7 The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
8 web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
9 Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
10 Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
11 developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
12 commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
18 Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
19 server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.
24 The documentation available as of the date of this release is
25 included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
26 up-to-date documentation can be found at
27 http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/.
32 Please see the file called INSTALL.
37 Please see the file called LICENSE.
42 o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
43 security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server
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51 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
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56 o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact
57 one of the companies and contractors which are listed at
58 http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi
60 o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the
61 Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
62 http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html
64 o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please
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66 http://www.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev
71 We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
72 make up portions of the Apache software:
74 Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
75 for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
76 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
78 This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
79 Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
80 modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
81 Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
83 Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
84 is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
85 University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
86 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
88 Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide