Logs in Apache are more configurable than most people realize. Not only can you organize the fields in your logs, but you can also create formats and layouts. Access logs can be split and divided up to make them easier to process by reporting spec…

You’d be amazed at how much information your machine, operating systems, and applications generate during their normal course of operation. One of my relatively quiet Unix servers, for example, generates about 2 MB of syslog information every week…

You’ve downloaded and configured your Apache server and are ready to move on to the next project. Can it really be left to fend for itself in a darkened room? Yes. To some degree, anyway. With the exception of configuration testing, once Apache is…

The previous Apache-focused tutorial published on ServerWatch discussed the benefits of a proxy server for the network, and how it can speed up access, reduce bandwidth requirements, and perform basic information filtering tasks. This type of prox…

One of the problems with Windows XP is that when working with non-Windows servers and services that it supplies the wrong login authentication information. When you are prompted to login to a system like WebDAV, Windows XP wants to send DOMAINUse…

Setting up a proxy server can be an effective way of speeding up your web acess and simultaenously poviding you with a framework for filtering content and restricting access to websites and the Internet. For full details of how to set up Apache 2….

For some time, Apache and Microsoft have commanded the lion’s share of the Web server market. While Apache is the clear-cut winner in the Netcraft and Security Space monthly surveys, Internet Information Server dominates among Fortune 1000 enterpr…

HTTPD-Test is a collection of tools that provide ways of testing HTTP servers in general. The previously covered Flood (see Staying Out of Deep Water: Performance Testing Using HTTPD-Test’s Flood), is one such tool. As the name implies, Flood enab…

Once you’ve set up your server and users are accessing your Web site, the last thing you want to hear about are performance problems with the site. You can test the system manually, but there are limitations to manual-based testing. One major down…

If you write JavaServer Pages or use Servlets to provide the functionality of your Web site, you’re probably already aware of Tomcat. Tomcat is the Apache Foundation’s reference implementation of the JavaServer Pages and Servlet technologies. Tomc…