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- Apache
- Version 1.3 (and up)
-
- What is it?
- -----------
-
- Apache is an HTTP server, originally designed for Unix systems. This
- is the version of Apache for Microsoft Windows 2000, NT, 98, and 95
- systems. Like the Unix version, it includes many frequently
- requested new features, and has an API that allows it to be extended
- to meet users' needs more easily. It also allows limited support for
- ISAPI extensions.
-
-
- The Latest Version
- ------------------
-
- Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
- server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.
-
- Documentation
- -------------
-
- The documentation available as of the date of this release is
- also included, in HTML format, in the htdocs/manual/ directory.
- For the most up-to-date documentation can be found on
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/. For Windows specific information, see
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html.
-
- WARNING
- -------
-
- Apache should never be used as a production server under any
- consumer operating system such as Windows 95, 98, or ME (Millennium
- Edition). Only Windows NT 4.0 or 2000 should be considered, and only
- with appropriate NTFS file system and user security administration.
- Apache runs on these consumer Windows environments only to
- provide test, development or trusted intranet server platforms.
-
- Apache on Win32 should be considered initial-release quality code.
- It has not been subjected to the same stresses on its stability and
- security that the Unix releases have enjoyed, so there is a greater
- possibility of undiscovered vulnerabilities to stability or security
- of the Win32 port.
-
- Apache performs best, and is still most reliable on Unix platforms.
- Over time the performance, reliability and security for the Apache
- Win32 port has improved, and continues to improve. Folks doing
- comparative reviews of webserver performance are still asked to
- compare against Apache running on a Unix platform such as
- Solaris, FreeBSD, or Linux.
-
- The Win32 code for Apache 2.0 has been entirely revised and large
- segments have been rewritten from scratch. Once the Apache 2.0
- server is released, we strongly encourage all Win32 users to move to
- that platform for increased stability and security.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- See the http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html for details of how
- to install, configure and run Apache. These documents are also
- accessable from the "Documentation" program group listed within the
- "Apache Web Server" Start Menu programs group created by the full
- Apache Win32 program installer.
-
- Known Problems
- --------------
-
- To get information about the current set of known problems, see the
- online bug reporting database at
-
- http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html
-
- Bugs which affect Apache on Windows and not Apache on Unix can be
- found under the category "os-windows".
-
- Do not report configuration problems to this database. Please first
- research the problem you are experiencing on the newsgroup
- news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows and search the bugs
- database before posting a bug report.
-
- Licensing
- ---------
-
- Please see the file called LICENSE.
-
- Acknowledgments
- ----------------
-
- 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).
-
- This package contains software written and copyrighted by Henry
- Spencer. Please see the file called src/regex/COPYRIGHT.
-
- The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group
- by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (http://www.valicert.com/).
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