Ken Coar

The Apache Web server, like most if not all of the others in common use today, lets you execute arbitrarily complex operations through the use of CGI

Unlike your system's login system, which will probably kick you out, disconnect you, lock your account, or do something equally extroverted and paranoid

The htpasswd application is used to create and maintain text-based authentication databases for use with the mod_auth module. It gets the username and

The htdigest and dbmmanage tools, also in the /usr/local/web/apache/bin/ directory, are similar to the htpasswd application. htdigest allows you to

mod_auth This is the basis for most Apache security modules; it uses ordinary text files for the authentication database. Entries are of the form

By default, following an Apache installation the main page in your DocumentRoot directory will say something reassuring -- to you -- about the success of

Beyond that you're on your own, as building Apache on Windows is not exactly a 'getting started' topic! You can find more (possibly outdated) information

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