This web server created by American software developer Robert McCool. Apache was released in 1995. In the early 2020s, Apache servers deployed about 30 percent of the Internet’s content.
Web servers are used to serve Web pages requested by client computers. File servers, database servers, mail servers, and web servers use different kinds of server software. Each of these applications can access files stored on a physical server and use them for various purposes.
Apache HTTP Server is commonly referred to as Apache and after development, it quickly became the most popular HTTP client on the web. Although it is Apache a web server, it is not a physical server, but rather a software that runs on an HTTP server. Its job is to establish a connection between a server and the browsers of website visitors (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) while delivering files back and forth between them (client-server structure).
Apache is just one component that is needed in a web application stack to deliver web content. Apache Web Servers are often used in combination with the MySQL database engine, the HyperText Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language, and other popular scripting languages such as Python and Perl. This configuration is termed LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP).
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