title: Apache Server 2.0: A Beginner's Guide
author: Kate Wrightson
description: Learn to install and run Apache Server 2.0 -- even for the first time
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  Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Preface
  
  
  Who Wrote Apache, and Why?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Demonstration Code
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Conventions Used in This Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Organization of This Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1. Getting Started
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.1. What Does a Web Server Do?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.2. How Apache Works
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.3. Apache and Networking
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.4. How HTTP Clients Work
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.5. What Happens at the Server End?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.6. Planning the Apache Installation
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.7. Windows?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.8. Which Apache?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.9. Installing Apache
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.10. Building Apache 1.3.X Under Unix
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.11. New Features in Apache v2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.12. Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 1.13. Apache Under Windows
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 2. Configuring Apache: The First Steps
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 2.1. What's Behind an Apache Web Site?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Section 2.2. site.to