Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (MPE/iX 6.5)

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HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server
Feature Set
Painless Migration of Existing Apache Content
Your existing non-secure Apache content can be migrated without change to HP WebWise
MPE/iX Secure Web Server and the SSL/TLS protocols. This includes CGI applications,
which will have access to a wide variety of new security-related environment variables
under HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server that will permit granular, custom security
checking.
New Functionality
HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server is based on Apache 1.3.9 and introduces the
following new Apache functionality that has either been added to Apache since 1.3.4 or
ported to MPE/iX for the first time:
mod_digest MD5 digest-based user authentication described in
RFC2617.
mod_proxy Ftp and http proxies and caching. Support for forwarding
to remote proxies, cache size, and cache expiration
configuration.
mod_rewrite Powerful regexp-based matching rules for rewriting an
incoming browser URL request to a different server URL
or server file. Useful in large, dynamic environments
where content structure changes frequently. For advanced
users only.
mod_so Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs). Allows add-on Apache
modules to be built in external NMXLs and loaded at HP
WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server startup time.
mod_vhost_alias Allows specification of flexible configuration directory
names that simplify hosting large numbers of virtual web
servers on the same machine.
Bundled Modules
The following modules are statically linked into HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server
(this list can be viewed by running HTTPDS with the -l option: /APACHE/SECURE/HTTPDS
-l):
• mod_access
• mod_actions
• mod_alias
• mod_asis
• mod_auth
• mod_auth_anon
• mod_autoindex
• mod_cern_meta