- Apache
- Version 2.0 (and up)
+ Apache HTTP Server
What is it?
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- Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for
- the NCSA server version 1.3 (or 1.4). It fixes numerous bugs in
- the NCSA server and includes many frequently requested new
- features, and has an API which allows it to be extended to meet
- users' needs more easily.
+ 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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The documentation available as of the date of this release is
- also included, in HTML format, in the htdocs/manual/ directory.
- For the most up-to-date documentation can be found on
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/.
+ included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
+ up-to-date documentation can be found at
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/.
Installation
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- Apache 2.0 uses autoconf for configuration and installation. To create
- Apache's autoconf script, you will need libtool 1.3.3 or higher, and
- autoconf 2.13 or newer. Those tools will not be required if you are just
- using a package downloaded from apache.org, they are only required for
- developers.
-
- To configure Apache 2.0 run the following commands.
-
- ./buildconf (not required unless you are a developer)
- ./configure [autoconf arguments] [apache arguments]
- make
- make install
-
- The buildconf script is very important. Just running autoconf will not
- leave the directory tree in a usable state.
+ 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
+ --------
+
+ 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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modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
- This package contains software written by Philip Hazel and copyrighted by
- the University of Cambridge. Please see the file called
- srclib/pcre/COPYING.
-
- The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group
- by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (http://www.valicert.com/).
+ 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
+ Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
a build environment.
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