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Author: rbowen
Date: Fri Apr 20 12:17:11 2012
New Revision: 1328347
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+++ httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/getting-started.html.en Fri Apr 20 12:17:11 2012
@@ -1,193 +1,219 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!--
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- -->
-<title>Getting Started - Apache HTTP Server</title>
-<link href="./style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" />
-<link href="./style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" />
-<link href="./style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" />
-<link href="./images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head>
-<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header">
-<p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="./faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p>
-<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5</p>
-<img alt="" src="./images/feather.gif" /></div>
-<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="./images/left.gif" /></a></div>
-<div id="path">
-<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="./">Version 2.5</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Getting Started</h1>
-<div class="toplang">
-<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="./en/getting-started.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
-</div>
-
-<p>If you're completely new to the Apache HTTP Server, or even to running
-a website at all, you might not know where to start, or what questions to
-ask. This document walks you through the basics.</p>
-</div>
-<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#clientserver">Clients, Servers, and URLs</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dns">Hostnames and DNS</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#configuration">Configuration Files and Directives</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#content">Web Site Content</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#logs">Log Files and Troubleshooting</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">What Else Do I Need To Know?</a></li>
-</ul></div>
-<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="clientserver" id="clientserver">Clients, Servers, and URLs</a></h2>
-
-
-<p>
-Addresses on the Web are expressed with URLs - Uniform Resource Locators
-- which specify a protocol (e.g. <code>http</code>), a servername (e.g.
-<code>www.apache.org</code>), a URL-path (e.g.
-<code>/docs/current/getting-started.html</code>), and possibly a query
-string (e.g. <code>?arg=value</code>) used to pass additional
-arguments to the server.
-</p>
-
-<p>A client (e.g., a web browser) connects to a server (e.g., your Apache HTTP Server),
-with the specified protocol, and makes a <strong>request</strong> for a resource using the
-URL-path.</p>
-
-<p>The URL-path may represent any number of things on the server. It may
-be a file (like <code>getting-started.html</code>) a handler (like <a href="mod/mod_status.html">server-status</a>) or some kind of program
-file (like <code>index.php</code>). We'll discuss this more below in
-the <a href="#content">Web Site Content</a> section.</p>
-
-<p>
-The server will send a <strong>response</strong> consisting of a status
-code and, optionally, a response body.
-The status code indicates whether the request was successful, and, if not, what
-kind of error condition there was. This tells the client what it should
-do with the response. You can read about the possible response codes in
-<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CommonHTTPStatusCodes">HTTP Server
-wiki</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Details of the transaction, and any error conditions, are written to
-log files. This is discussed in greater detail below in the <a href="#logs">Logs Files and Troubleshooting</a> section.</p>
-
-</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="dns" id="dns">Hostnames and DNS</a></h2>
-
-
-<p>In order to connect to a server, the client will first have to resolve
-the servername to an IP address - the location on the Internet where the
-server resides. Thus, in order for your web server to be reachable, it
-is necessary that the servername be in DNS.</p>
-
-<p>More than one hostname may point to the same IP address, and more
-than one IP address can be attached to the same physical server. Thus, you
-can run more than one web site on the same physical server, using a
-feature called <a href="vhosts/">virtual hosts</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If you don't know how to do this, you'll need to contact your network
-administrator, or Internet service provider, to perform this step for
-you.</p>
-
-<p>If you are testing a server that is not Internet-accessible, you
-can put host names in your hosts file in order to do local resolution.
-For example, you might want to put a record in your hosts file to map a
-request for <code>www.example.com</code> to your local system, for
-testing purposes. This entry would look like:</p>
-
-<div class="example"><p><code>
-127.0.0.1 www.example.com
-</code></p></div>
-
-<p>A hosts file will probably be located at <code>/etc/hosts</code> or
-<code>C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts</code>.</p>
-
-<p>You can read more about the hosts file at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)</a>, and
-more about DNS at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System</a>.</p>
-</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="configuration" id="configuration">Configuration Files and Directives</a></h2>
-
-
-<p>The Apache HTTP Server is configured via simple text files.
-These files may be located any of a variety of places, depending on how
-exactly you installed the server. Common locations for these files may
-be found <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DistrosDefaultLayout">in
-the httpd wiki</a>. If you installed httpd from source, the default
-location of the configuration files is
-<code>/usr/local/apache2/conf</code>. The default configuration file is
-usually called <code>httpd.conf</code>. This, too, can vary in
-third-party distributions of the server.</p>
-
-<p>The configuration is frequently broken into multiple smaller files,
-for ease of management. These files are loaded via the <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#include">Include</a></code> directive. The names or locations of
-these sub-files are not magical, and may vary greatly from one
-installation to another. Arrange and subdivide these files as
-makes the most sense to <strong>you</strong>. If the file arrangement
-you have by default doesn't make sense to you, feel free to rerrange it.</p>
-
-<p>The server is configured by placing <a href="mod/quickreference.html">configuration directives</a> in these
-configuration files. A directive is a keyword followed by one or more
-arguments that set its value.</p>
-
-<p>The question of "<em>Where should I put that
-directive?</em>" is generally answered by considering where you want a
-directive to be effective. If it is a global setting, it should appear
-in the configuration file, outside of any <code class="directive"><Directory></code>, <code class="directive"><Location></code>, <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code>, or other section. If it is to
-apply only to a particular directory, then it should go inside a
-<code class="directive"><Directory></code> section referring to
-that directory, and so on. See the <a href="sections.html">Configuration
-Sections</a> document for further discussion of these sections.</p>
-
-<p>In addition to the main configuration files, certain directives may go in
-<code>.htaccess</code> files located in the content directories.
-<code>.htaccess</code> files are primarily for people who do not have
-access to the main server configuration file(s). You can read more about
-<code>.htaccess</code> files in the <a href="howto/htaccess.html"><code>.htaccess</code> howto</a>.</p>
-
-</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="content" id="content">Web Site Content</a></h2>
-
-
-<p>Web site content can take many different forms, but may be broadly
-divided into static and dynamic content.</p>
-
-<p>Static content is things like HTML files, image files, CSS files,
-and other files that reside in the filesystem. The <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> directive specifies where in your
-filesystem you should place these files. This directive is either set
-globally, or per virual host. Look in your configuration file(s) to
-determine how this is set for your server.</p>
-
-<p>Typically, a document called <code>index.html</code> will be served
-when a directory is requested without a file name being specified. For
-example, if <code>DocumentRoot</code> is set to
-<code>/var/www/html</code> and a request is made for
-<code>http://www.example.com/work/</code>, the file
-<code>/var/www/html/work/index.html</code> will be served to the
-client.</p>
-
-<p>Dynamic content is anything that is generated at request
-time, and may change from one request to another. There are numerous
-ways that dynamic content may be generated. Various <a href="handler.html">handlers</a> are available to generate content. <a href="howto/cgi.html">CGI programs</a> may be written to generate
-content for your site.</p>
-
-<p>Third-party modules like mod_php may be used to write code that does a
-variety of things. Many third-party applications, written using a
-variety of languages and tools, are available for download and
-installation on your Apache HTTP Server. Support of these third-party
-things is beyond the scope of this documentation, and you should find
-their documentation or other support forums to answer your questions
-about them.</p>
-</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="logs" id="logs">Log Files and Troubleshooting</a></h2>
-
-</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
-<h2><a name="other" id="other">What Else Do I Need To Know?</a></h2>
-
-</div></div>
-<div class="bottomlang">
-<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="./en/getting-started.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
-</div><div id="footer">
-<p class="apache">Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p>
-<p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="./faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!--
+ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+ This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT
+ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+ -->
+<title>Getting Started - Apache HTTP Server</title>
+<link href="./style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" />
+<link href="./style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" />
+<link href="./style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" />
+<link href="./images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head>
+<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header">
+<p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="./faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p>
+<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5</p>
+<img alt="" src="./images/feather.gif" /></div>
+<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="./images/left.gif" /></a></div>
+<div id="path">
+<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="./">Version 2.5</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Getting Started</h1>
+<div class="toplang">
+<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="./en/getting-started.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
+</div>
+
+<p>If you're completely new to the Apache HTTP Server, or even to running
+a website at all, you might not know where to start, or what questions to
+ask. This document walks you through the basics.</p>
+</div>
+<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#clientserver">Clients, Servers, and URLs</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dns">Hostnames and DNS</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#configuration">Configuration Files and Directives</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#content">Web Site Content</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#logs">Log Files and Troubleshooting</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">What Else Do I Need To Know?</a></li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="clientserver" id="clientserver">Clients, Servers, and URLs</a></h2>
+
+
+<p>
+Addresses on the Web are expressed with URLs - Uniform Resource Locators
+- which specify a protocol (e.g. <code>http</code>), a servername (e.g.
+<code>www.apache.org</code>), a URL-path (e.g.
+<code>/docs/current/getting-started.html</code>), and possibly a query
+string (e.g. <code>?arg=value</code>) used to pass additional
+arguments to the server.
+</p>
+
+<p>A client (e.g., a web browser) connects to a server (e.g., your Apache HTTP Server),
+with the specified protocol, and makes a <strong>request</strong> for a resource using the
+URL-path.</p>
+
+<p>The URL-path may represent any number of things on the server. It may
+be a file (like <code>getting-started.html</code>) a handler (like <a href="mod/mod_status.html">server-status</a>) or some kind of program
+file (like <code>index.php</code>). We'll discuss this more below in
+the <a href="#content">Web Site Content</a> section.</p>
+
+<p>
+The server will send a <strong>response</strong> consisting of a status
+code and, optionally, a response body.
+The status code indicates whether the request was successful, and, if not, what
+kind of error condition there was. This tells the client what it should
+do with the response. You can read about the possible response codes in
+<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CommonHTTPStatusCodes">HTTP Server
+wiki</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Details of the transaction, and any error conditions, are written to
+log files. This is discussed in greater detail below in the <a href="#logs">Logs Files and Troubleshooting</a> section.</p>
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="dns" id="dns">Hostnames and DNS</a></h2>
+
+
+<p>In order to connect to a server, the client will first have to resolve
+the servername to an IP address - the location on the Internet where the
+server resides. Thus, in order for your web server to be reachable, it
+is necessary that the servername be in DNS.</p>
+
+<p>More than one hostname may point to the same IP address, and more
+than one IP address can be attached to the same physical server. Thus, you
+can run more than one web site on the same physical server, using a
+feature called <a href="vhosts/">virtual hosts</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you don't know how to do this, you'll need to contact your network
+administrator, or Internet service provider, to perform this step for
+you.</p>
+
+<p>If you are testing a server that is not Internet-accessible, you
+can put host names in your hosts file in order to do local resolution.
+For example, you might want to put a record in your hosts file to map a
+request for <code>www.example.com</code> to your local system, for
+testing purposes. This entry would look like:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><p><code>
+127.0.0.1 www.example.com
+</code></p></div>
+
+<p>A hosts file will probably be located at <code>/etc/hosts</code> or
+<code>C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts</code>.</p>
+
+<p>You can read more about the hosts file at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)</a>, and
+more about DNS at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System</a>.</p>
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="configuration" id="configuration">Configuration Files and Directives</a></h2>
+
+
+<p>The Apache HTTP Server is configured via simple text files.
+These files may be located any of a variety of places, depending on how
+exactly you installed the server. Common locations for these files may
+be found <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DistrosDefaultLayout">in
+the httpd wiki</a>. If you installed httpd from source, the default
+location of the configuration files is
+<code>/usr/local/apache2/conf</code>. The default configuration file is
+usually called <code>httpd.conf</code>. This, too, can vary in
+third-party distributions of the server.</p>
+
+<p>The configuration is frequently broken into multiple smaller files,
+for ease of management. These files are loaded via the <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#include">Include</a></code> directive. The names or locations of
+these sub-files are not magical, and may vary greatly from one
+installation to another. Arrange and subdivide these files as
+makes the most sense to <strong>you</strong>. If the file arrangement
+you have by default doesn't make sense to you, feel free to rerrange it.</p>
+
+<p>The server is configured by placing <a href="mod/quickreference.html">configuration directives</a> in these
+configuration files. A directive is a keyword followed by one or more
+arguments that set its value.</p>
+
+<p>The question of "<em>Where should I put that
+directive?</em>" is generally answered by considering where you want a
+directive to be effective. If it is a global setting, it should appear
+in the configuration file, outside of any <code class="directive"><Directory></code>, <code class="directive"><Location></code>, <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code>, or other section. If it is to
+apply only to a particular directory, then it should go inside a
+<code class="directive"><Directory></code> section referring to
+that directory, and so on. See the <a href="sections.html">Configuration
+Sections</a> document for further discussion of these sections.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the main configuration files, certain directives may go in
+<code>.htaccess</code> files located in the content directories.
+<code>.htaccess</code> files are primarily for people who do not have
+access to the main server configuration file(s). You can read more about
+<code>.htaccess</code> files in the <a href="howto/htaccess.html"><code>.htaccess</code> howto</a>.</p>
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="content" id="content">Web Site Content</a></h2>
+
+
+<p>Web site content can take many different forms, but may be broadly
+divided into static and dynamic content.</p>
+
+<p>Static content is things like HTML files, image files, CSS files,
+and other files that reside in the filesystem. The <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> directive specifies where in your
+filesystem you should place these files. This directive is either set
+globally, or per virual host. Look in your configuration file(s) to
+determine how this is set for your server.</p>
+
+<p>Typically, a document called <code>index.html</code> will be served
+when a directory is requested without a file name being specified. For
+example, if <code>DocumentRoot</code> is set to
+<code>/var/www/html</code> and a request is made for
+<code>http://www.example.com/work/</code>, the file
+<code>/var/www/html/work/index.html</code> will be served to the
+client.</p>
+
+<p>Dynamic content is anything that is generated at request
+time, and may change from one request to another. There are numerous
+ways that dynamic content may be generated. Various <a href="handler.html">handlers</a> are available to generate content. <a href="howto/cgi.html">CGI programs</a> may be written to generate
+content for your site.</p>
+
+<p>Third-party modules like mod_php may be used to write code that does a
+variety of things. Many third-party applications, written using a
+variety of languages and tools, are available for download and
+installation on your Apache HTTP Server. Support of these third-party
+things is beyond the scope of this documentation, and you should find
+their documentation or other support forums to answer your questions
+about them.</p>
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="logs" id="logs">Log Files and Troubleshooting</a></h2>
+
+<p>As an Apache HTTP Server administrator, your most valuable asset is
+the log files, and, in particular, the error log. Troubleshooting any
+problem without the error log is like driving with your eyes closed.</p>
+
+<p>The location of the error log is defined by the <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#errorlog">ErrorLog</a></code> directive, which may be set globally,
+or per virtual host. Entries in the error log tell you what went wrong,
+and when. They often also tell you how to fix it. Each error log message
+contains a error code, which you can search for online for even more
+detailed descriptions of how to address the problem. You can also
+configure your error log to contain a log ID which you can then
+correlate to an access log entry, so that you can determine what request
+caused the error condition.</p>
+
+<p>You can read more about logging in the <a href="logs.html">logs
+documentation</a>.</p>
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="other" id="other">What Else Do I Need To Know?</a></h2>
+
+<p>This document covers only the bare basics. We hope that this gets you
+started, but there are many other things that you might need to know.
+Here's a partial list of what you might be looking for:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="howto/auth.html">Authentication and Authorization (password protecting resources)</a></li>
+<li><a href="howto/access.html">Access Control</a></li>
+<li><a href="ssl/ssl_howto.html">Setting up SSL</a></li>
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