Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C By:   Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern Published:   O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.  - March 1999 Copyright © 1999 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Chapter 3 - The Apache Module Architecture and API

In this section...

Introduction How Apache Works The Apache Life Cycle The Handler API Perl API Classes and Data Structures

Introduction

In This Chapter

• How Apache Works
• The Apache Life Cycle
• The Handler API
• Perl API Classes and Data Structures

In this chapter we lay out the design of the Apache module architecture and its application programming interface. We describe the phases in which Apache processes each request, list the data types that are available for your use, and go over the directives that control how extension modules can intercede in transaction processing.

This is the broad overview of the API. For a full blow-by-blow description of each function and data structure available to you, see Chapter 9, Perl API Reference Guide, and Chapters 10 and 11, C API Reference Guide, Part I and Part II.