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The Apache HTTP Server is based on the NCSA Web server, which itself originated with the first httpd written by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Development of the NCSA server at UIUC stopped after the principle developer, Rob McCool, left in 1994. As the NCSA server was Open Source software, many programmers continued to work on it independently until, in 1995, they formed a group to combine their modifications (known as a patch, yet another of Larry Wall's creations).

This would form what is now the Apache Server Project, from “a patchy server”, though some would dispute this historic name. At any rate, Apache now rules the HTTP server market, as you can see from the Netcraft Survey.

Updated: Saturday, June 25th, 2005 @ 8:52 PM EST [34]

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• 1.The Apache HTTP Server Project

  The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. [131]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://httpd.apache.org/
  Author:
  Apache Project Members
  [4]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 3:29 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Apache HTTP Server Project apacheclient-serverhttpopen sourceserversweb server
   

• 2.Practical mod_perl

  The O'Reilly book of the same title, in HTML format. Easy to navigate from the full table of contents on the index page that this review points at. The appendix is full of goodies, including mod_perl recipes, and an overview of the AxKit XML server. [1336]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://modperlbook.org/html/
  Author:
  Stas Bekman
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, June 25th, 2005 @ 8:52 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Practical mod_perl apachehttpmoduleperlprogrammingweb serverxml
   

• 3.Slashdot: Apache

  Apache news, for nerds. [241]

  ★★★★★
  URI:/app/dnews/apache#news
  Author:
  Slashdot Authors
  [6]
  Reviewed:Thursday, June 16th, 2005 @ 10:31 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Slashdot: Apache apachenewsopen sourceservers
   

• 4.ModSecurity

  As your Web site (hopefully) grows in popularity, there is also a tendency to be noticed by the guys in the black hats. I have to do some more evaluation on this firewall module, but it looks like it has the potential to thwart some of these attacks. [1247]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://modsecurity.org/
  Author:
  Thinking Stone
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 28th, 2005 @ 12:40 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  ModSecurity apachemoduleopen sourcesecurity
   

• 5.Using Server Cache Control to Improve Performance

  This is a very informative article (with examples) on how to make the most of browser caching and reduce unnecessary requests to your Web server. Due to an IE bug, if you're using HTC files, I highly recommend you add text/x-component to the mix. [1241]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/cache/
  Author:
  Andy King
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, May 27th, 2005 @ 8:14 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Using Server Cache Control to Improve Performance apachecacheconfighttpperformanceserverssysadmin
   

• 6.Apache Performance Tuning

  Get out your Unix systems programming, TCP/IP networking and C language books and get ready for some raw speed. Tailored for Apache version 1.3. [1068]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html
  Author:
  Apache Project Members
  [4]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 29th, 2005 @ 4:24 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Apache Performance Tuning apachecconfigperformanceprogrammingserverssysadminunix
   

• 7.mod_gzip

  mod_gzip is an all-in-one content negotiation, encoding, compression and acceleration module for the popular Apache Web server. It compresses Web documents delivered to the client. There is no need to install any additional software on the client! [135]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/
  Author:
  Michael Schröpl
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 4:43 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  mod_gzip apacheconfiggzipmoduleperformanceserverssysadmin
   

• 8.mod_rewrite

  This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. [134]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
  Author:
  Ralf Engelschall
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 4:16 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  mod_rewrite apacheconfigmoduleregexserverssysadminurl
   

• 9.Apache Friends: XAMPP

  An easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. [133]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.apachefriends.org/en/
  Author:
  Kai Seidler
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 3:56 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Apache Friends: XAMPP apacheinstallmysqlperlphp
   

• 10.mod_perl

  mod_perl brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server. You can use Perl to manage Apache, respond to requests for Web pages and much more. [132]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://perl.apache.org/
  Author:
  Contributors
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 3:39 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  mod_perl apachehttpmoduleperl
   

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