What is Apache Web Server
- Apache is generally used as the world's most popular Web server. Used for different web technologies like php. jsp, Flex etc etc...
- Its mainly designed for Linux and Unix Environment.
- Apache web server can also use in Windows and Mac Environment also.
What is Apache Software Foundation
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is maintaining the updates . Its a non profit corporation.
- It is incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June of 1999.
- he ASF is a natural outgrowth of The Apache Group, a group of individuals that was initially formed in 1995 to develop the Apache HTTP Server.
- The name 'Apache' was chosen from respect for the various Native American nations collectively referred to as Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. It also makes a cute pun on "a patchy web server" -- a server made from a series of patches -- but this was not its origin.
- The Apache Web server provides a full range of Web server features, including CGI, SSL, and virtual domains. Apache also supports plug-in modules for extensibility.
- Apache is free software, distributed by the Apache Software Foundation that promotes various free and open source advanced Web technologies.
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