Apache HTTP Server - The most popular web server on the Internet.

Hi Friends,Today's post about Apache HTTP Server.
Apache is very well known Most Popular Web Server in the World as compared to Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) & Other Web Servers flavors like Lighthttpd,Sun Java System Web Server,Jigsaw Server. 
It's Open Source,Robust,free & Stable web server.


The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project.

Features :-

  • Modular to enable easy addition of features. 
  • A vast community of users and developers. 
  • Similar performance to other "high performance" servers. 
  • Virtual hosting, enabling a single physical machine to serve multiple separate websites. 
  • Configurable error messages. 
  • DBMS-based authentication databases. 
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996, and celebrated its 17th birthday as a project this February.


The Apache HTTP Server ("httpd") is a project of The Apache Software Foundation.

Apache httpd 2.4.2 Released 2012-04-17

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is our 2nd GA release of the new generation 2.4.x branch of Apache HTTPD and represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is recommended over all previous releases. This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release.

This version of httpd is a major release of the 2.4 stable branch, and represents the best available version of Apache HTTP Server. New features include Loadable MPMs, major improvements to OSCP support, mod_lua, Dynamic Reverse Proxy configuration, Improved Authentication/Authorization, FastCGI Proxy, New Expression Parser, and a Small Object Caching API.

Download | New Features in httpd 2.4 | Complete ChangeLog for 2.4 | ChangeLog for just 2.4.2
Apache HTTP Server Web Site -
For Documentation -
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
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