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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 370 be to your responsibility to modify, adjust for your needs and place the files related to Apache software to their appropriated places on your server machine, like show bellow. The server configuration files archive to download is located at the following Internet address: http://pages.infinit.net/lotus1/opendocs/floppy.tgz · To run Apache server, the following files are require and must be create or copied to their appropriated directories on your server. Copy the httpd.conf file to the “/etc/httpd/conf/” directory. Copy the apache file to the “/etc/logrotate.d/” directory. Copy the httpd script file to the “/etc/rc.d/init.d/” directory. You can obtain configuration files listed bellow on our floppy.tgz archive. Copy the following files from the decompressed floppy.tgz archive to their appropriated places or copy and paste them directly from this book to the concerned file. Configuration of the “/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf” file The “httpd.conf” file is the main configuration file for the Apache web server. A lot options exist and it’s important to read the documentation that come with Apache for more information of different setting and parameters. The following configuration example is a minimal working configuration file for Apache with SSL support. Also it’s important to note that we comment in this Apache configuration only parameters that relate to security and optimization and let all the others to your own research and knowledge. Edit the httpd.conf file (vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and add: ### Section 1: Global Environment # ServerType standalone ServerRoot "/etc/httpd" PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid ResourceConfig /dev/null AccessConfig /dev/null Timeout 300 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 0 KeepAliveTimeout 15 MinSpareServers 16 MaxSpareServers 64 StartServers 16 MaxClients 512 MaxRequestsPerChild 100000 ### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration # Port 80 <IfDefine SSL> Listen 80 Listen 443 </IfDefine> User www Group www ServerAdmin admin@openarch.com ServerName www.openarch.com DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/ona"