Configuration: Linux Tuning LAMP

Listing 1. Configuration of the prefork MPM

StartServers       50
MinSpareServers   15
MaxSpareServers   30
MaxClients       225
MaxRequestsPerChild  4000

Listing 2. A Directory container being applied to the root directory

<Directory />
    AllowOverride None
    Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

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Listing 3. Restricting FollowSymLinks to a user’s directory

<Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
   Options -FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

Listing 4. Moving .htaccess configuration into httpd.conf

<Directory /home/user/public_html/project/>
  AuthUserFile /home/user/.htpasswd
  AuthName "uber secret project"
  AuthType basic
  Require valid-user
</Directory>

Listing 5. Scoping .htaccess checking

<Directory />
  AllowOverrides None
</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
  AllowOverrides AuthConfig
</Directory>

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