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FrontPage Extension Notes

Use this command to add a frontpage web:

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Determine Apache Compile Settings

How can one determine what settings were used to compile an install of the Apache webserver?

At a command line type the following:

You’ll get back results similar to this:

If you have the source code that was used to do the build available then you can look in the file “config.log”. At the top of the file you’ll see something like this:

The text in bold is the configure line that was used.

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Determine Apache Built In Modules

How can one determine what modules have been compiled into an Apache install?

From the command line type:

You’ll get results similar to this:

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Determine Apache Version

How can one determine the version of Apache webserver installed on a system?

From the command line type:

You’ll get results similar to this:

So in this case the version is 2.0.54.

You can get similar information by requesting a non-existent page from the server with your web browser. The server version will be displayed at the end of the error message.

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View Contents Of SSL Certificate

When you renew an SSL certificate, you have to create a new Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the same information as the original certificate. To get this information there are several options:

1. If the certificate authority (CA) is Verisign then you can search for the certificate on there support website and view the contents. You’ll need to know the exact domain name that was used to generate the certificate.

2. If you have the original CSR then you can use the following command to view the contents:

3. If you have the original certificate the you can use this command to view it’s contents:

Other usefull commands include:

a. Show contents of private key:

b. Generate a key and csr:

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