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Apache modules

standard modules

mod_userdir

Allows to access user specific directories (http://example.foo/~bar/something.html)

mod_rewrite

Rewrite urls with regular expressions.

mod_auth

HTTP Authentication

mod_auth_anon

FTP like authentication (username = anon, password = email address)

mod_auth_dbm

Authentication with usernames and their passwords stored in a DBM database.

mod_auth_digest

Authentication with MD5 digest algorithm.

mod_auth_ldap

Authentication with username and passwords stored in LDAP directory.

mod_access

Authentication using hostname, IP address or other characteristics of the client.

mod_mime

Uses requested filename's extension to determine mime type, language, character set and encoding of the answer

mod_mime_magic

Uses file's content to determine mime type, language, character set and encoding of the answer

mod_alias

Map different parts of the filesystem into the perceived tree structure of the webserver.

mod_env

Modifying the environement passed to CGI scripts and SSI pages.

mod_spelling

Correct misspellings in the URL

mod_actions

Execute CGI scripts if mime type requires so.

mod_asis

Sending files already having a header.

mod_autoindex

Listing directories content if url is a directory.

mod_cgi

Execution of CGI scripts

mod_include

Server Side Includes (SSI)

mod_dir

Trailing slashes in URL

mod_imap

Image map processing.

mod_log_config

Log the request.

mod_logio

Loggin number of input and output bytes for the request.

Other modules

mod_perl

See also here.