Apache

What Is Apache?

Apache is a remarkable piece of application software. It is the most widely used Web Server application in the world with more than 50% share in the commercial web server market.

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Apache is the most widely used Web Server application in Unix-like operating systems but can be used on almost all platforms such as Windows, OS X, OS/2, etc.

The word, Apache, has been taken from the name of the Native American tribe 'Apache', famous for its skills in warfare and strategy making.

It is a modular, process-based web server application that creates a new thread with each simultaneous connection.

It supports a number of features; many of them are compiled as separate modules and extend its core functionality, and can provide everything from server side programming language support to authentication mechanism.

Virtual hosting is one such feature that allows a single Apache Web Server to serve a number of different websites.