CITA 310 Lab
Lab: Supplemental questions for Apache and virtual hosts.
Instructions: Team assignment: Submit your answers to the questions below to the
R: drive. This will be graded separately from the Apache lab.
Questions for Lab
Use configuration file and online search to provide short answers to these questions:
1. Where is the apache configuration file stored and what is its name?
2. Why is it important to backup up the apache configuration file?
3. What is ServerRoot and where is it?
4. What is a “persistent” connection?
5. How are multiple apache servers managed?
6. What is the default “port” that apache listens to?
7. What are apache modules, how are they included with the server?
8. What is the default server called?
9. Explain what the user named apache is.
10. How is dns used with apache?
11. What is the DocumentRoot and where is it?
12. What does the permission setting 755 mean?
13. What is the purpose of DirectoryIndex?
14. What are mime types?
15. What does .htaccess do?
16. What is an error log and what does it tell us?
17. How can error logs be customized?
18. How are muliple languages (languages that people speak and read) managed?
19. How is a server script recognized by apache and the scripting engine invoked?
20. What does a redirect do?
21. What does FancyIndexing do?
22. How can Directives be commented out?
23. How can browser “applications” be added to apache?
24. How can custom error messages be defined?
25. What is a server error message ?
26. How is a web browser detected by apache?
27. What is a proxy server ?
28. How does the use of ssl impact the use of ports with apache?
29. How could you track httpd processes on the server ?
30. Where are configuration files stored and how are they made available to apache?
