Apache is the most widely used HTTP-server in the world today. It surpasses all free and commercial competitors on the market, and provides a myriad of features; more than the nearest cmpetitor could give you on a UNIX variant. It is also the most used web server for a Linux system. A web server like Apache, in its simplest function, is software that displays and serves HTML pages hosted on a server to a client browser that understands the HTML code. Mixed with third party modules and programs, it can become powerful software, which will provide strong and useful services to a client browser. I expect that most of the users that read this book will be especially interested in knowing how to install the Apache web server in the most secure, and optimized, way. In its base install, Apache is no more difficult to install then...
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