Link Details

In 14 years of its 15 year history, the Apache HTTP Server has been the most popular server on the internet. Since its beginning in 1995, it has served billions of pages, and in 2009 it became the first web server software to reach 100 million web sites. It was in use before the Apache Software Foundation began and it was the first Top-Level Project around which the Foundation rallied and grew. The Apache web server is also known for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Despite challenges from other web servers like Microsoft's IIS, Apache HTTP Server has remained the top server on the web, with over 54% of all web pages using it. Recently, the project team decided that 1.3.42 would be the last update of the Apache HTTP Server's first version.