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What is the Apache web server?

  1. Apache is a world-wide web (WWW) HTTP (hypertext transfer porotocol) server.
  2. Apache is the most popular HTTP server on the Internet, providing HTTP service for over 50
  3. Not created by a business - the Apache Group (www.apache.org) consists of roughly three dozen contributors around the Internet.
  4. Derived from the original NCSA web server.
  5. Apache - "a patchy server".

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