What is Apache Web / HTTP Server?
Apache is the open source
web server which is supported by almost all the platforms including Windows,
Linux, UNIX and Mac. It is the most popular web server with around 60% of the
internet websites run on Apache Server and according to Netcraft.com Apache is
running in more than 34 million internet servers.
It supports many good features including password protected pages, customized
error pages and so on.
Reasons of choosing Apache
HTTP Server
- Apache,
MySQL and
PHP are the one of the
robust architectures to deploy web application which is supposed to receive
great traffic.
- It is the most reliable web server for good uptime.
- It is freely available web server with the features of commercial software.
- Switching the platform will not unnecessarily require changing the web server.