README

                                 Apache
                             Version 1.3 (and up)

  What is it?
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  Apache httpd 1.3 is a HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement 
  for the NCSA server version 1.3 (or 1.4). It fixes numerous bugs in
  the NCSA server, includes many frequently-requested new features, 
  and has an API which allows it to be extended more easily to meet 
  users' needs.

  The Latest Version
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  Apache httpd 1.3 has reached end of life, as of January 2010. 
  No further releases of this software will be made, although critical 
  security updates may be made available as patches from the following 
  website:
  
    http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/

  Users are encouraged to upgrade to version 2.2 or higher of 
  Apache httpd. 
  
  Information on upgrading is available from the following website:

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

  Documentation
  -------------

  The documentation available as of the date of this release is
  also included, in HTML format, in the htdocs/manual/ directory.
  For the most up-to-date documentation can be found on
  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/.

  Installation
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  For detailed installation instructions, please see the INSTALL 
  file in this directory.

  Licensing
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  For license details, please see the LICENSE file in this directory.

  Acknowledgments
  ----------------

  We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
  make up portions of the Apache software:

  Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
  for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
  Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
  modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
  Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).

  This package contains a modified version of software written and
  copyrighted by Henry Spencer.  Please see the file called 
  src/regex/COPYRIGHT. 

  The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group
  by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (http://www.valicert.com/).