Question : can someone explain me how to tune apache with brief examples?

hi can someone explain me how to tune apache?
how to start and stop apache?
how to secure incoming requests?
how to compile a module using gcc from source code ?
what is rewritecondition and rewriterule? explain in detail with a simple example?
what kind of logs does apache have like access.log .. and how to rotate logs .. and types of logging like error,debug etc ..?
how to use ssl in apache .. do we need to include any module?
how to compile mod-jk module ?
how to configure LDAP to apache for authentication?
how to analyse access logs?

Answer : can someone explain me how to tune apache with brief examples?

Here's all the help and examples you'll need to start:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/