limit maximum clients using apache web server

hi,
i hope somebody can help me. i wish to limit the number of
clients that can access my Apache Web server. i already set the
MaxClients of the httpd.conf to 5 but the server still allows more
than 5 workstations to connect. i am not sure if my other settings
caused this behaviour. i have sent a copy of the httpd.conf. i hope
somebody can give me some advice. thanks!

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## httpd.conf -- Apache HTTP server configuration file

ServerType standalone
ServerRoot "/www"
PidFile /www/logs/httpd.pid
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 5
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 0
MaxSpareServers 0
StartServers 1
MaxClients 5
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
#Listen 3000
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
#BindAddress *
LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
Port 80
User nobody
Group nobody
ServerAdmin root@(none)
ServerName www.myweb.com

DocumentRoot "/www/htdocs"

<Directory "/www/htdocs/test">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Documents"
AuthUserFile /var/etc/smartcam/initfiles/.webui/basic
Require user admin root
</Directory>

#<Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
#</Directory>

#<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
# Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
# AllowOverride None
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
#</Directory>

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex home.php
</IfModule>

AccessFileName .htaccess

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

UseCanonicalName On

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
TypesConfig /www/conf/mime.types
</IfModule>

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
MIMEMagicFile /www/conf/magic
</IfModule>

HostnameLookups Off

ErrorLog /www/logs/error_log

LogLevel warn

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\"
\"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

CustomLog /www/logs/access_log common

ServerSignature On

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /icons/ "/www/icons/"

<Directory "/www/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /manual/ "/www/htdocs/manual/"

<Directory "/www/htdocs/manual">
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

#AddDescription "GZIP compressed document" .gz
#AddDescription "tar archive" .tar
#AddDescription "GZIP compressed tar archive" .tgz

ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER

IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage et .ee
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage he .he
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis
AddLanguage kr .kr
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso-kr
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso-pl
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-br .pt-br
AddLanguage ltz .lu
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw
AddCharset Big5 .Big5 .big5
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso-ru
AddCharset KOI8-R .koi8-r
AddCharset UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
LanguagePriority en da nl et fr de el it ja kr no pl pt pt-br
ru ltz ca es sv tw
</IfModule>

AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddEncoding x-compress .Z
AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
#AddType application/x-compress .Z
#AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
#AddType text/html .shtml
#AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
#AddHandler send-as-is asis
#AddHandler imap-file map
#AddHandler type-map var
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0
force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
</IfModule>
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nick_faye

ivpfmc28@yahoo.com (nick_faye) said:
> i hope somebody can help me. i wish to limit the number of
>clients that can access my Apache Web server. i already set the
>MaxClients of the httpd.conf to 5 but the server still allows more
>than 5 workstations to connect.

That'll ensure that at most five transfers are occurring simultaneously.
So, as long as the workstations are not conecting at exactly the same
moment to retrieve content, there an be more than 5, even with that
limitation. Note that a workstation is connected only for the duration
to download content for one page, after that it disconnects.

Now, what it is that you're doing/why do you need this limitation?
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