Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C shows how to extend the capabilities of the Apache web server. It explains the design of Apache, mod_perl, and the Apache API, then demonstrates how to use them for:
Rewriting CGI scripts as Apache modules to vastly improve performance
Server-side filtering of HTML documents to embed special markup or code (much like SSI)
Enhancing server log functionality
Converting file formats on the fly
Implementing dynamic navigation bars
Incorporating database access into CGI scripts
Customizing access control and authorization to block robots or to use an external database for passwords
Lincoln Stein is the successful author of How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide web Site and the developer of the widely used Perl CGI.pm module. Doug MacEachern is a consultant and the creator of the innovative mod_perl Apache module.
