Hi Sadhana: Apache is a web server. Technically it supports HTTP protocol. It supports multiple modules/languages like php, perl, python etc.
When you use the browser to connect to a website, you type, http://www.twincling.org/ or similar, the browser sends a HTTP request to the server. the server processes the request and sends a HTTP response The entire protocol is documented as an RFC Please see the overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP The behaviour of Apache webserver is controlled by configuration file(s) ie. httpd.conf To handle missing pages, you need to register a handler for HTTP 404 response. Please make the entry below in either httpd.conf or errors.conf ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html In the file missing.html , you can write a page that shows custom error message etc. This is the way you handle missing page in Apache webserver. To share files or documents over HTTP, you need to setup/configure WebDAV on the webserver. For overview, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV Apache Tomcat is a Servlet container, wherein you program Servlet/JSP in Java. Please note that Apache Webserver and Apache Tomcat are two different products from Apache. When you want to work with Java servlets/JSP, you typically use Tomcat. Hope this helps. thanks Saifi. On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alla Sadhana wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:48:26 -0800 (PST) > Subject: regarding apache > > Hi > Could you give me some information regarding the > communication between two systems with the help of > apache server. > How do we actually share files in a LAN with apache > tomcat server? > how to handle the missing pages? > > thanks > sadhana >
