Index

A

ab. See Apache Benchmark

ACCEPT rule, 286, 473

access control forms for

iptables, 272, 274

TCP wrappers, 272, 273

access control list. See ACL

access control rules

ACCEPT, 285

FORWARD, 286

INPUT, 286

REJECT, 285, 286

access control, trusted, 270

access controlling in Apache

.htaccess file, use of, 440, 441

.htpasswd file, use of, 441

htpasswd command, use of, 441

password protection, enabling of, 441

ACL (access control list)

for Apache, 433

use of, 287, 306

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), 232, 235

acpid daemon, 235

ADS (Active Directory Service) mode, 398

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. See Amanda

Advanced Power Management. See APM

allow ssh rule, 307

AllowOverride directive, 477

alternatives command, 488

alternatives system

defined, 486

GUI configuration tools, 491

MTA and, 486

MTAs switching process, 488, 489

rebooting aspects, 490

runlevel changes, 489

runlevels changes, 490

using PostFix MTA, 488, 490

using Sendmail MTA, 489

Amanda

backup aspects, 120

client/server, 120, 136

features, 120

overview of, 120

Anaconda

Fedora Core installer, 51, 52

Red Hat installation program, 16

Apache 1.3, 427. See also Apache 2.0

Apache 1.x to 2.0, migrating from

DirectoryIndex directive defaults, 439

RPM base package name, 439

security features, 439

VirtualHost blocks, copying, 439

Apache 1.x versions, 428

Apache 2.0

Apache 1.x, migration from, 439

API, 428

autoconf build system, 428

configuration files, 429

filtering, 429

for non-UNIX platforms, 428

IPv6 support, 428

libtool build system, 428

multilanguage error responses, 429

multiprotocol support, 428

Regular Expression Library, 429

security features, 439

simplified configuration, 429

UNIX threading, 427

Apache 2.0 tips and tricks

configuration file testing, 440

restarting versus reloading, 442

user access, controlling, 440

virtual host settings, 443

Apache Benchmark, 450, 452

Apache commands, 437

Apache compile-time options

httpd binary, use of, 443

httpd -l flag, use of, 443

httpd -V flag, use of, 443

MPM (multiprocessing module support), 444

suexec binary package, 444

Apache configuration files

/etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory, 430

httpd.conf file, 430

Apache configuring

configuration files, use of, 430

httpd.conf files, use of, 431

log files, 430

main server, 432

redhat-config-httpd tool, 437

Apache daemon, 442

Apache directories

/home/httpd/, 431

/var/www/cgi-bin/, 431

/var/www/html/, 431

subdirectories, 430

Apache for higher loads

benchmarking, 450

MaxClients directive, use of, 448

server status for performance tracking, using, 452

Apache HTTP server, 444

Apache log files

/var/log/httpd/access_log, 430

/var/log/httpd/error_log, 431

/var/log/messages, 431

apache migrations, 135. See also server migrations

Apache on Fedora Core, 429

Apache resources, 453

Apache RPM base package name

for Apache 1.x systems, 439

for Apache 2.x systems, 439

Apache server configuration file, 431

Apache server loads and hardware requirements

ATA drives, 449

ATA RAID cards, 450

dynamic content operations, 449

RAM, 449

SCSI hardware, 449

SCSI/RAID systems, 450

Apache subdirectories for SSL transactions management

ssl.crt, 430

ssl.csr, 430

ssl.key, 430

Apache troubleshooting

DNS problems, 453

of access problems, 453

of permissions errors, 452

run time error generation, 453

virtual site, non-working of, 453

Apache Web directory permissions

chgrp solution, 445

for defining new virtual hosts, 444

relaxed permissions, 446

security through obscurity method, 447

user private groups, 447

API for Apache modules, 428

APM (advanced power management)

configuring, 233

in Fedora Core, 233

software, 232

apm command, 234

apmscript file events handling

change battery, 234

change power, 234

resume, 234

start, 234

stop, 234

suspend, 234

apt package manager, 14

apt-cache tool, 550

apt-rpm (apt-get) for Fedora upgrading, 51, 56

archiving file system/directory, 119

ash shell, 143

AT commands, 350, 353

ATA RAID cards for Apache, 450

ATA versus SCSI, 449

ATA/UDMA-based system for Apache, 450

ATAPI tape drives for backup, 110

ATI chipsets, 188

authentication

key-based, 456, 469

SSH-key based, 80

via SMTP-Auth, 503

authentication packets, 286

authoritative

name servers, 322

TTL values, 324

automated update. See also manual update; source update

up2date, using, 40

yum, using, 43

automatically mounted file systems, 214

autorefresh setting, 452

Autoyast, 541

axfr option, 331