Chapter 5: Advanced Topics

This chapter discusses some of the more advanced ways you can use your Apache web server. Topics covered include performance tuning, interacting with databases, and creating your own modules.

• Performance Tuning
  • mod_status
  • vmstat
  • Active Servers
  • Trimming httpd
  • .htaccess files
  • Logging
• Web databases
  • MySQL
  • Server Configuration
  • Database access via basic CGI
  • Database access via embedded CGI Interpreter
  • Database access via commercial product
• Load Balancing
  • Round Robin DNS
  • mod_rewrite
• Module Creation
  • The Apache API
  • Performance Considerations

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