Key Factors in Apache Administration

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Key Factors in Apache Administration
The book covers two of the most often discussed functions within Apache, mod_rewrite and logging, at great length, and offers insightful methods by which both can be used efficiently for security. In particular, the complete plan for deploying an independent Web log server using encryption for data transfer is included in the book.

Mobily explains, "Logging is absolutely critical, and should be done on a remote server dedicated to logging. The log files should be transmitted on a TCP connection (rather than UDP), and should be encrypted to prevent people from tampering with their contents."

The chapter on logging concentrates exclusively on how to achieve this, and Mobily believes his solution is really quite inventive.

"Maybe logging is not a security risk; rather, not having proper logging is an enormous security hazard," he said.