Adding Modules - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 Reference Manual

154 Chapter 10. Apache HTTP Server
mod_dav_fs.so
mod_vhost_alias.so
mod_negotiation.so
mod_dir.so
mod_imap.so
mod_actions.so
mod_speling.so
mod_userdir.so
mod_alias.so
mod_rewrite.so
mod_proxy.so
mod_proxy_ftp.so
mod_proxy_http.so
mod_proxy_connect.so
mod_cache.so
mod_disk_cache.so
mod_file_cache.so
mod_mem_cache.so
mod_cgi.so
Additionally, the following modules are available by installing additional packages:
mod_auth_mysql
mod_auth_pgsql
mod_perl
mod_python
mod_ssl
php

10.7. Adding Modules

The Apache HTTP Server supports Dynamically Shared Objects (DSOs) or modules, which can easily
be loaded at runtime as necessary.
The Apache Project provides complete DSO Documentation at online http://httpd.apache.org/docs-
2.0/dso.html. Or, if the package is installed, documentation about DSOs can be found
http-manual
online at http://localhost/manual/mod/.
For the Apache HTTP Server to use a DSO, it must be specified in a directive within
LoadModule
; if the module is provided by a separate package, the line must
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
appear within the modules configuration file in the directory. Refer to Section
/etc/httpd/conf.d/
10.5.12 for more about the directive.
LoadModule LoadModule
If adding or deleting modules from , Apache HTTP Server must be reloaded or restarted,
http.conf
as covered in Section 10.4 Starting and Stopping .
httpd
If creating a new module, first install the package as it contains the include files, the
httpd-devel
header files, as well as the APache eXtenSion ( ) application, which uses the include
/usr/sbin/apxs
files and the header files to compile DSOs.
After writing a module, use to compile the module sources outside the Apache
/usr/sbin/apxs
source tree. For more information about using the command, refer to the the
/usr/sbin/apxs
Apache documentation online at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/dso.html and the man page.
apxs
Once compiled, put the module in the directory. Then add a
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/
line to the , using the following structure:
LoadModule httpd.conf
LoadModule module-name
path/to/module.so