> Hello everybody Hey! > what does it mean : a spare server ? These are the number of idle child processes to be allowed open before the server kills those processes. It is recommended not to change those variables unless you have a heavily used site. > what's the difference between Listen 80 and Port 80 ? The Listen directive allows you to specify a particular ip address for the server to listen on. By default, it will listen on all interfaces on your server so your public interface, local interface, and other interfaces have access to the server. For example, http://127.0.0.1 or http://192.168.0.1 (If you have private LANS behind the server) will give you access to the webserver. You can use the Listen directive to only allow conections from the public ip address or just the local inteface. You can also use it to specify multiple ports to listen on the standard is port 80 but you can also have it listen on port 8080 or 8000 etc. Listen 80 Listen 8000 Listen 127.0.0.1 Listen 192.168.0.1:80 The Port directive assigns the port number if the Listen directive is not set. Hope this helps some. -- duane -- GnuPG Public Key: http://sukkha.homeip.net/pgp.html -- Fun reading: 8-) http://linuxtoday.com/search.php3?author=Duane:Dunston ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
