PHHTTPD HTTP Accelerator HOWTO

Zach Brown

David C. Merrill

2001-04-24

Revision History
Revision 1.1 2001-04-24 Revised by: DCM
Converted to DocBook 4.1 article, with some minor language cleanup. Copyright passed from Zach Brown to David C. Merrill.
Revision 1.0 2000 Revised by: ZB
Initial release.

This document explains the use of the phhttpd http server accelerator under Linux.

As of the later 2.3 kernels, and offically in 2.4 and later, the TUX http accelerator is included in the standard Linux kernel tree. Therefore, this document should be considered obsolete for most users.


Table of Contents
1. Copyright and License
2. Introduction
2.1. Architectural Overview
2.2. Supported Systems
3. Configuration File
3.1. Overview
3.2. Global Config Section
3.3. Virtual Servers
4. Logging
4.1. Overview
4.2. Configuration
4.3. Format and Strange Behaviour
5. Run Time Facilities
5.1. Overview
5.2. Log Rotating
5.3. Status Reporting