Eliminating unnecessary modules

Disabling these Apache web server modules, some are experimental and/or slow… did not seem to have any negative effects… If anyone else has opinions on the disabling of these modules I’d greatly appreciate hearing about them… otherwise I think it is safe to disable these and enable on an as needed basis to conserve memory and improve performance… modify your server at your own risk… also you may need to chmod 644 httpd.conf if the modules list doesn’t update properly… not sure where in Interworx this file is getting reset but all works fine after the chmod.

foo_module
cgi_module
cgid_module
auth_anon_module
auth_dbm_module
auth_digest_module
cache_module
disk_cache_module
mem_cache_module
ext_filter_module
include_module
deflate_module
mime_magic_module
headers_module
usertrack_module
proxy_connect_module
proxy_ftp_module
dav_module
status_module
asis_module
info_module
dav_fs_module
negotation_module
imap_module
actions_module
speling_module

Disabling watch_module in watch.conf keeps my logs a lot cleaner and improves server performance at the expense of not having bandwidth monitoring in Interworx… not sure why this debugging tool is being used for bandwidth monitoring but maybe I can patch an alternative together…

Also, it appears that changes to /usr/local/sim/sim.conf is IGNORED… (I’ve even rebooted the server to see if my changes are picked up to no avail)… is there another sim.conf file that Interworx uses… I want to change the web server status check url from watch-info to something else like just the server root URL…

Thanks,
Cliff.

Cliff,

mod_watch isn’t a debugging tool, it’s a BW monitoring tool :).

Can you explain what in the sim.conf is ignored? We use the conf file at the path you specified.

Chris

Just a comment: disabling negotation_module from iworx produces a syntax error in httpd.conf . It seems that not all related info is removed.
Disabling modules depends on what is being done with the box, before disabling anything better check
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/

[quote=JustMe;9822]Just a comment: disabling negotation_module from iworx produces a syntax error in httpd.conf . It seems that not all related info is removed.
Disabling modules depends on what is being done with the box, before disabling anything better check
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/[/quote]

We’ll get someone to check this out – thanks

Also, RE the doc you refference that seems to be apache 1.3. We use 2.0

Tim

Thanks Tim, you are right, the correct location is
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/