Apache Server

Apache is an ongoing group software development effort. Rob McCool developed Apache while he was working at the University of Illinois at the NCSA in 1994. Several Webmasters from around the world created their own extensions to the server and formed an e- mail group so that they could coordinate their changes (known as "patches") to the system. The system consisted of the original core system with a lot of patches thus it became known as "a patchy" server, or simply, "Apache." The Apache Web server is currently available on the Web at no cost as open source software.

Apache HTTP Server dominates the Web, in part, because it is free and performs very efficiently. It is powerful enough that IBM has licensed it for its own WebSphere application server package. Other Web server products, such as Zeus, are also based on the Apache open source code. In the period from 1996 through 2007, Apache enjoyed the highest increase in Internet Web sites of all Web servers, according to a Netcraft survey. Currently; Apache is more widely used than all the other Web servers combined . Apache runs on any. operating systems (including FreeBSD UNIX, HP UX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, SCO UNIX, and Solaris) and the hardware that supports them. Apache has a built in search engine and HTML authoring tools.

Apache has wizards available to create new sites and directories, and the server provides for multiple logs that can be automatically cycled or archived. Cycling a log means replacing the oldest log with the newest, thus recycling the space it occupies. Archiving a log means saving it, perhaps on a backup storage device. The log entries conform to the established, standard NCSA common log format to which many servers adhere.

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