How to enable mod_info in Apache?

Question

I've gone through the Apache guide to enable to mod_info.

As per doc:

• To configure mod_info, add the following to your httpd.conf file.

  <Location /server-info>
      SetHandler server-info
  </Location>
  

• You may wish to use mod_access inside the <Location> directive to limit access to your server configuration information:

  <Location /server-info>
      SetHandler server-info
      Order deny,allow
      Deny from all
      Allow from yourcompany.com
  </Location>
  

• Once configured, the server information is obtained by accessing

  http://your.host.dom/server-info
  

In my case this link is not giving any info. Is there anything I need to install as mod_info.c or something? Is there anything I need to put as AddModule or something?

Sewerage

Answer 1

There should be a mod_info.so that must be on a path Apache 2 can find. For example, I have:

kdp@darwin ccl $ locate mod_info.so
/usr/lib64/apache2/modules/mod_info.so

Then, I have these in my httpd.conf:

ServerRoot "/usr/lib64/apache2"
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so

This is made available by a snippet in /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_info.conf:

<IfDefine INFO>
# Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
# http://servername/server-info
<Location /server-info>
    SetHandler server-info
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>
</IfDefine>

(The IfDefine is only needed because of the way stuff is set up on Gentoo.)

Alfilaria

Answer 2

Check if info_module is loaded.

% /usr/local/sbin/httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep info_module

If it is not loaded, add following line to httpd.conf. Note that path/to must be replaced with appropriate path.

LoadModule info_module path/to/mod_info.so

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Answer 3

I got the solution.

1. When I check ./apachectl -l, mod_info has not been installed.

2. To install the Mod_info or any module, First Compile and install Apache by ./configure --enable-info make make install

   More info for install module : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/httpserv/manual60/install.html

3. Check ./apachectl -l, mod_info would be there in the list

4. Enable server-info by updating httpd.conf

5. invoke url http://your.host.dom/server-info

One thing I am not sure why apache mod_info not installed default installation.

Sewerage

"why apache mod_info not installed default" - mod_info is very much an "additional" module for development purposes only. It should be never be enabled in a production environment. So it should never be enabled in a "default installation". There are many other Apache modules that are not enabled by "default", as they are simply not required in the vast majority of cases. – Gassman

Note that the apachectl -l lists modules compiled along Apache. However, Apache is capable of dynamically loading modules and thus does not require you to compile them in the server directly. – Songster