Configuring IBM HTTP Server

To configure the IBM® HTTP Server, edit the httpd.conf configuration file. To successfully configure the server, the name of the configuration file must be retained as httpd.conf.

• Locating the default and sample configuration files.
  The httpd.conf configuration file is in the conf directory of your server installation. There is also an httpd.conf.default file, in case you need to use another copy of the original file.

  Restriction: To successfully configure the server, the name of the configuration file must be retained as httpd.conf.
  IBM HTTP Server also provides the following configuration files:

  • admin.conf.default
  • magic.default
  • mime.types.default
• Special considerations for IBM HTTP Server. The following items regarding the configuration file should be known when using IBM HTTP Server:
  • Configuration files that only support single-byte characters (SBCS) are:
    • httpd.conf (IBM HTTP Server configuration file)
      Restriction: To successfully configure the server, the name of the configuration file must be retained as httpd.conf.
    • admin.conf (Administration server configuration file)
  • The forward slash character (/) should be used as a path separator in the configuration file, instead of the backward slash character (\).
• Configure your operating system to allow large log files for the IBM HTTP Server plug-in.

  You can configure your operating system to allow the log file for the IBM HTTP Server plug-in to exceed the typical two gigabytes size limit. To enable this functionality, add the USEPLUGINLARGEFILE environment variable to your operating system configuration settings, and set it to true, before you start the IBM HTTP Server. If you do not add this environment variable to your operating system settings, or if you set this environment variable to false, the log file is limited to 2 gigabytes.

  Avoid trouble: Because not limiting the size of the log file might cause storage resources to be exhausted, if you decide to use this environment variable, you should periodically monitor the size of this log file.gotcha