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/2.4/. | |
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. | |
Cryptographic Software Notice | |
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This distribution may include software that has been designed for use | |
with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside | |
may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export | |
to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption | |
software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies | |
concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption | |
software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> | |
for more information. | |
The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and | |
Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity | |
Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security | |
software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric | |
algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation | |
distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception | |
ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS | |
Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object | |
code and source code. | |
The following provides more details on the included files that | |
may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software: | |
Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under | |
modules/ssl/ | |
for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted | |
network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption | |
library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific | |
SSL facilities. | |
In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface | |
for symmetrical cryptographic functions that make use of a | |
general-purpose encryption library, such as OpenSSL, NSS, or the | |
operating system's platform-specific facilities. This interface is | |
known as the apr_crypto interface, with implementation beneath the | |
/crypto directory. The apr_crypto interface is used by the | |
mod_session_crypto module available under | |
modules/session | |
for optional encryption of session information. | |
Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the | |
word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the | |
OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from | |
<http://www.openssl.org/source/>. | |
The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic | |
functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution. | |
Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl" | |
in the package name have been created without the above files and are | |
therefore not subject to this notice. | |
Contacts | |
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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 see the | |
resources at <http://httpd.apache.org/support.html> | |
o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please see the instructions | |
for bug reporting at <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://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev> | |