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310a864a23e6d0baec9ffd50be6539da63564bc9JazzyNico
310a864a23e6d0baec9ffd50be6539da63564bc9JazzyNico Apache HTTP Server
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis What is it?
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis source code.
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis The Latest Version
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Documentation
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis The documentation available as of the date of this release is
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis up-to-date documentation can be found at
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/.
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Installation
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis found in README.platforms.
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Licensing
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Please see the file called LICENSE.
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis Cryptographic Software Notice
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871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis This distribution may include software that has been designed for use
871e6dec0a43899a0031100adcf3343a7746bfa5Alex Valavanis with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside
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310a864a23e6d0baec9ffd50be6539da63564bc9JazzyNico 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.
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.
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