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Thu, 29 Jun 2006

Rich Bowen, after giving an talk on mod_rewrite earlier today, had the following 10 things your webserver can do that you might not yet know about. It should be noted that Rich is a mathematician, hence his excellent counting abilities.

1. Gives a directory listing, which you can make pretty with an Index Stylesheet, including alternating the colours for odd and even lines.
2. Cache root and cache enable - allows you to cache the dynamic content that doesn't change often.
3. Compress deflate - compress your data as it's served.
4. Define a filter to change the font (or whatever) in your pages - if you're too lazy to do it otherwise.
5. Syslog directive - log to a syslog server.
6. Check spelling on - correct spellings of people's URLs.
7. Authenticate against your Microsoft Directory Server
8. mod_dav allows you to mount your webserver filesystem from your Mac, etc. and edit your website as a local filesystem.
9. mod_dumpio - allows you to dump everything coming into and going out from your webserver. Great for truobleshooting.
10. mod_log_forensic - less verbose.
11. mod_proxybalancer - allows you to do load balancing cheaply.
12. mod_logio - log the sizes of documents and headers transferred.
13. mod_rewrite - convert a pretty looking URL into an ugly looking URL that your app can understand.
14. Yes, your webserver does come with a pony. (well, actually someone is allegedly writing mod_pony, but you're just going to have to wait for it.)

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