Apache HTTP Server | |
What is it? | |
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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 | |
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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-2.0/. | |
Installation | |
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Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be | |
found in README.platforms. | |
Licensing | |
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Please see the file called LICENSE. | |
Contacts | |
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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 | |
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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 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide | |
a build environment. |