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- Apache HTTP Server
-
- What is it?
- -----------
-
- The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
- web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
- Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
- Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
- developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
- commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
- source code.
-
- The Latest Version
- ------------------
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- Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
- server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
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- Documentation
- -------------
-
- The documentation available as of the date of this release is
- included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
- up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/>.
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- Installation
- ------------
-
- Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be
- found in README.platforms.
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- Licensing
- ---------
-
- Please see the file called LICENSE.
-
- Contacts
- --------
-
- o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
- security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server
- subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under
- <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce>
-
- o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the
- Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> or one of the following
- USENET newsgroups:
- comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
- comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
- Also available at:
- <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers>
-
- o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact
- one of the companies and contractors which are listed at
- <http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi>
-
- o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the
- Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
- <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>
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- o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please
- subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev>
-
- Acknowledgments
- ----------------
-
- We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
- make up portions of the Apache software:
-
- Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
- for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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- This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
- Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
- modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
- Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
-
- Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
- is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
- University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
- ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
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- Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
- a build environment.
-