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Which modules are loaded in my Apache httpd

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-02-23 22:12:44 - Graham Ellis

Modules for use in httpd can be loaded statically or dynamicaly. A couple of core modules are built in by default if you build your own server, and you can choose others too using --enable options to the ./configure command. We do this on our Linux Web Server and Deploying httpd and Tomcat courses with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite.

The -l option to the httpd command tells you which modules you have statically loaded:

[root@p15161732 root]# httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
core.c
prefork.c
http_core.c
mod_so.c
[root@p15161732 root]#


Additional modules are loaded dynamically as directed in your httpd.conf file and any further files that it includes, via directives such as

LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so
LoadModule auth_anon_module modules/mod_auth_anon.so
LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule imap_module modules/mod_imap.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so
LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so
LoadModule frontpage_module modules/mod_frontpage.so
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so