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A1:
| Linux/Unix users can use the --prefix option of the configure script. If an existing installation is present at that location, the configuration files will be preserved but the binaries will be replaced. On Windows, this location is set in the installation wizard. |
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A2:
| Directory sections refer to file system objects; Location sections refer to elements in the address bar of the Web page (also called the URI ). |
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A3:
| During a normal restart, the server is stopped and then started, causing some requests to be lost. A graceful restart allows Apache children to continue to serve their current requests until they can be replaced with children running the new configuration. |