Directives no longer supported on HTTP Server

The AddModule directive allows the server to activate specific modules in the server after a ClearModuleList has been performed. The server comes with a pre-loaded list of active modules. Only those modules are valid. A list of valid modules can be obtained using the '-l' option on the command line. The example above would activate the module mod_cgi. If this module is already active then the directive will be ignored.

Parameter: module

• Module is any valid module in the pre-loaded list that came with the HTTP Server.

See also ClearModuleList.

The ClearModuleList directive will clear the built-in list of active modules provided by the server. To reactivate this module list use the AddModule directive.

The IconPath directive to specify URL information to be added at the beginning of each icon-URL specified on the following directives:

• AddIcon
• AddIconByType
• AddIconByEncoding
• DefaultIcon

The value that you specify on this directive is added to the icon-URL value on each of the other directives to form the full request URL for each icon. The following path and directory is the default location for icons:

/QIBM/ProdData/HTTPA/icons

Special Usage Considerations:

• You must enable your server for serving the icons from the default location by adding the following statement to your configuration:

  Alias /icons /QIBM/ProdData/HTTPA/icons

• You must use this directive in your configuration before any of the other icon directives that are to use the path (DefaultIcon, AddIcon, AddIconByType, and AddIconByEncoding).

For example, a configuration containing:

Alias /icons/small /QIBM/ProdData/HTTPA/icons/small
IconPath /icons/small/
AddIcon blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

This causes the server to generate a request for the directory list icon as /icons/small/blank.gif. The server uses the alias directive to resolve the request to the proper file. This is different from Apache than on other platforms.

On another platform you would use:

Alias /icons /full/icon/path
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

IconPath is an IBM i specific directive for Apache; therefore, precautions must be taken if the Apache configuration file is modified manually. On the IBM i server, you would use:

Alias /icons /QIBM/ProdData/HTTPA/icons
AddIcon blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

Since IconPath is set to /icons/ by default, it will be prepended to 'blank.gif' when the AddIcon directive is used.

The Port directive has two behaviors:

• In the absence of any Listen directives specifying a port number, a Port directive given in the "main server" (for example, outside any <VirtualHost> section) sets the network port on which the server listens. If there are any Listen directives specifying the port number then Port has no effect on what address the server listens at. The use of the Listen directive causes all Port directives to be ignored.
• The Port directive sets the SERVER_PORT environment variable (for CGI and SSI), and is used when the server must generate a URL that refers to itself (for example when creating an external redirect to itself). This behavior is modified by UseCanonicalName.

In no event does a Port setting affect what ports a VirtualHost responds on, the VirtualHost directive itself is used for that. The primary behavior of Port should be considered to be similar to that of the ServerName directive. The ServerName and Port together specify what you consider to be the canonical address of the server. (See also UseCanonicalName.)

Parameter: number

• Where number is a number from 0 to 65535; some port number (especially below 1024) are reserved for particular protocols. The standard port for http protocol is 80.