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Apache request phases

Each phase of the request is processed by a module or a series of modules. These phases are:
  1. URI to filename translation
    mod_userdir and mod_rewrite
  2. Authentication
    mod_auth, mod_auth_anon, mod_auth_dbm, mod_auth_digest, mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_ldap, mod_access
  3. Fix ups
    For example replace aliases by the actual path
    mod_alias, mod_env
  4. Determining the MIME type of the requested object
    mod_mime, mod_mime_magic
  5. Send the actual data back to the client mod_asis
  6. Log the request mod_log_agent (???), mod_log_config (???), mod_referer (???)