Apache HTTP Server

What is it?
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server.  Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.  As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust, commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available source code.

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 included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory.  The most up-to-date documentation can be found at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

Installation
Please see the file called INSTALL.txt.

Licensing
Please see the file called LICENSE.txt.

Contacts
If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under
http://httpd.apache.org/announcelist.html

If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the Apache user community by subscribing to one of the following USENET newsgroups:
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
Also available at: 
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers

If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact one of the companies and contractors which are listed at:
http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi

If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html

If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please subscribe to the `new-httpd' mailing list as described at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#http

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 by Philip Hazel and copyrighted by the University of Cambridge.  Please see the file called srclib/pcre/COPYING.

The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (http://www.valicert.com/).

Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide a build environment.

This Apache 2.0 binary distribution may include OpenSSL binaries copyrighted by Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson and The OpenSSL Project.  If these binaries are installed, please see OPENSSL-README.txt.