# Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/desc/apache2_modules.desc,v 1.3 2010/07/11 08:22:39 lxnay Exp $ # This file contains descriptions of APACHE2_MODULES USE_EXPAND flags. # Keep it sorted. actions - Provides for executing CGI scripts based on media type or request method alias - Provides for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree and for URL redirection asis - Sends files that contain their own HTTP headers auth_basic - Basic authentication auth_digest - User authentication using MD5 Digest Authentication authn_alias - Provides the ability to create extended authentication providers based on actual providers authn_anon - Allows "anonymous" user access to authenticated areas authn_dbd - User authentication using an SQL database authn_dbm - User authentication using DBM files authn_default - Authentication fallback module authn_file - User authentication using text files authz_dbm - Group authorization using DBM files authz_default - Authorization fallback module authz_groupfile - Group authorization using plaintext files authz_host - Group authorizations based on host (name or IP address) authz_owner - Authorization based on file ownership authz_user - User Authorization autoindex - Generates directory indexes, automatically, similar to the Unix ls command cache - Content cache keyed to URIs cern_meta - CERN httpd metafile semantics charset_lite - Specify character set translation or recoding cgi - Enable CGI module (used by non-multithreaded MPMs, for eg. prefork) cgid - Enable CGI module (used by multithreaded MPMs, for eg. worker) dav - Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) functionality dav_fs - filesystem provider for mod_dav dav_lock - generic locking module for mod_dav dbd - Manages SQL database connections deflate - Compress content before it is delivered to the client dir - Provides for "trailing slash" redirects and serving directory index files disk_cache - Content cache storage manager keyed to URIs dumpio - Dumps all I/O to error log as desired env - Modifies the environment which is passed to CGI scripts and SSI pages expires - Generation of Expires and Cache-Control HTTP headers according to user-specified criteria ext_filter - Pass the response body through an external program before delivery to the client file_cache - Caches a static list of files in memory filter - Context-sensitive smart filter configuration module headers - Customization of HTTP request and response headers ident - RFC 1413 ident lookups imagemap - Server-side imagemap processing include - Server-parsed html documents (Server Side Includes) info - Provides a comprehensive overview of the server configuration log_config - Logging of the requests made to the server log_forensic - Forensic Logging of the requests made to the server logio - Logging of input and output bytes per request mem_cache - Content cache keyed to URIs mime - Associates the requested filename's extensions with the file's behavior (handlers and filters) and content (mime-type, language, character set and encoding) mime_magic - Determines the MIME type of a file by looking at a few bytes of its contents negotiation - Provides for content negotiation proxy - HTTP/1.1 proxy/gateway server proxy_ajp - AJP support module for mod_proxy proxy_balancer - mod_proxy extension for load balancing proxy_connect - mod_proxy extension for CONNECT request handling proxy_ftp - FTP support module for mod_proxy proxy_http - HTTP support module for mod_proxy rewrite - Provides a rule-based rewriting engine to rewrite requested URLs on the fly setenvif - Allows the setting of environment variables based on characteristics of the request speling - Attempts to correct mistaken URLs that users might have entered by ignoring capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling status - Provides information on server activity and performance substitute - Perform search and replace operations on response bodies unique_id - Provides an environment variable with a unique identifier for each request userdir - User-specific directories usertrack - Clickstream logging of user activity on a site version - Version dependent configuration vhost_alias - Provides for dynamically configured mass virtual hosting