Apache port included dso modules

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 16:14:31 UTC 2006


On 4/22/06, fbsd <fbsd at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> In the hpptd.conf file their are a bunch of DSO modules being
> included.
>
> Are these required by Apache to run?
>
> The only one I know for sure I am using is the PHP4 one.
>
> Can I comment the rest out to disable them as I considerer
> anything I am not really using as possible security leaks?
>
> Is there documentation on what these DSO modules do and how to use
> them?
>
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It's a very good idea to turn off everything you don't need
on a production server. The default set up is not an outright
security leak, though. Memory consumption is of a much
more realistic importance.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/


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