In recent versions, the Apache people have moved all the configuration options to single httpd.conf file, in the conf directory. This makes access.conf and srm.conf obsolete. They're still there, though, because Apache looks for them when it starts up. Now we're going to work on some basic configuration options. This is the first option you'll see.
Valid arguments are standalone or inetd.
For this tutorial, I'm going to leave it at standalone. I won't cover what they do here. The next option you'll come along is MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers. Apache allocates one process per request, so this functions as somewhat of a thermostat, keeping the ammount of current idle servers between the two values. MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers indicates how many initial processes should be started by the parent httpd process.