Apache HTTP Server | |
What is it? | |
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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/>. | |
Documentation | |
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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/>. | |
Installation | |
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Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be | |
found in README.platforms. | |
Licensing | |
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Please see the file called LICENSE. | |
Cryptographic Software Notice | |
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This distribution may include software that has been designed for use | |
with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside | |
may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export | |
to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption | |
software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies | |
concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption | |
software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> | |
for more information. | |
The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and | |
Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity | |
Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security | |
software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric | |
algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation | |
distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception | |
ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS | |
Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object | |
code and source code. | |
The following provides more details on the included files that | |
may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software: | |
Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under | |
modules/ssl/ | |
for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted | |
network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption | |
library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific | |
SSL facilities. | |
In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface | |
for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory | |
srclib/apr-util/ssl/ | |
that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as | |
OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities. | |
Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface. | |
Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the | |
word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the | |
OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from | |
<http://www.openssl.org/source/>. | |
The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic | |
functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution. | |
Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl" | |
in the package name have been created without the above files and are | |
therefore not subject to this notice. | |
Contacts | |
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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> | |
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 | |
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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. | |
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/ | |
Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide | |
a build environment. |