Htaccess - Require Auth For Everywhere Except Whitelist

Create an htaccess file that requires authentication for everywhere except a whitelist of routes.

Example Apache SSL Config

Example Apache SSL configuration file that you can use and tweak to your needs

Comparing Nginx And Apache In Burst Workloads

Here we compare Nginx vs Apache at handling burst workloads and explain why one of them appears to handle it much better than the other.

Stress Testing Web Servers With Apache Benchmark