We host a lot of web sites. In the past, I've tried to put as much config info in the apache config files (often broken up into individual .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf.d in order to keep things ...

Happily, Apache eventually introduced the Include directive, which allowed the main Apache config file to link in other config files—and, best of all, directories that could be expected to be ...

Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. The main configuration file is usually called httpd.conf. The location of this file is set at compile-time, but may be ...

You can accomplish this by using the Combined Log Format rather than the default Common Log Format. In your Apache configuration files, search for the CustomLog keyword, and modify it to look like ...

Apache, Subversion, and WebSVN fit together neatly to allow you to look at repositories, compare files, check them out, and work on them, then view afterward who has done what and why.

This is easy to fix, though, if you are comfortable with making minor modifications to the Apache configuration file.

Your Apache site no longer lists directories. This is a very simple step you can take to secure your Apache web server and prevent people from seeing directories and files they shouldn’t see.