Apache

Description

Installs the Apache webserver

Components

  • Apache

    • mod_cgi

    • mod_dav

    • mod_php

    • mod_proxy

    • mod_rewrite

    • …

Apache

Note

The Apache web server is set up to listen on loopback and SRV interfaces only and is not designed to run as the frontend webserver. You will need to setup Web gateway to make the LAMP stack public available.

Configuration

We provide a basic Apache configuration including a setup for AWstats, but do not define any virtual hosts. Service users may create individual config files in /etc/apache2/local that will be included in Apache’s global config context.

Interaction

To activate updated Apache configurations without downtime service users may restart apache2 gracefully. There is one caveat though. If the config file is incorrect apache2 may stop silently, which is why you should check the correctness before.

# check config
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 configtest
# restart gracefully
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 graceful

If you don’t mind the downtime, service users may invoke

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Logging

If not re-defined in a custom configuration log files can be found in /var/log/apache2. The log files are readable by the service users as well as by human users.

Monitoring

  • By default, the presence of Apache processes is checked.

  • To get checks for individual web pages (presence, specific content, response time), please notify the support.