around, and people were freely sharing it, but it was completely unmanaged.
After a while, Brian Behlendorf and Cliff Skolnick set up a centralized
repository of these patches, and the Apache project was born. The project still
involves a small core group of programmers, but anyone is welcome to
submit patches to the group for possible inclusion in the code.
There has been a surge of interest in the Apache project over the past several
years, partially buoyed by a new interest in open source on the part of
enterprise-level information services. It’s also due in part to crippling security
flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS); the existence of
malicious web task exploits; and operating system and networking
vulnerabilities to the now-infamous Code Red, Blaster, and Nimda worms.
IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its
web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it
makes sense to use an established, proven web server.
In mid-1999, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) was incorporated as a
nonprofit company. A board of directors, who are elected on an annual basis
by the ASF members, oversees the company. This company provides a
foundation for several open source software development projects, including
the Apache web server project.
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You can find an overview of Apache in its FAQs at
https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ. In addition to extensive online
documentation, you’ll find the complete documentation for Apache in the
HTML directory of your Apache server. If you have Apache running on
your system, you can access this documentation by looking at
http://localhost/manual/index.html.To determine the precise version of Apache included with your system, use
the following:
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matthew@seymour:~$ apache2 -v
Installing the Apache Server
Install the apache2 package from the Ubuntu software repositories. Updated
packages usually contain important bug and security fixes. When an updated
version is released, install it as quickly as possible to keep your system
secure.
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