| Apache HTTP Server | |
| What is it? | |
| ----------- | |
| The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant | |
| web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP | |
| Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the | |
| Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the | |
| developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust, | |
| commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available | |
| source code. | |
| The Latest Version | |
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| Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP | |
| server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/. | |
| Documentation | |
| ------------- | |
| The documentation available as of the date of this release is | |
| included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most | |
| up-to-date documentation can be found at | |
| http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/. | |
| Installation | |
| ------------ | |
| Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be | |
| found in README.platforms. | |
| Licensing | |
| --------- | |
| Please see the file called LICENSE. | |
| Contacts | |
| -------- | |
| o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, | |
| security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server | |
| subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under | |
| http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce | |
| o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the | |
| Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at | |
| http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html or one of the following USENET | |
| newsgroups: | |
| comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix | |
| comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows | |
| Also available at: | |
| http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers | |
| o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact | |
| one of the companies and contractors which are listed at | |
| http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi | |
| o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the | |
| Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report: | |
| http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html | |
| o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please | |
| subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at | |
| http://www.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev | |
| 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). | |
| Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which | |
| is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the | |
| University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from | |
| ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/ | |
| Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide | |
| a build environment. |