>
<LI>Add <CODE>-DNO_WRITEV</CODE> to the <CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS</CODE>
line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> and reconfigure/rebuild.
This hurts performance and should only be used as a last resort.
</LI>
</UL>
<P></P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="broken-gcc"><STRONG>I'm using gcc and I get some
compilation errors, what is wrong?</STRONG></A>
<P>
GCC parses your system header files and produces a modified subset which
it uses for compiling. This behaviour ties GCC tightly to the version
of your operating system. So, for example, if you were running IRIX 5.3
when you built GCC and then upgrade to IRIX 6.2 later, you will have to
rebuild GCC. Similarly for Solaris 2.4, 2.5, or 2.5.1 when you upgrade
to 2.6. Sometimes you can type "gcc -v" and it will tell you the version
of the operating system it was built against.
</P>
<P>
If you fail to do this, then it is very likely that Apache will fail
to build. One of the most common errors is with <CODE>readv</CODE>,
<CODE>writev</CODE>, or <CODE>uio.h</CODE>. This is <STRONG>not</STRONG> a
bug with Apache. You will need to re-install GCC.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="glibc-crypt">
<STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux 5.0, or some other
<SAMP>glibc</SAMP>-based Linux system, and I get errors with the
<CODE>crypt</CODE> function when I attempt to build Apache 1.2.</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
<SAMP>glibc</SAMP> puts the <CODE>crypt</CODE> function into a separate
library. Edit your <CODE>src/Configuration</CODE> file and set this:
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>EXTRA_LIBS=-lcrypt</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
Then re-run <SAMP>src/Configure</SAMP> and re-execute the make.
</P>
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<LI><A HREF="#setgid">Why do I get "<SAMP>setgid: Invalid
argument</SAMP>" at startup?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#nodelay">Why am I getting "<SAMP>httpd: could not
set socket option TCP_NODELAY</SAMP>" in my error log?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#peerreset">Why am I getting "<SAMP>connection
reset by peer</SAMP>" in my error log?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#wheres-the-dump">The errorlog says Apache dumped core,
but where's the dump file?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#linux-shmget">When I run it under Linux I get "shmget:
function not found", what should I do?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#nfslocking">Server hangs, or fails to start, and/or error log
fills with "<SAMP>fcntl: F_SETLKW: No record locks
available</SAMP>" or similar messages</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#aixccbug">Why am I getting "<SAMP>Expected </Directory>
but saw </Directory></SAMP>" when I try to start Apache?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#redhat">I'm using RedHat Linux and I have problems with httpd
dying randomly or not restarting properly</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#stopping">I upgraded from an Apache version earlier
than 1.2.0 and suddenly I have problems with Apache dying randomly
or not restarting properly</A>
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<OL>
<LI><A NAME="setgid">
<STRONG>Why do I get "<SAMP>setgid: Invalid
argument</SAMP>" at startup?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Your
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#group"><SAMP>Group</SAMP></A>
directive (probably in <SAMP>conf/httpd.conf</SAMP>) needs to name a
group that actually exists in the <SAMP>/etc/group</SAMP> file (or
your system's equivalent). This problem is also frequently seen when
a negative number is used in the <CODE>Group</CODE> directive
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, "<CODE>Group #-1</CODE>"). Using a group name
-- not group number -- found in your system's group database should
solve this problem in all cases.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="nodelay">
<STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>httpd: could not set socket
option TCP_NODELAY</SAMP>" in my error log?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This message almost always indicates that the client disconnected
before Apache reached the point of calling <CODE>setsockopt()</CODE>
for the connection. It shouldn't occur for more than about 1% of the
requests your server handles, and it's advisory only in any case.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="peerreset">
<STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>connection reset by
peer</SAMP>" in my error log?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This is a normal message and nothing about which to be alarmed. It simply
means that the client canceled the connection before it had been
completely set up - such as by the end-user pressing the "Stop"
button. People's patience being what it is, sites with response-time
problems or slow network links may experiences this more than
high-capacity ones or those with large pipes to the network.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="wheres-the-dump">
<STRONG>The errorlog says Apache dumped core, but where's the dump
file?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
In Apache version 1.2, the error log message
about dumped core includes the directory where the dump file should be
located. However, many Unixes do not allow a process that has
called <CODE>setuid()</CODE> to dump core for security reasons;
the typical Apache setup has the server started as root to bind to
port 80, after which it changes UIDs to a non-privileged user to
serve requests.
</P>
<P>
Dealing with this is extremely operating system-specific, and may
require rebuilding your system kernel. Consult your operating system
documentation or vendor for more information about whether your system
does this and how to bypass it. If there <EM>is</EM> a documented way
of bypassing it, it is recommended that you bypass it only for the
<SAMP>httpd</SAMP> server process if possible.
</P>
<P>
The canonical location for Apache's core-dump files is the
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#serverroot">ServerRoot</A>
directory. As of Apache version 1.3, the location can be set <EM>via</EM>
the
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#coredumpdirectory"
><SAMP>CoreDumpDirectory</SAMP></A>
directive to a different directory. Make sure that this directory is
writable by the user the server runs as (as opposed to the user the server
is <EM>started</EM> as).
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="linux-shmget">
<STRONG>When I run it under Linux I get "shmget:
function not found", what should I do?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Your kernel has been built without SysV IPC support. You will have
to rebuild the kernel with that support enabled (it's under the
"General Setup" submenu). Documentation for kernel
building is beyond the scope of this FAQ; you should consult the <A
HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html" >Kernel
HOWTO</A>, or the documentation provided with your distribution, or
a <A HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/META-FAQ.html" >Linux
newsgroup/mailing list</A>. As a last-resort workaround, you can
comment out the <CODE>#define USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD</CODE>
definition in the <SAMP>LINUX</SAMP> section of
<SAMP>src/conf.h</SAMP> and rebuild the server (prior to 1.3b4,
simply removing <CODE>#define HAVE_SHMGET</CODE> would have
sufficed). This will produce a server which is slower and less
reliable.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="nfslocking">
<STRONG>Server hangs, or fails to start, and/or error log
fills with "<SAMP>fcntl: F_SETLKW: No record locks
available</SAMP>" or similar messages</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
These are symptoms of a fine locking problem, which usually means that
the server is trying to use a synchronization file on an NFS filesystem.
</P>
<P>
Because of its parallel-operation model, the Apache Web server needs to
provide some form of synchronization when accessing certain resources.
One of these synchronization methods involves taking out locks on a file,
which means that the filesystem whereon the lockfile resides must support
locking. In many cases this means it <EM>can't</EM> be kept on an
NFS-mounted filesystem.
</P>
<P>
To cause the Web server to work around the NFS locking limitations, include
a line such as the following in your server configuration files:
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>LockFile /var/run/apache-lock</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
The directory should not be generally writable (<EM>e.g.</EM>, don't use
<SAMP>/var/tmp</SAMP>).
See the <A HREF="../mod/core.html#lockfile"><SAMP>LockFile</SAMP></A>
documentation for more information.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="aixccbug"><STRONG>Why am I getting "<SAMP>Expected
</Directory> but saw </Directory></SAMP>" when
I try to start Apache?</STRONG></A>
<P>
This is a known problem with certain versions of the AIX C compiler.
IBM are working on a solution, and the issue is being tracked by
<A HREF="http://bugs.apache.org/index/full/2312">problem report #2312</A>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="redhat">
<STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux and I have problems with httpd
dying randomly or not restarting properly</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
RedHat Linux versions 4.x (and possibly earlier) RPMs contain
various nasty scripts which do not stop or restart Apache properly.
These can affect you even if you're not running the RedHat supplied
RPMs.
</P>
<P>
If you're using the default install then you're probably running
Apache 1.1.3, which is outdated. From RedHat's ftp site you can
pick up a more recent RPM for Apache 1.2.x. This will solve one of
the problems.
</P>
<P>
If you're using a custom built Apache rather than the RedHat RPMs
then you should <CODE>rpm -e apache</CODE>. In particular you want
the mildly broken <CODE>/etc/logrotate.d/apache</CODE> script to be
removed, and you want the broken <CODE>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd</CODE>
(or <CODE>httpd.init</CODE>) script to be removed. The latter is
actually fixed by the apache-1.2.5 RPMs but if you're building your
own Apache then you probably don't want the RedHat files.
</P>
<P>
We can't stress enough how important it is for folks, <EM>especially
vendors</EM> to follow the <A HREF="../stopping.html">stopping Apache
directions</A> given in our documentation. In RedHat's defense,
the broken scripts were necessary with Apache 1.1.x because the
Linux support in 1.1.x was very poor, and there were various race
conditions on all platforms. None of this should be necessary with
Apache 1.2 and later.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="stopping">
<STRONG>I upgraded from an Apache version earlier
than 1.2.0 and suddenly I have problems with Apache dying randomly
or not restarting properly</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You should read <A HREF="#redhat">the previous note</A> about
problems with RedHat installations. It is entirely likely that your
installation has start/stop/restart scripts which were built for
an earlier version of Apache. Versions earlier than 1.2.0 had
various race conditions that made it necessary to use
<CODE>kill -9</CODE> at times to take out all the httpd servers.
But that should not be necessary any longer. You should follow
the <A HREF="../stopping.html">directions on how to stop
and restart Apache</A>.
</P>
<P>As of Apache 1.3 there is a script
<CODE>src/support/apachectl</CODE> which, after a bit of
customization, is suitable for starting, stopping, and restarting
your server.
</P>
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<LI><A HREF="#fdlim">Why can't I run more than <<EM>n</EM>>
virtual hosts?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#freebsd-setsize">Can I increase <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>
on FreeBSD?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#errordoc401">Why doesn't my <CODE>ErrorDocument
401</CODE> work?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#cookies1">Why does Apache send a cookie on every response?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#cookies2">Why don't my cookies work, I even compiled in
<SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#jdk1-and-http1.1">Why do my Java app[let]s give me plain text
when I request an URL from an Apache server?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#midi">How do I get Apache to send a MIDI file so the
browser can play it?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#addlog">How do I add browsers and referrers to my logs?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#set-servername">Why does accessing directories only work
when I include the trailing "/"
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user/</SAMP>) but
not when I omit it
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user</SAMP>)?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#no-info-directives">Why doesn't mod_info list any
directives?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#namevhost">I upgraded to Apache 1.3 and now my
virtual hosts don't work!</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#redhat-htm">I'm using RedHat Linux and my .htm files are
showing up as HTML source rather than being formatted!</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#htaccess-work">My <CODE>.htaccess</CODE> files are being
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<LI><A NAME="fdlim">
<STRONG>Why can't I run more than <<EM>n</EM>>
virtual hosts?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You are probably running into resource limitations in your
operating system. The most common limitation is the
<EM>per</EM>-process limit on <STRONG>file descriptors</STRONG>,
which is almost always the cause of problems seen when adding
virtual hosts. Apache often does not give an intuitive error
message because it is normally some library routine (such as
<CODE>gethostbyname()</CODE>) which needs file descriptors and
doesn't complain intelligibly when it can't get them.
</P>
<P>
Each log file requires a file descriptor, which means that if you are
using separate access and error logs for each virtual host, each
virtual host needs two file descriptors. Each
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
directive also needs a file descriptor.
</P>
<P>
Typical values for <<EM>n</EM>> that we've seen are in
the neighborhood of 128 or 250. When the server bumps into the file
descriptor limit, it may dump core with a SIGSEGV, it might just
hang, or it may limp along and you'll see (possibly meaningful) errors
in the error log. One common problem that occurs when you run into
a file descriptor limit is that CGI scripts stop being executed
properly.
</P>
<P>
As to what you can do about this:
</P>
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<LI>Reduce the number of
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
directives. If there are no other servers running on the machine
on the same port then you normally don't
need any Listen directives at all. By default Apache listens to
all addresses on port 80.
</LI>
<LI>Reduce the number of log files. You can use
<A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html"><SAMP>mod_log_config</SAMP></A>
to log all requests to a single log file while including the name
of the virtual host in the log file. You can then write a
script to split the logfile into separate files later if
necessary. Such a script is provided with the Apache 1.3 distribution
in the <SAMP>src/support/split-logfile</SAMP> file.
</LI>
<LI>Increase the number of file descriptors available to the server
(see your system's documentation on the <CODE>limit</CODE> or
<CODE>ulimit</CODE> commands). For some systems, information on
how to do this is available in the
<A HREF="perf.html">performance hints</A> page. There is a specific
note for <A HREF="#freebsd-setsize">FreeBSD</A> below.
<P>
For Windows 95, try modifying your <SAMP>C:\CONFIG.SYS</SAMP> file to
include a line like
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>FILES=300</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
Remember that you'll need to reboot your Windows 95 system in order
for the new value to take effect.
</P>
</LI>
<LI>"Don't do that" - try to run with fewer virtual hosts
</LI>
<LI>Spread your operation across multiple server processes (using
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#listen"><SAMP>Listen</SAMP></A>
for example, but see the first point) and/or ports.
</LI>
</OL>
<P>
Since this is an operating-system limitation, there's not much else
available in the way of solutions.
</P>
<P>
As of 1.2.1 we have made attempts to work around various limitations
involving running with many descriptors.
<A HREF="descriptors.html">More information is available.</A>
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="freebsd-setsize">
<STRONG>Can I increase <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> on FreeBSD?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
On versions of FreeBSD before 3.0, the <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> define
defaults to 256. This means that you will have trouble usefully using
more than 256 file descriptors in Apache. This can be increased, but
doing so can be tricky.
</P>
<P>
If you are using a version prior to 2.2, you need to recompile your
kernel with a larger <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>. This can be done by adding a
line such as:
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>options FD_SETSIZE <EM>nnn</EM></CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
to your kernel config file. Starting at version 2.2, this is no
longer necessary.
</P>
<P>
If you are using a version of 2.1-stable from after 1997/03/10 or
2.2 or 3.0-current from before 1997/06/28, there is a limit in
the resolver library that prevents it from using more file descriptors
than what <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> is set to when libc is compiled. To
increase this, you have to recompile libc with a higher
<SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP>.
</P>
<P>
In FreeBSD 3.0, the default <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> has been increased to
1024 and the above limitation in the resolver library
has been removed.
</P>
<P>
After you deal with the appropriate changes above, you can increase
the setting of <SAMP>FD_SETSIZE</SAMP> at Apache compilation time
by adding "<SAMP>-DFD_SETSIZE=<EM>nnn</EM></SAMP>" to the
<SAMP>EXTRA_CFLAGS</SAMP> line in your <SAMP>Configuration</SAMP>
file.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="errordoc401">
<STRONG>Why doesn't my <CODE>ErrorDocument 401</CODE> work?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You need to use it with a URL in the form
"<SAMP>/foo/bar</SAMP>" and not one with a method and
hostname such as "<SAMP>http://host/foo/bar</SAMP>". See the
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#errordocument"><SAMP>ErrorDocument</SAMP></A>
documentation for details. This was incorrectly documented in the past.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="cookies1">
<STRONG>Why does Apache send a cookie on every response?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache does <EM>not</EM> automatically send a cookie on every
response, unless you have re-compiled it with the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_usertrack.html"><SAMP>mod_usertrack</SAMP></A>
module, and specifically enabled it with the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookietracking"
><SAMP>CookieTracking</SAMP></A>
directive.
This module has been in Apache since version 1.2.
This module may help track users, and uses cookies to do this. If
you are not using the data generated by <SAMP>mod_usertrack</SAMP>, do
not compile it into Apache.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="cookies2">
<STRONG>Why don't my cookies work, I even compiled in
<SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>?
</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Firstly, you do <EM>not</EM> need to compile in
<SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP> in order for your scripts to work (see the
<A HREF="#cookies1">previous question</A>
for more about <SAMP>mod_cookies</SAMP>). Apache passes on your
<SAMP>Set-Cookie</SAMP> header fine, with or without this module. If
cookies do not work it will be because your script does not work
properly or your browser does not use cookies or is not set-up to
accept them.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="jdk1-and-http1.1">
<STRONG>Why do my Java app[let]s give me plain text when I request
an URL from an Apache server?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
As of version 1.2, Apache is an HTTP/1.1 (HyperText Transfer Protocol
version 1.1) server. This fact is reflected in the protocol version
that's included in the response headers sent to a client when
processing a request. Unfortunately, low-level Web access classes
included in the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.0.2 expect to see
the version string "HTTP/1.0" and do not correctly interpret
the "HTTP/1.1" value Apache is sending (this part of the
response is a declaration of what the server can do rather than a
declaration of the dialect of the response). The result
is that the JDK methods do not correctly parse the headers, and
include them with the document content by mistake.
</P>
<P>
This is definitely a bug in the JDK 1.0.2 foundation classes from Sun,
and it has been fixed in version 1.1. However, the classes in
question are part of the virtual machine environment, which means
they're part of the Web browser (if Java-enabled) or the Java
environment on the client system - so even if you develop
<EM>your</EM> classes with a recent JDK, the eventual users might
encounter the problem.
The classes involved are replaceable by vendors implementing the
Java virtual machine environment, and so even those that are based
upon the 1.0.2 version may not have this problem.
</P>
<P>
In the meantime, a workaround is to tell
Apache to "fake" an HTTP/1.0 response to requests that come
from the JDK methods; this can be done by including a line such as the
following in your server configuration files:
</P>
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>BrowserMatch Java1.0 force-response-1.0
<BR>
BrowserMatch JDK/1.0 force-response-1.0</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
More information about this issue can be found in the
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/info/jdk-102.html"
><CITE>Java and HTTP/1.1</CITE></A>
page at the Apache web site.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="midi">
<STRONG>How do I get Apache to send a MIDI file so the browser can
play it?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Even though the registered MIME type for MIDI files is
<SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP>, some browsers are not set up to recognize it
as such; instead, they look for <SAMP>audio/x-midi</SAMP>. There are
two things you can do to address this:
</P>
<OL>
<LI>Configure your browser to treat documents of type
<SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP> correctly. This is the type that Apache
sends by default. This may not be workable, however, if you have
many client installations to change, or if some or many of the
clients are not under your control.
</LI>
<LI>Instruct Apache to send a different <SAMP>Content-type</SAMP>
header for these files by adding the following line to your server's
configuration files:
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>AddType audio/x-midi .mid .midi .kar</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
Note that this may break browsers that <EM>do</EM> recognize the
<SAMP>audio/midi</SAMP> MIME type unless they're prepared to also
handle <SAMP>audio/x-midi</SAMP> the same way.
</P>
</LI>
</OL>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="addlog">
<STRONG>How do I add browsers and referrers to my logs?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache provides a couple of different ways of doing this. The
recommended method is to compile the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html"><SAMP>mod_log_config</SAMP></A>
module into your configuration and use the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog"><SAMP>CustomLog</SAMP></A>
directive.
</P>
<P>
You can either log the additional information in files other than your
normal transfer log, or you can add them to the records already being
written. For example:
</P>
<P>
<CODE>
CustomLog logs/access_log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
</CODE>
</P>
<P>
This will add the values of the <SAMP>User-agent:</SAMP> and
<SAMP>Referer:</SAMP> headers, which indicate the client and the
referring page, respectively, to the end of each line in the access
log.
</P>
<P>
You may want to check out the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article
entitled:
"<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/logfiles" REL="Help"
><CITE>Gathering Visitor Information: Customizing Your
Logfiles</CITE></A>".
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="set-servername">
<STRONG>Why does accessing directories only work when I include
the trailing "/"
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user/</SAMP>)
but not when I omit it
(<EM>e.g.</EM>, <SAMP>http://foo.domain.com/~user</SAMP>)?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
When you access a directory without a trailing "/", Apache needs
to send what is called a redirect to the client to tell it to
add the trailing slash. If it did not do so, relative URLs would
not work properly. When it sends the redirect, it needs to know
the name of the server so that it can include it in the redirect.
There are two ways for Apache to find this out; either it can guess,
or you can tell it. If your DNS is configured correctly, it can
normally guess without any problems. If it is not, however, then
you need to tell it.
</P>
<P>
Add a <A HREF="../mod/core.html#servername">ServerName</A> directive
to the config file to tell it what the domain name of the server is.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="no-info-directives">
<STRONG>Why doesn't mod_info list any directives?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
The <A HREF="../mod/mod_info.html"><SAMP>mod_info</SAMP></A>
module allows you to use a Web browser to see how your server is
configured. Among the information it displays is the list modules and
their configuration directives. The "current" values for
the directives are not necessarily those of the running server; they
are extracted from the configuration files themselves at the time of
the request. If the files have been changed since the server was last
reloaded, the display will will not match the values actively in use.
If the files and the path to the files are not readable by the user as
which the server is running (see the
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#user"><SAMP>User</SAMP></A>
directive), then <SAMP>mod_info</SAMP> cannot read them in order to
list their values. An entry <EM>will</EM> be made in the error log in
this event, however.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="namevhost">
<STRONG>I upgraded to Apache 1.3 and now my virtual hosts don't
work!</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
In versions of Apache prior to 1.3b2, there was a lot of confusion
regarding address-based virtual hosts and (HTTP/1.1) name-based
virtual hosts, and the rules concerning how the server processed
<SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> definitions were very complex and not
well documented.
</P>
<P>
Apache 1.3b2 introduced a new directive,
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost"
><SAMP>NameVirtualHost</SAMP></A>,
which simplifies the rules quite a bit. However, changing the rules
like this means that your existing name-based
<SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> containers probably won't work
correctly immediately following the upgrade.
</P>
<P>
To correct this problem, add the following line to the beginning of
your server configuration file, before defining any virtual hosts:
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>NameVirtualHost <EM>n.n.n.n</EM></CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
Replace the "<SAMP>n.n.n.n</SAMP>" with the IP address to
which the name-based virtual host names resolve; if you have multiple
name-based hosts on multiple addresses, repeat the directive for each
address.
</P>
<P>
Make sure that your name-based <SAMP><VirtualHost></SAMP> blocks
contain <SAMP>ServerName</SAMP> and possibly <SAMP>ServerAlias</SAMP>
directives so Apache can be sure to tell them apart correctly.
</P>
<P>
Please see the
<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/">Apache
Virtual Host documentation</A> for further details about configuration.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="redhat-htm">
<STRONG>I'm using RedHat Linux and my .htm files are showing
up as HTML source rather than being formatted!</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
RedHat messed up and forgot to put a content type for <CODE>.htm</CODE>
files into <CODE>/etc/mime.types</CODE>. Edit <CODE>/etc/mime.types</CODE>,
find the line containing <CODE>html</CODE> and add <CODE>htm</CODE> to it.
Then restart your httpd server:
</P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
Then <STRONG>clear your browsers' caches</STRONG>. (Many browsers won't
re-examine the content type after they've reloaded a page.)
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="htaccess-work">
<STRONG>My <CODE>.htaccess</CODE> files are being ignored.</STRONG></A>
<P>
This is almost always due to your <A HREF="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">
AllowOverride</A> directive being set incorrectly for the directory in
question. If it is set to <CODE>None</CODE> then .htaccess files will
not even be looked for. If you do have one that is set, then be certain
it covers the directory you are trying to use the .htaccess file in.
This is normally accomplished by ensuring it is inside the proper
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#directory">Directory</A> container.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#CGIoutsideScriptAlias">How do I enable CGI execution
in directories other than the ScriptAlias?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#premature-script-headers">What does it mean when my
CGIs fail with "<SAMP>Premature end of script
headers</SAMP>"?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#POSTnotallowed">Why do I keep getting "Method Not
Allowed" for form POST requests?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#nph-scripts">How can I get my script's output without
Apache buffering it? Why doesn't my server push work?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#cgi-spec">Where can I find the "CGI
specification"?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#fastcgi">Why isn't FastCGI included with Apache any
more?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-i">How do I enable SSI (parsed HTML)?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-ii">Why don't my parsed files get cached?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-iii">How can I have my script output parsed?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#ssi-part-iv">SSIs don't work for VirtualHosts and/or
user home directories</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#errordocssi">How can I use <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>
and SSI to simplify customized error messages?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#remote-user-var">Why is the environment variable
<SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> not set?</A>
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<OL>
<LI><A NAME="CGIoutsideScriptAlias">
<STRONG>How do I enable CGI execution in directories other than
the ScriptAlias?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache recognizes all files in a directory named as a
<A HREF="../mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias"><SAMP>ScriptAlias</SAMP></A>
as being eligible for execution rather than processing as normal
documents. This applies regardless of the file name, so scripts in a
ScriptAlias directory don't need to be named
"<SAMP>*.cgi</SAMP>" or "<SAMP>*.pl</SAMP>" or
whatever. In other words, <EM>all</EM> files in a ScriptAlias
directory are scripts, as far as Apache is concerned.
</P>
<P>
To persuade Apache to execute scripts in other locations, such as in
directories where normal documents may also live, you must tell it how
to recognize them - and also that it's okay to execute them. For
this, you need to use something like the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler"><SAMP>AddHandler</SAMP></A>
directive.
</P>
<P>
<OL>
<LI>In an appropriate section of your server configuration files, add
a line such as
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>AddHandler cgi-script .cgi</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
The server will then recognize that all files in that location (and
its logical descendants) that end in "<SAMP>.cgi</SAMP>"
are script files, not documents.
</P>
</LI>
<LI>Make sure that the directory location is covered by an
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
declaration that includes the <SAMP>ExecCGI</SAMP> option.
</LI>
</OL>
<P></P>
<P>
In some situations, you might not want to actually
allow all files named "<SAMP>*.cgi</SAMP>" to be executable.
Perhaps all you want is to enable a particular file in a normal directory to
be executable. This can be alternatively accomplished
<EM>via</EM> <A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
and the following steps:
</P>
<P>
<OL>
<LI>Locally add to the corresponding <SAMP>.htaccess</SAMP> file a ruleset
similar to this one:
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>RewriteEngine on
<BR>
RewriteBase /~foo/bar/
<BR>
RewriteRule ^quux\.cgi$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
</LI>
<LI>Make sure that the directory location is covered by an
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
declaration that includes the <SAMP>ExecCGI</SAMP> and
<SAMP>FollowSymLinks</SAMP> option.
</LI>
</OL>
<P></P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="premature-script-headers">
<STRONG>What does it mean when my CGIs fail with
"<SAMP>Premature end of script headers</SAMP>"?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
It means just what it says: the server was expecting a complete set of
HTTP headers (one or more followed by a blank line), and didn't get
them.
</P>
<P>
The most common cause of this problem is the script dying before
sending the complete set of headers, or possibly any at all, to the
server. To see if this is the case, try running the script standalone
from an interactive session, rather than as a script under the server.
If you get error messages, this is almost certainly the cause of the
"premature end of script headers" message.
</P>
<P>
The second most common cause of this (aside from people not
outputting the required headers at all) is a result of an interaction
with Perl's output buffering. To make Perl flush its buffers
after each output statement, insert the following statements around
the <CODE>print</CODE> or <CODE>write</CODE> statements that send your
HTTP headers:
</P>
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>{<BR>
local ($oldbar) = $|;<BR>
$cfh = select (STDOUT);<BR>
$| = 1;<BR>
#<BR>
# print your HTTP headers here<BR>
#<BR>
$| = $oldbar;<BR>
select ($cfh);<BR>
}</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
This is generally only necessary when you are calling external
programs from your script that send output to stdout, or if there will
be a long delay between the time the headers are sent and the actual
content starts being emitted. To maximize performance, you should
turn buffer-flushing back <EM>off</EM> (with <CODE>$| = 0</CODE> or the
equivalent) after the statements that send the headers, as displayed
above.
</P>
<P>
If your script isn't written in Perl, do the equivalent thing for
whatever language you <EM>are</EM> using (<EM>e.g.</EM>, for C, call
<CODE>fflush()</CODE> after writing the headers).
</P>
<P>
Another cause for the "premature end of script headers"
message are the RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM directives. You may
get the message if the CGI script was killed due to a
resource limit.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="POSTnotallowed">
<STRONG>Why do I keep getting "Method Not Allowed" for
form POST requests?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This is almost always due to Apache not being configured to treat the
file you are trying to POST to as a CGI script. You can not POST
to a normal HTML file; the operation has no meaning. See the FAQ
entry on <A HREF="#CGIoutsideScriptAlias">CGIs outside ScriptAliased
directories</A> for details on how to configure Apache to treat the
file in question as a CGI.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="nph-scripts">
<STRONG>How can I get my script's output without Apache buffering
it? Why doesn't my server push work?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
As of Apache 1.3, CGI scripts are essentially not buffered. Every time
your script does a "flush" to output data, that data gets relayed on to
the client. Some scripting languages, for example Perl, have their own
buffering for output - this can be disabled by setting the <CODE>$|</CODE>
special variable to 1. Of course this does increase the overall number
of packets being transmitted, which can result in a sense of slowness for
the end user.
</P>
<P>Prior to 1.3, you needed to use "nph-" scripts to accomplish
non-buffering. Today, the only difference between nph scripts and
normal scripts is that nph scripts require the full HTTP headers to
be sent.
</P>
<HR>
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<LI><A NAME="cgi-spec">
<STRONG>Where can I find the "CGI specification"?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) specification can be found at
the original NCSA site
<<A HREF="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html">
<SAMP>http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html</SAMP></A>>.
This version hasn't been updated since 1995, and there have been
some efforts to update it.
</P>
<P>
A new draft is being worked on with the intent of making it an informational
RFC; you can find out more about this project at
<<A HREF="http://web.golux.com/coar/cgi/"
><SAMP>http://web.golux.com/coar/cgi/</SAMP></A>>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="fastcgi">
<STRONG>Why isn't FastCGI included with Apache any more?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
The simple answer is that it was becoming too difficult to keep the
version being included with Apache synchronized with the master copy
at the
<A HREF="http://www.fastcgi.com/"
>FastCGI web site</A>. When a new version of Apache was released, the
version of the FastCGI module included with it would soon be out of date.
</P>
<P>
You can still obtain the FastCGI module for Apache from the master
FastCGI web site.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="ssi-part-i">
<STRONG>How do I enable SSI (parsed HTML)?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
SSI (an acronym for Server-Side Include) directives allow static HTML
documents to be enhanced at run-time (<EM>e.g.</EM>, when delivered to
a client by Apache). The format of SSI directives is covered
in the <A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include manual</A>;
suffice it to say that Apache supports not only SSI but
xSSI (eXtended SSI) directives.
</P>
<P>
Processing a document at run-time is called <EM>parsing</EM> it; hence
the term "parsed HTML" sometimes used for documents that
contain SSI instructions. Parsing tends to be <EM>extremely</EM>
resource-consumptive, and is not enabled by default. It can also
interfere with the cachability of your documents, which can put a
further load on your server. (see the
<A HREF="#ssi-part-ii">next question</A> for more information about this.)
</P>
<P>
To enable SSI processing, you need to
</P>
<UL>
<LI>Build your server with the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html"><SAMP>mod_include</SAMP></A>
module. This is normally compiled in by default.
</LI>
<LI>Make sure your server configuration files have an
<A HREF="../mod/core.html#options"><SAMP>Options</SAMP></A>
directive which permits <SAMP>Includes</SAMP>.
</LI>
<LI>Make sure that the directory where you want the SSI documents to
live is covered by the "server-parsed" content handler,
either explicitly or in some ancestral location. That can be done
with the following
<A HREF="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler"><SAMP>AddHandler</SAMP></A>
directive:
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>AddHandler server-parsed .shtml</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
This indicates that all files ending in ".shtml" in that
location (or its descendants) should be parsed. Note that using
".html" will cause all normal HTML files to be parsed,
which may put an inordinate load on your server.
</P>
</LI>
</UL>
<P>
For additional information, see the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article on
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssi" REL="Help"
><CITE>Using Server Side Includes</CITE></A>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="ssi-part-ii">
<STRONG>Why don't my parsed files get cached?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Since the server is performing run-time processing of your SSI
directives, which may change the content shipped to the client, it
can't know at the time it starts parsing what the final size of the
result will be, or whether the parsed result will always be the same.
This means that it can't generate <SAMP>Content-Length</SAMP> or
<SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> headers. Caches commonly work by comparing
the <SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> of what's in the cache with that being
delivered by the server. Since the server isn't sending that header
for a parsed document, whatever's doing the caching can't tell whether
the document has changed or not - and so fetches it again to be on the
safe side.
</P>
<P>
You can work around this in some cases by causing an
<SAMP>Expires</SAMP> header to be generated. (See the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_expires.html" REL="Help"><SAMP>mod_expires</SAMP></A>
documentation for more details.) Another possibility is to use the
<A HREF="../mod/mod_include.html#xbithack" REL="Help"
><SAMP>XBitHack Full</SAMP></A>
mechanism, which tells Apache to send (under certain circumstances
detailed in the XBitHack directive description) a
<SAMP>Last-Modified</SAMP> header based upon the last modification
time of the file being parsed. Note that this may actually be lying
to the client if the parsed file doesn't change but the SSI-inserted
content does; if the included content changes often, this can result
in stale copies being cached.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="ssi-part-iii">
<STRONG>How can I have my script output parsed?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
So you want to include SSI directives in the output from your CGI
script, but can't figure out how to do it?
The short answer is "you can't." This is potentially
a security liability and, more importantly, it can not be cleanly
implemented under the current server API. The best workaround
is for your script itself to do what the SSIs would be doing.
After all, it's generating the rest of the content.
</P>
<P>
This is a feature The Apache Group hopes to add in the next major
release after 1.3.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="ssi-part-iv">
<STRONG>SSIs don't work for VirtualHosts and/or
user home directories.</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This is almost always due to having some setting in your config file that
sets "Options Includes" or some other setting for your DocumentRoot
but not for other directories. If you set it inside a Directory
section, then that setting will only apply to that directory.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="errordocssi">
<STRONG>How can I use <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>
and SSI to simplify customized error messages?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Have a look at <A HREF="custom_errordocs.html">this document</A>.
It shows in example form how you can a combination of XSSI and
negotiation to tailor a set of <CODE>ErrorDocument</CODE>s to your
personal taste, and returning different internationalized error
responses based on the client's native language.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="remote-user-var">
<STRONG>Why is the environment variable
<SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> not set?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
This variable is set and thus available in SSI or CGI scripts <STRONG>if and
only if</STRONG> the requested document was protected by access
authentication. For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions,
see
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>'s
articles on
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth"
><CITE>Using User Authentication</CITE></A>
or
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/dbmauth"
><CITE>DBM User Authentication</CITE></A>.
</P>
<P>
Hint: When using a CGI script to receive the data of a HTML <SAMP>FORM</SAMP>
notice that protecting the document containing the <SAMP>FORM</SAMP> is not
sufficient to provide <SAMP>REMOTE_USER</SAMP> to the CGI script. You have
to protect the CGI script, too. Or alternatively only the CGI script (then
authentication happens only after filling out the form).
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<LI VALUE="7"><STRONG>Authentication and Access Restrictions</STRONG>
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<LI><A HREF="#dnsauth">Why isn't restricting access by host or domain name
working correctly?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#user-authentication">How do I set up Apache to require
a username and password to access certain documents?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#remote-auth-only">How do I set up Apache to allow access
to certain documents only if a site is either a local site
<EM>or</EM> the user supplies a password and username?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#authauthoritative">Why does my authentication give
me a server error?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#auth-on-same-machine">Do I have to keep the (mSQL)
authentication information on the same machine?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#msql-slow">Why is my mSQL authentication terribly slow?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#passwdauth">Can I use my <SAMP>/etc/passwd</SAMP> file
for Web page authentication?</A>
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<OL>
<LI><A NAME="dnsauth">
<STRONG>Why isn't restricting access by host or domain name
working correctly?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Two of the most common causes of this are:
</P>
<OL>
<LI><STRONG>An error, inconsistency, or unexpected mapping in the DNS
registration</STRONG>
<BR>
This happens frequently: your configuration restricts access to
<SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP>, but you can't get in from that host.
The usual reason for this is that <SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP> is
actually an alias for another name, and when Apache performs the
address-to-name lookup it's getting the <EM>real</EM> name, not
<SAMP>Host.FooBar.Com</SAMP>. You can verify this by checking the
reverse lookup yourself. The easiest way to work around it is to
specify the correct host name in your configuration.
</LI>
<LI><STRONG>Inadequate checking and verification in your
configuration of Apache</STRONG>
<BR>
If you intend to perform access checking and restriction based upon
the client's host or domain name, you really need to configure
Apache to double-check the origin information it's supplied. You do
this by adding the <SAMP>-DMAXIMUM_DNS</SAMP> clause to the
<SAMP>EXTRA_CFLAGS</SAMP> definition in your
<SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> file. For example:
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DMAXIMUM_DNS</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
This will cause Apache to be very paranoid about making sure a
particular host address is <EM>really</EM> assigned to the name it
claims to be. Note that this <EM>can</EM> incur a significant
performance penalty, however, because of all the name resolution
requests being sent to a nameserver.
</P>
</LI>
</OL>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="user-authentication">
<STRONG>How do I set up Apache to require a username and
password to access certain documents?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
There are several ways to do this; some of the more popular
ones are to use the <A HREF="../mod/mod_auth.html">mod_auth</A>,
<A HREF="../mod/mod_auth_db.html">mod_auth_db</A>, or
<A HREF="../mod/mod_auth_dbm.html">mod_auth_dbm</A> modules.
</P>
<P>
For an explanation on how to implement these restrictions, see
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/"><CITE>Apache Week</CITE></A>'s
articles on
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth"
><CITE>Using User Authentication</CITE></A>
or
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/dbmauth"
><CITE>DBM User Authentication</CITE></A>.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="remote-auth-only">
<STRONG>How do I set up Apache to allow access to certain
documents only if a site is either a local site <EM>or</EM>
the user supplies a password and username?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Use the <A HREF="../mod/core.html#satisfy">Satisfy</A> directive,
in particular the <CODE>Satisfy Any</CODE> directive, to require
that only one of the access restrictions be met. For example,
adding the following configuration to a <SAMP>.htaccess</SAMP>
or server configuration file would restrict access to people who
either are accessing the site from a host under domain.com or
who can supply a valid username and password:
</P>
<P>
<DL>
<DD><CODE>deny from all
<BR>
allow from .domain.com
<BR>
AuthType Basic
<BR>
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/htpasswd.users
<BR>
AuthName "special directory"
<BR>
require valid-user
<BR>
satisfy any</CODE>
</DD>
</DL>
<P></P>
<P>
See the <A HREF="#user-authentication">user authentication</A>
question and the <A HREF="../mod/mod_access.html">mod_access</A>
module for details on how the above directives work.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="authauthoritative">
<STRONG>Why does my authentication give me a server error?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Under normal circumstances, the Apache access control modules will
pass unrecognized user IDs on to the next access control module in
line. Only if the user ID is recognized and the password is validated
(or not) will it give the usual success or "authentication
failed" messages.
</P>
<P>
However, if the last access module in line 'declines' the validation
request (because it has never heard of the user ID or because it is not
configured), the <SAMP>http_request</SAMP> handler will give one of
the following, confusing, errors:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><SAMP>check access</SAMP>
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>check user. No user file?</SAMP>
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>check access. No groups file?</SAMP>
</LI>
</UL>
<P>
This does <EM>not</EM> mean that you have to add an
'<SAMP>AuthUserFile /dev/null</SAMP>' line as some magazines suggest!
</P>
<P>
The solution is to ensure that at least the last module is authoritative
and <STRONG>CONFIGURED</STRONG>. By default, <SAMP>mod_auth</SAMP> is
authoritative and will give an OK/Denied, but only if it is configured
with the proper <SAMP>AuthUserFile</SAMP>. Likewise, if a valid group
is required. (Remember that the modules are processed in the reverse
order from that in which they appear in your compile-time
<SAMP>Configuration</SAMP> file.)
</P>
<P>
A typical situation for this error is when you are using the
<SAMP>mod_auth_dbm</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>,
<SAMP>mod_auth_mysql</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_anon</SAMP> or
<SAMP>mod_auth_cookie</SAMP> modules on their own. These are by
default <STRONG>not</STRONG> authoritative, and this will pass the
buck on to the (non-existent) next authentication module when the
user ID is not in their respective database. Just add the appropriate
'<SAMP><EM>XXX</EM>Authoritative yes</SAMP>' line to the configuration.
</P>
<P>
In general it is a good idea (though not terribly efficient) to have the
file-based <SAMP>mod_auth</SAMP> a module of last resort. This allows
you to access the web server with a few special passwords even if the
databases are down or corrupted. This does cost a
file open/seek/close for each request in a protected area.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="auth-on-same-machine">
<STRONG>Do I have to keep the (mSQL) authentication information
on the same machine?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Some organizations feel very strongly about keeping the authentication
information on a different machine than the webserver. With the
<SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>, <SAMP>mod_auth_mysql</SAMP>, and other SQL
modules connecting to (R)DBMses this is quite possible. Just configure
an explicit host to contact.
</P>
<P>
Be aware that with mSQL and Oracle, opening and closing these database
connections is very expensive and time consuming. You might want to
look at the code in the <SAMP>auth_*</SAMP> modules and play with the
compile time flags to alleviate this somewhat, if your RDBMS licences
allow for it.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="msql-slow">
<STRONG>Why is my mSQL authentication terribly slow?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You have probably configured the Host by specifying a FQHN,
and thus the <SAMP>libmsql</SAMP> will use a full blown TCP/IP socket
to talk to the database, rather than a fast internal device. The
<SAMP>libmsql</SAMP>, the mSQL FAQ, and the <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP>
documentation warn you about this. If you have to use different
hosts, check out the <SAMP>mod_auth_msql</SAMP> code for
some compile time flags which might - or might not - suit you.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="passwdauth">
<STRONG>Can I use my <SAMP>/etc/passwd</SAMP> file
for Web page authentication?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Yes, you can - but it's a <STRONG>very bad idea</STRONG>. Here are
some of the reasons:
</P>
<UL>
<LI>The Web technology provides no governors on how often or how
rapidly password (authentication failure) retries can be made. That
means that someone can hammer away at your system's
<SAMP>root</SAMP> password using the Web, using a dictionary or
similar mass attack, just as fast as the wire and your server can
handle the requests. Most operating systems these days include
attack detection (such as <EM>n</EM> failed passwords for the same
account within <EM>m</EM> seconds) and evasion (breaking the
connection, disabling the account under attack, disabling
<EM>all</EM> logins from that source, <EM>et cetera</EM>), but the
Web does not.
</LI>
<LI>An account under attack isn't notified (unless the server is
heavily modified); there's no "You have 19483 login
failures" message when the legitimate owner logs in.
</LI>
<LI>Without an exhaustive and error-prone examination of the server
logs, you can't tell whether an account has been compromised.
Detecting that an attack has occurred, or is in progress, is fairly
obvious, though - <EM>if</EM> you look at the logs.
</LI>
<LI>Web authentication passwords (at least for Basic authentication)
generally fly across the wire, and through intermediate proxy
systems, in what amounts to plain text. "O'er the net we
go/Caching all the way;/O what fun it is to surf/Giving my password
away!"
</LI>
<LI>Since HTTP is stateless, information about the authentication is
transmitted <EM>each and every time</EM> a request is made to the
server. Essentially, the client caches it after the first
successful access, and transmits it without asking for all
subsequent requests to the same server.
</LI>
<LI>It's relatively trivial for someone on your system to put up a
page that will steal the cached password from a client's cache
without them knowing. Can you say "password grabber"?
</LI>
</UL>
<P>
If you still want to do this in light of the above disadvantages, the
method is left as an exercise for the reader. It'll void your Apache
warranty, though, and you'll lose all accumulated UNIX guru points.
</P>
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<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-more-config">Where can I find mod_rewrite rulesets
which already solve particular URL-related problems?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-article">Where can I find any published information
about URL-manipulations and mod_rewrite?</A>
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and seems so complicated?</A>
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</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-prefixdocroot">Why don't some of my URLs get
prefixed with DocumentRoot when using mod_rewrite?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-nocase">How can I make all my URLs case-insensitive
with mod_rewrite?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-virthost">Why are RewriteRules in my VirtualHost
parts ignored?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#rewrite-envwhitespace">How can I use strings with whitespaces
in RewriteRule's ENV flag?</A>
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<LI><A NAME="rewrite-more-config">
<STRONG>Where can I find mod_rewrite rulesets which already solve
particular URL-related problems?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
There is a collection of
<A HREF="http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/"
>Practical Solutions for URL-Manipulation</A>
where you can
find all typical solutions the author of
<A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
currently knows of. If you have more
interesting rulesets which solve particular problems not currently covered in
this document, send it to
<A HREF="mailto:rse@apache.org">Ralf S. Engelschall</A>
for inclusion. The
other webmasters will thank you for avoiding the reinvention of the wheel.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-article">
<STRONG>Where can I find any published information about
URL-manipulations and mod_rewrite?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
There is an article from
<A HREF="mailto:rse@apache.org"
>Ralf S. Engelschall</A>
about URL-manipulations based on
<A HREF="../mod/mod_rewrite.html"><SAMP>mod_rewrite</SAMP></A>
in the "iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin" issue #12/96. The
german (original) version
can be read online at
<<A HREF="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/9612149/"
>http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/9612149/</A>>,
the English (translated) version can be found at
<<A HREF="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/9612149/"
>http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/9612149/</A>>.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-complexity">
<STRONG>Why is mod_rewrite so difficult to learn and seems so
complicated?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Hmmm... there are a lot of reasons. First, mod_rewrite itself is a powerful
module which can help you in really <STRONG>all</STRONG> aspects of URL
rewriting, so it can be no trivial module per definition. To accomplish
its hard job it uses software leverage and makes use of a powerful regular
expression
library by Henry Spencer which is an integral part of Apache since its
version 1.2. And regular expressions itself can be difficult to newbies,
while providing the most flexible power to the advanced hacker.
</P>
<P>
On the other hand mod_rewrite has to work inside the Apache API environment
and needs to do some tricks to fit there. For instance the Apache API as of
1.x really was not designed for URL rewriting at the <TT>.htaccess</TT>
level of processing. Or the problem of multiple rewrites in sequence, which
is also not handled by the API per design. To provide this features
mod_rewrite has to do some special (but API compliant!) handling which leads
to difficult processing inside the Apache kernel. While the user usually
doesn't see anything of this processing, it can be difficult to find
problems when some of your RewriteRules seem not to work.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-dontwork">
<STRONG>What can I do if my RewriteRules don't work as expected?
</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Use "<SAMP>RewriteLog somefile</SAMP>" and
"<SAMP>RewriteLogLevel 9</SAMP>" and have a precise look at the
steps the rewriting engine performs. This is really the only one and best
way to debug your rewriting configuration.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-prefixdocroot"><STRONG>Why don't some of my URLs
get prefixed with DocumentRoot when using mod_rewrite?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
If the rule starts with <SAMP>/somedir/...</SAMP> make sure that
really no <SAMP>/somedir</SAMP> exists on the filesystem if you
don't want to lead the URL to match this directory, <EM>i.e.</EM>,
there must be no root directory named <SAMP>somedir</SAMP> on the
filesystem. Because if there is such a directory, the URL will not
get prefixed with DocumentRoot. This behaviour looks ugly, but is
really important for some other aspects of URL rewriting.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-nocase">
<STRONG>How can I make all my URLs case-insensitive with mod_rewrite?
</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
You can't! The reason is: First, case translations for arbitrary
length URLs cannot be done <EM>via</EM> regex patterns and
corresponding substitutions. One need a per-character pattern like
sed/Perl <SAMP>tr|..|..|</SAMP> feature. Second, just making URLs
always upper or lower case will not resolve the complete problem of
case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because actually the URLs had to be rewritten
to the correct case-variant residing on the filesystem because in
later processing Apache needs to access the file. And Unix
filesystem is always case-SENSITIVE.
</P>
<P>
But there is a module named <CODE>mod_speling.c</CODE> (yes, it is named
this way!) out there on the net. Try this one.
</P>
<HR>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-virthost">
<STRONG> Why are RewriteRules in my VirtualHost parts ignored?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Because you have to enable the engine for every virtual host explicitly due
to security concerns. Just add a "RewriteEngine on" to your
virtual host configuration parts.
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="rewrite-envwhitespace">
<STRONG> How can I use strings with whitespaces in RewriteRule's ENV
flag?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
There is only one ugly solution: You have to surround the complete
flag argument by quotation marks (<SAMP>"[E=...]"</SAMP>). Notice:
The argument to quote here is not the argument to the E-flag, it is
the argument of the Apache config file parser, <EM>i.e.</EM>, the
third argument of the RewriteRule here. So you have to write
<SAMP>"[E=any text with whitespaces]"</SAMP>.
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<LI><A HREF="#proxy">Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#multiviews">What are "multiviews"?</A>
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<LI><A NAME="proxy">
<STRONG>Does or will Apache act as a Proxy server?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Apache version 1.1 and above comes with a
<A HREF="../mod/mod_proxy.html">proxy module</A>.
If compiled in, this will make Apache act as a caching-proxy server.
</P>
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<STRONG>What are "multiviews"?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
"Multiviews" is the general name given to the Apache
server's ability to provide language-specific document variants in
response to a request. This is documented quite thoroughly in the
<A HREF="../content-negotiation.html" REL="Help">content negotiation</A>
description page. In addition, <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> carried an
article on this subject entitled
"<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/negotiation" REL="Help"
><CITE>Content Negotiation Explained</CITE></A>".
</P>
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</LI>
<LI><A NAME="putsupport">
<STRONG>Why can't I publish to my Apache server using PUT on
Netscape Gold and other programs?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
Because you need to install and configure a script to handle
the uploaded files. This script is often called a "PUT" handler.
There are several available, but they may have security problems.
Using FTP uploads may be easier and more secure, at least for now.
For more information, see the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE> article
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/put"
><CITE>Publishing Pages with PUT</CITE></A>.
</P>
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<LI><A NAME="SSL-i">
<STRONG>Why doesn't Apache include SSL?</STRONG>
</A>
<P>
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data transport requires encryption, and many
governments have restrictions upon the import, export, and use of
encryption technology. If Apache included SSL in the base package,
its distribution would involve all sorts of legal and bureaucratic
issues, and it would no longer be freely available. Also, some of
the technology required to talk to current clients using SSL is
patented by <A HREF="http://www.rsa.com/">RSA Data Security</A>,
who restricts its use without a license.
</P>
<P>
Some SSL implementations of Apache are available, however; see the
"<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/related_projects.html"
>related projects</A>"
page at the main Apache web site.
</P>
<P>
You can find out more about this topic in the <CITE>Apache Week</CITE>
article about
<A HREF="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssl" REL="Help"
><CITE>Apache and Secure Transactions</CITE></A>.
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