How to optimize Apache 2.2 under FreeBSD
Introduction
The goal of this guide
This guide is meant to give you a better understanding of how the Apache HTTP server works. It covers most of the modules and configuration directive that affects performance. However, it does not cover how to optimize third-party software such as database servers and/or PHP/CGI applications, as they planned to be covered in future guides.
Audience
The guide is aimed for new, as well as experienced Linux/UNIX users. It is assumed the reader is using a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE or later system…
Apache 2.2.11 has been released
The Apache HTTP Server project proudly announces that version 2.2.11 has been released. As this is mainly a bugfix release, it has a few new features/improvements worth looking into. For example, the cache modules has undergone a lot of changes, the event MPM uses a separate thread for accepting new connections and handling Keep-Alive requests, mod_filter has been…
