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In [[computing]], the '''[[Apache HTTP Server]]''', an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[HTTP server]], comprises a small core for [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP request/response processing]] and for Multi-Processing '''Modules''' (MPM) which dispatches data processing to threads or processes. Many additional modules (or "mods"<ref>
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The following is a list of all the first- and third-party modules available for the most recent stable release of [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache web server]]:
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|mod_access_compat|| Versions 2.3 and later ||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Provides compatibility with access control available in Apache httpd v2.2 and earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_access_compat.html |title=Apache Module mod_access_compat |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_actions||Versions 1.1 and later||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Provides [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] ability based on request method and media type<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_actions.html |title=Apache Module mod_actions |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_alias||Versions 1.1 and later||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows for client requests to be mapped to different parts of a server's file system and for the requests to be redirected entirely<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html |title=Apache Module mod_alias |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_allowmethods|| Versions 2.3 and later ||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0|| Easily restrict what HTTP methods can be used on the server.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_allowmethods.html |title=Apache Module mod_allowmethods |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_asis||Versions 1.3 and later||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows for the use of files that contain their own [[HTTP headers]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_asis.html |title=Apache Module mod_asis |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_auth_basic||Versions 2.1 and newer||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Authenticates users via [[Basic access authentication|HTTP Basic Authentication]], the backend mechanism for verifying user authentication is left to configurable providers, usually other Apache modules. This module replaces the authentication frontend of several older modules.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_basic.html |title=Apache Module mod_auth_basic |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_auth_digest||Versions 1.3.8 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Authenticates users via [[Digest access authentication|HTTP Digest Authentication]] utilizing MD5 encryption. This is more secure than [[Basic access authentication|HTTP Basic Authentication]] provided by other modules. As of Apache 2.1, this module acts as a front-end to authentication providers who verify the actual login.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_digest.html |title=Apache Module mod_auth_digest |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_auth_form||Versions 2.3 and newer||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Authenticates users via a login form on a webpage, the backend mechanism for verifying user authentication is left to configurable providers, usually other Apache modules. This module was created to provide functionality similar to that provided by [[Apache Tomcat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html |title=Apache Module mod_auth_form |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_anon||Version 2.1 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Acts as an authentication provider to other modules, like mod_auth_basic and mod_auth_digest, users are authenticated by using a special user id of "anonymous" and providing their email as the password.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authn_anon.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_anon |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_core||Versions 2.3 and newer||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||This module provides core authentication capabilities to allow or deny access to portions of the web site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authn_core.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_core |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_dbd||Version 2.1 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||This module provides authentication front-ends such as mod_auth_digest, mod_auth_basic, and mod_auth_form to authenticate users by looking up users in SQL tables. Similar functionality is provided by, for example, mod_authn_file.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authn_dbd.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_dbd |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_dbm||Version 2.1 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||This module provides authentication front-ends such as mod_auth_digest, mod_auth_basic, and mod_auth_form to authenticate users by looking up users in dbm password files. Similar functionality is provided by mod_authn_file.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authn_dbm.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_dbm |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_file||Version 2.1 and newer||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Acts as an authentication provider to other modules, like mod_auth_basic, mod_auth_digest, and mod_auth_form, by checking users against plaintext password files.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authn_file.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_file |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_rexx
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|Provides an interface for [[Object REXX|ooRexx]] to all request phases.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-17 |title=Mod_rexx |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/modrexx/ |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=SourceForge |language=en}}</ref>
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|mod_wasm||Version 2.4 and newer||Third-party module||[https://wasmlabs.dev/ VMware's Wasm Labs]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0|| Enables the usage of WebAssembly (Wasm) modules in Apache Server. This module will allow to execute certain tasks in the backend in a very efficient and secure way.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/vmware-labs/mod_wasm |title= Apache Module mod_wasm |website= [[GitHub]] |date= 11 October 2022|access-date=2022-10-11}}</ref>
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|mod_access||Versions older than 2.1||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Provides access control based on the client and the client's request<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html |title=Apache Module mod_access |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_aspdotnet|| || || ||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0|| No longer under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella. Development has been resumed by the original authors at its new home, the [
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|mod_auth||Versions older than 2.1||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Authenticates users via [[Basic access authentication]] by checking against [[plaintext]] password and group files. In Apache 2.1 and later, this plaintext authentication is enabled by mod_authn_file instead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth.html |title=Apache Module mod_auth |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_auth_anon||Versions 1.1-2.1||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows authentication with a special user id of "anonymous" and an email address as the password. As an authentication mechanism, this was replaced by mod_authn_anon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_anon.html |title=Apache Module mod_auth_anon |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_auth_db||Versions 1.1-1.3||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Provides user authentication using Berkeley DB files.
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|mod_auth_ldap||Versions 2.0.41-2.1||Experimental Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows [[Basic access authentication|HTTP Basic Authentication]] by checking against an [[LDAP]] directory. The authentication mechanism of checking against an [[LDAP]] directory is provided via mod_authnz_ldap in Apache versions 2.1 and later.
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|mod_auth_oid||Version 2.2||Third-party module||Pascal Buchbinder||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows an Apache server to act as an [[OpenID]] "Relying Party"<ref>{{Cite web|url=
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|mod_authn_alias||Version 2.1 and 2.2||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||This module allows extended authentication providers to be created within the configuration file and assigned an alias name. The alias providers can then be referenced through the directives AuthBasicProvider or AuthDigestProvider in the same way as a base authentication provider.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authn_alias.html |title=Apache Module mod_authn_alias |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authn_default||Version 2.1 and 2.2||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||This module is designed to be the fallback module, if you don't have an authentication module like mod_auth_basic configured. It simply rejects any credentials supplied by the user. This functionality was removed in v2.4.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#misc |title= Upgrading to 2.4 from 2.2 |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.4 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_authnz_mysql||Version 2.2|| || || ||This module provides both authentication and authorization for the Apache 2.2 webserver like mod-authnz-ldap . It uses a MySQL database to retrieve user and group informations.
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|mod_bandwidth||Version 1.2 to 2.1|| Third-party module || Yann Stettler and CohProg SàRL ||[[Apache License]], Version 1.1||Server-wide or per connection bandwidth limits, based on the directory, size of files and remote IP/___domain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cohprog.com/mod_bandwidth |title= mod_bandwidth |date= |
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|mod_frontpage Mirfak|| || || ||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Mirfak is an open-source mod_frontpage reimplementation that is more secure, and can be used with a binary installation of Apache (possibly including mod_ssl, php, etc.). The module is licensed under the Apache license.
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|mod_geoip|| Version 2.0 and above || Third-party module || [[MaxMind]] || [[Apache License]], Version 1.1 ||Looks up the IP address of the client end user. Can be used to perform redirection based on country. Deprecated and replaced with mod_maxminddb.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-mod_geoip2 |title= mod_geoip |website= [[GitHub]] |date= |
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|[[mod_gzip]]|| Version 1.3 to 2.0 || Third-party module || Kevin Kiley, Konstantin Balashov ||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0|| Perform on-the-fly DEFLATE compression.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/ |title= mod_gzip |date= |
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|mod_h264_streaming|| Version 2.2 and newer ||Third-party module || CodeShop ||Dual (cc [[BY-NC-SA]] or commercial)|| H264 Streaming Module.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki |title= mod_h264_streaming |date= |
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|mod_ibm_ssl|| Version 2.2 and up ||Third-party module|| || ||SSL/TLS support for the [[IBM HTTP Server]], a derivative of the [[Apache HTTP Server]].<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-http-server/9.0.5?topic=communications-ssl-directives |title= mod_gzip |website= [[IBM]] |date= |
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|mod_imap||Version 1.2-2.0||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Server side processing for [[Image map]]. This module was renamed to mod_imagemap from v2.2 onwards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_imap.html |title=Apache Module mod_imap |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_macro||Version 1.3 and newer||Third party|| ||[[Apache License]] postcard variant||Allows to define and use macros within Apache runtime configuration files.
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|mod_maxminddb|| Version 2.2 and above || Third-party module || [[MaxMind]] || [[Apache License]], Version 2.0 ||Looks up the IP address of the client end user. Can be used to perform redirection based on country. Replaces mod_geoip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/maxmind/mod_maxminddb |title= mod_maxminddb |website= [[GitHub]] |date= |
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|mod_mem_cache||Version 2.0 to 2.3||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0|| Replaced by mod_cache_socache. Removed in Apache httpd v2.3.
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|[[mod_perl]]||Version 1.3 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows usage of [[Perl]] within Apache
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|[[mod_php]] / libphp5||Version 1.3 and newer<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://modules.apache.org/search.php?id=80 |title=mod_php |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|mod_psgi||Version 2.2 and newer|| || ||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Implements the [[PSGI]] specification within Apache
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|[[mod_python]]||Version 2.0 and newer || Third-party module ||Gregory Trubetskoy et al. ||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0 || Allows usage of [[Python (programming language)|Python]] within Apache<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://modules.apache.org/search.php?id=220 |title=mod_python |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
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|[[mod_proxy]]||Version 1.1 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||
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|[[mod_qos]]||Version 2.2||Third-party module||Pascal Buchbinder||[[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU General Public License, Version 2]]||Controls access to the web server to avoid resource oversubscription.
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|mod_setenvif||Version 1.3 and newer||Included by Default||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||
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|mod_setenvifplus||Version 2.2 and newer||Third-party module||Pascal Buchbinder||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Allows Apache to set [[environment variable]]s based on different parts of a request parsed by [[regular expressions]] and encode/decode [[Base64]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=
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|mod_so||Version 1.3 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||On selected operating systems this module can be used to load modules into Apache HTTP Server at runtime via the Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) mechanism, rather than requiring a recompilation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_so.html.en|title=mod_so - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4|website=httpd.apache.org}}</ref>
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|mod_spambot||Version 1.3 and newer||Third-Party Extension||Nigel Horne||[[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU General Public License, Version 2]]||Blocks bots and harvesters
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|mod_spamhaus||Version 2.2 and newer||Third-party extension||Luca Ercoli||[[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU General Public License, Version 2]]||Blocks requests from IPs on Spamhaus block list.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/lucaercoli/mod_spamhaus |title=Third-party Module mod_spamhaus |publisher=[[GitHub|github.com]] |date= 28 April 2020|
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|mod_speling||Version 1.3 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Attempts to correct mistaken URLs that users might have entered by ignoring capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling
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|[[mod_ssl]]||Version 2.0 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||
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|mod_sslcrl||Version 2.2||Third-party module||Pascal Buchbinder||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Verifies the validity of client certificates against Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)<ref>{{Cite web|url=
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|mod_tidy||Version 2.0/2.2||Third-party module||Sierk Bornemann, Günter Knauf||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||[[
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|mod_tile|| || || |[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_tile OpenStreetMap] |||
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|mod_vhost_alias||Version 1.37 and newer||Stable Extension||[[Apache Software Foundation]]||[[Apache License]], Version 2.0||Creates dynamically configured virtual hosts, by allowing the IP address or the host: header of the HTTP request to be used as part of the pathname to determine what files to serve.
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|mod_whitelist|| Version 2.4 ||Third-party module|| ||[[MIT License]]||IP whitelisting based on a MySQL table [https://github.com/erwinwolff/mod_whitelist see github repository]
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|mod_wl||Depends on module version||Third-party module||Oracle||Oracle proprietary (only pre-compiled binaries are provided, no sources)||Enables working as a proxy for BEA/Oracle WebLogic<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webtier/downloads/ |title=mod_wl - Oracle WebLogic Web Server Plug-ins|date=2014-12-31 |
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|mod_wl_20||Version 2.0||Third-party module||Oracle||Oracle proprietary (only pre-compiled binaries are provided, no sources)||Enables working as a proxy for BEA/Oracle WebLogic
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/ |title=Module Index - Apache HTTP Server |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/ |title=Module Index - Apache HTTP Server |work=Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Documentation |publisher=[[Apache Software Foundation]] |date= |
<ref>{{Cite web|author=|url=http://perl.apache.org/ |title=mod_perl: Welcome to the mod_perl world |publisher=Perl.apache.org |date= |
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