What is Apache?
• is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1 compliant web server • implements the latest protocols, including HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616) • is highly configurable and extensible with third-party modules • can be customised by writing ‘modules’ using the Apache module API • provides full source code and comes with an unrestrictive license • runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems • is actively being developed • encourages user feedback through new ideas, bug reports and patches • implements many frequently requested features, including: DBM databases for authentication allows you to easily set up password-protected pages with enormous numbers of authorized users, without bogging down the server. Customized responses to errors and problems Allows you to set up files, or even CGI scripts, which are returned by the server in response to errors and problems, e.g.
• is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1 compliant web server • implements the latest protocols, including HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616) • is highly configurable and extensible with third-party modules • can be customised by writing ‘modules’ using the Apache module API • provides full source code and comes with an unrestrictive license • runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems • is actively being developed • encourages user feedback through new ideas, bug reports and patches • implements many frequently requested features, including:DBM databases for authenticationallows you to easily set up password-protected pages with enormous numbers of authorized users, without bogging down the server.Customized responses to errors and problemsAllows you to set up files, or even CGI scripts, which are returned by the server in response to errors and problems, e.g.
• is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1 compliant web server • implements the latest protocols, including HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616) • is highly configurable and extensible with third-party modules • can be customised by writing ‘modules’ using the Apache module API • provides full source code and comes with an unrestrictive license • runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems • is actively being developed • encourages user feedback through new ideas, bug reports and patches • implements many frequently requested features, including: DBM databases for authentication allows you to easily set up password-protected pages with enormous numbers of authorized users, without bogging down the server. Customized responses to errors and problems Allows you to set up files, or even CGI scripts, which are returned by the server in response to errors and problems, e.g. setup a script to intercept 500 Server Errors and perform on-the
Apache was originally based on code and ideas found in the most popular HTTP server of the time.. NCSA httpd 1.3 (early 1995). It has since evolved into a far superior system which can rival (and probably surpass) almost any other UNIX based HTTP server in terms of functionality, efficiency and speed. It has several new features (among which are highly configurable error messages, DBM-based authentication databases, and content negotiation). It also offers dramatically improved performance, and fixes many bugs in the NCSA 1.3 code.
