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How to tell if Apache 2 is using prefork or worker MPM?

Answer:

If you are running in Red Hat Linux/ Fedora/ CentOS

# httpd -V
....
Architecture:   64-bit
Server MPM:     Prefork
  threaded:     no
    forked:     yes (variable process count)
...

If you are running in Debian/ Ubuntu, you can use apache2 -V, which get the same output as above.

How to list all the UUID of my hard disks

Answer:

To list all the UUID of my hard disks, you can use the blkid command.

# sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="9f95f559-9986-4dfc-8661-849bb54ed5a5" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="0fe4eedc-65dd-4b46-85c9-11795f2cdc57"

Remove default Debian/Ubuntu default Apache welcome page

Answer:

To remove the Apache default welcome page under Debian/Ubuntu,

1. Remove the welcome page configuration

# a2dissite default

2. Restart Apache

# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 

That's all.

How to check which mime types are supported by your Debian/Ubuntu

Answer:

The /etc/mime.types file is the system-wide rules which defined for mapping filename suffices to mime types. Your Apache on Debian based Linux will read this file and set the correct Content-type header for these files when serving to users.

# cat /etc/mime.types

Check Debian version information

Answer:

To check the Debian version information in Debian/Ubuntu

Try:

# cat /etc/debian_version
squeeze/sid