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Authentication and Authorization

Authentication is any process by which you verify that + someone is who they claim they are. Authorization is any + process by which someone is allowed to be where they want to + go, or to have information that they want to have.

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See: Authentication, Authorization

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Access Control

Access control refers to the process of restricting, or + granting access to a resource based on arbitrary criteria. There + are a variety of different ways that this can be + accomplished.

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See: Access Control

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Dynamic Content with CGI

The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web + server to interact with external content-generating programs, + which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It + is a simple way to put dynamic content on + your web site. This document will be an introduction to setting + up CGI on your Apache web server, and getting started writing + CGI programs.

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See: CGI: Dynamic Content

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.htaccess files

.htaccess files provide a way to make configuration + changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more + configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, + and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof.

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See: .htaccess files

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HTTP/2 with httpd

HTTP/2 is the evolution of the world's most successful application layer protocol, HTTP. + It focuses on making more efficient use of network resources without changing the semantics of HTTP. + This guide explains how HTTP/2 is implemented in httpd, showing basic configurations tips and + best practices. +

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See: HTTP/2 guide

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Introduction to Server Side Includes

SSI (Server Side Includes) are directives that are placed in + HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are + being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to + an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page + via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology.

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See: Server Side Includes (SSI)

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Per-user web directories

On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a + web site in their home directory using the UserDir directive. Visitors + to a URL http://example.com/~username/ will get content + out of the home directory of the user "username", out of + the subdirectory specified by the UserDir directive.

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See: User web directories (public_html)

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Reverse Proxy guide

Apache httpd has extensive capabilities as a reverse proxy server using the + ProxyPass directive as well as + BalancerMember to create sophisticated + reverse proxying implementations which provide for high-availability, load + balancing and failover, cloud-based clustering and dynamic on-the-fly reconfiguration.

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See: Reverse proxy guide

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Rewriting URLs with mod_rewrite: +
Rewriting URLs with (and without) + mod_rewrite tends to be one of the most + frequently asked topics on our mailing lists and IRC channels. + We have devoted and entire section of our + documentation to howtos and recipes around this topic.
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