Servers Galore

In this chapter we shall go into some detail on the configuration of a few of the most popular World Wide Web servers - NCSA's HTTPD, CERN's HTTPD and MacHTTP. As new releases of these servers become available, this information given here will become incomplete, but server writers attempt to maintain compatibility with previous versions. You should use this chapter as a guide as to the functionality available, but also check the latest online data when installing a server. A list of relevant URLs is given in appendix .

• Available Servers
• MacHTTP
  • MacHTTP 1.3
  • Configuration
    • Resticting Access to a MacHTTP Server
    • Specifying the MIME Content Type with MacHTTP
• NCSA's HTTPD Server
  • HTTPD V1.3
  • Configuration of HTTPD
  • Setting the Server Resource Map - srm.conf
  • The Server Configuration File - httpd.conf
  • The Access Configuration File - access.conf
    • Restricting Users
    • More detailed access control
    • Where to configure access control
• CERN HTTPD
  • Version 3.0
  • CERN HTTPD Configuration
  • Enabling Security on the CERN server
    • Restricting hosts
    • Restricting Users
    • Protecting Access to Individual Files using Access Control Lists
  • Configuring CERN HTTPD as a Caching Proxy
• Imagemap Configuration
  • Imagemaps using MacHTTP - the DIY approach
  • NCSA HTTPD's Imagemap Command
  • CERN HTTPD's Htimage Command
  • Map Editors
• Form Processing
  • The DIY Approach
  • The cgiparse approach on the CERN server
  • Using Tokenize on MacHTTP
• Server Performance