The following resources are useful for learning more about Apache:

  • Apache Software Foundation home: http://www.apache.org/

  • Apache httpd server: http://httpd.apache.org/

  • Apache mailing lists: http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html contains a comprehensive list of all Apache projects' mailing lists

  • Apache quick reference card: http://www.refcards.com/ (other reference cards are also available from this link)

  • The Apache FAQ: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html

  • Apache server documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ for 1.3.xx, http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ for 2.0

  • Apache handlers in C: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/handler.html

  • mod_rewrite Guide: http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/

  • Security

    • "Security and Apache: An Essential Primer," by Ken Coar: http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1527/

    • "Using Apache with Suexec on Linux," by Ken Coar: http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1445/

  • The Unix chroot jail facility

    • "How to 'chroot' an Apache tree with Linux and Solaris": http://penguin.epfl.ch/chroot.html

    • "Installing and Securing the Apache Webserver with SSL," by Dale Coddington: http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1356/

    • "How to break out of a chroot( ) jail": http://www.bpfh.net/simes/computing/chroot-break.html

  • The FreeBSD jail facility:

    • Jails: Confining the omnipotent root," by Paul-Henning Kamp and Robert N. M. Watson: http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html

    • Chapter 12 of FreeBSD Developers' Handbook, by Evan Sarmiento: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/jail.html

  • mod_throttle_access: http://www.fremen.org/apache/

  • Books:

    • How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site: The Guide for Information Providers, Second Edition, by Lincoln Stein (Addison Wesley)

    • Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, by Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie (O'Reilly)

    • Apache Server for Dummies, by Ken Coar (IDE)