Fancyhdr for books

Question

I get confused with fancyhdr. Let's consider this minimal example:
documentclass{book}
usepackage{fancyhdr}
usepackage{lipsum}

pagestyle{fancy}

begin{document}
frontmatter
title{A dummy document}
author{John Doe}
maketitle
tableofcontents
section{Abstract}
lipsum{2}
mainmatter
chapter{Foo}
section{Neo}
lipsum{8-12}
section{Trinity}
lipsum{13-20}
chapter{Bar}
section{Morpheus}
lipsum{21-25}
backmatter
section{Appendix}
lipsum{26}
end{document}

I can note different header/footer styles:

Empty (title page)
No headers + header line + page number in roman (after title page)
No headers + page number in roman (page with tableofcontents)
Headers + page number in roman (other pages in frontmatter)
No headers + page number in arabic (chapter pages)
Headers + page numbers in arabic (other pages in mainmatter)

I don't really understand (2) and (3). How can I configure all these different configurations?
If I add the following it doesn't affect the titlepage, the chapter pages and the numbering type:
fancyhead{}
fancyhead[CE]{Even}
fancyhead[CO]{Odd}

How can I configure fancyhdr to:

Remove headers/footers on empty pages?
Configure header/footers on chapter pages?
Configure header/footers on other pages?

Luis Turcio · Answer

Remove headers and footers on empty pages
The first question is not about fancyhdr is the behavior of cleardoblepage. In order to remove headers and footers on empty pages I use the following code in the preamble:
makeatletter
  defcleardoublepage{clearpageif@twoside ifoddc@pageelse
  vspace*{fill}
    thispagestyle{empty}
    newpage
    if@twocolumnhbox{}newpagefififi}
makeatother

Configure headers and footers on chapter pages
chapter resets the page style to plain by default. If you want to change the style of this page, try:
chapter{Foo}
thispagestyle{fancy}

Headers and footers in other pages
An example on how to modify headers and footer on other pages:
pagestyle{fancy}
fancyhf{} %clear headers and footers
fancyhead[LE,RO]{thepage} %page number on the left on even pages and the right of odd pages
fancyhead[CO]{leftmark} %chapter name in the center of odd pages
fancyhead[CE]{rightmark} %section title in the center of even pages
renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt} %rule width

for this part you need to read a little more, because is difficult to make an example to illustrate every aspect of fancyhdr. Try something basic or the manual.

Fancyhdr for books

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Remove headers and footers on empty pages

Configure headers and footers on chapter pages

Headers and footers in other pages

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