Web Servers

From Uweb

A Web Server can refer to the actual computer that does the web serving, or more typically, the software that delivers content to the user via the HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP.

There are several varieties of Web Servers that run on various operating systems. It's most common to find Apache running on Linux servers and IIS running on Windows servers, but Apache and ligHTTPd will also run on Windows servers.

Contents 1 Apache 2 ligHTTPd 3 IIS 4 Other Resources

Apache

Apache is the 'standard' for web servers, and has been around since 1995. Both version 1.3.x and 2.x.x are available for free through the Apache Foundation, http://www.apache.org .

Please see the detail page on Apache or it's Category:Apache page for more information.

ligHTTPd

ligHTTPd is an alternative web server application that uses far less resources than Apache does. Please see the ligHTTPD page for more information. ligHTTPd is commonly pronounced "lighty."

IIS

IIS stands for Internet Information Services, and is the de-facto web server for the Windows platform.

Other Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server - Wiki article on web servers, which goes into more detail.