Mods

What is a Mod or Module?

The Apache web server is a very extendible web server.
You can add modules to extension the functions of the server.
One module the that is very popular is mod_re-write.so.
This Module which gives you clean looking URL's.



In the picture above you see the mod_re-write.so is commented out my the # sign.
If you like to use mod_re-write you would have to un-comment it and restart the Web Server.

In the picture below is a view of the MAMP Server httpd.conf file and you see that the mod_re-write.so is
on by not having the # sign in front of the module.


Please note: That modules most exits in the Modules folder for you to use the LoadModule Directive in the httpd.conf file.
Some modules also have parameters that need Directives.