Apache HTTP Server

What is it?

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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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Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP

server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.

Documentation

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The documentation available as of the date of this release is

included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most

up-to-date documentation can be found at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/.

Installation

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Please see the file called INSTALL.

Licensing

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Please see the file called LICENSE.

Contacts

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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/announcelist.html

o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the

Apache user community by subscribing to 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 `new-httpd' mailing list as described at

http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#http

Acknowledgments

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We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that

make up portions of the Apache software:

Portions of this software were developed at the National Center

for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security

Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various

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/).

Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide

a build environment.