29.1. Introduction to Apache
Apache is the Internet's most popular HTTP server, due to its zero cost, wide availability, and large feature set. All Linux distributions include it as a standard package, and it can be installed on or compiled for every other UNIX variant supported by Webmin. It has a very large number of option directives defined in a text configuration file, however, and so can be hard for an inexperienced administrator to set up.
Over the years since it was first introduced, many versions of Apache have been released. Starting with 1.0 and moving through to the current 1.3 and 2.0 series, each version has included more features and options. The basic web server functionality and configuration file layout has remained the same ...
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