Web Server Understanding

Basic Theory
Web server is one of the backbone of the internet service providers or servers on the Internet. Apache is the most popular web server in this time where a survey of more than 50% netcarft world sites use

Apache as a Web server. Besides being faster apache is also flexible because it can be implemented for various operating systems. Easy to configure, you can add other modules through Apache.

Apache provides a rich facility that is needed for a server site, such as authentication, directory access settings, virtual hosts, URL rewriting capabilities, properties, and also alias. Functions that have loeh apache logs can dikrim through the process piping, so that log rotation can be done, filter the log, as well as perform splitting logs directly.
In 1999, Apache Software Foundation was formed to manage the development of this Apache. Apache web server has been proved as a faster, more stable with the richest features of the web server laiinya. Apache cuku it can provide much more for its use because it has a lot of support programs such as access control, CGI, PHP and others.
In almost all Linux distributions, including Apache as the standard for web server applications. Given the many who will use this application package and is run as a standard application in linux, then the application will be used as a web server is Apache.