I wish I could say that it was something fantastic, but it was out of the blue. It was based on some existing code and a series of software patches, a pun on 'A PAtCHy' server." īut in an April 2000 interview, Behlendorf asserted that the origins of Apache were not a pun, stating: There are other sources for the "patchy" software pun theory, including the project's official documentation in 1995, which stated: "Apache is a cute name which stuck. But it conceded that the name "also makes a cute pun on 'a patchy web server'-a server made from a series of patches". This was in a context in which it seemed that the open internet - based on free exchange of open source code - appeared to be soon subjected to a kind of conquer by proprietary software vendor Microsoft Apache co-creator Brian Behlendorf - originator of the name - saw his effort somewhat parallel that of Geronimo, Chief of the last of the free Apache peoples. Name Īccording to The Apache Software Foundation, its name was chosen "from respect for the various Native American nations collectively referred to as Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance". According to W3Techs review of all web sites in June 2022 Apache was ranked second at 31.4% and Nginx first at 33.6%, with Cloudflare Server third at 21.6%. For some of Netcraft's other stats Nginx is ahead of Apache. Cloudflare at 19.53% and Microsoft Internet Information Services at 5.78% rounded out the top four. Īs of March 2022, Netcraft estimated that Apache served 23.04% of the million busiest websites, while Nginx servedĢ2.01%.
In 2009, it became the first web server software to serve more than 100 million websites. Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web, quickly overtaking NCSA HTTPd as the dominant HTTP server. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Past versions also ran on NetWare, OS/2 and other operating systems, including ports to mainframes. The vast majority of Apache HTTP Server instances run on a Linux distribution, but current versions also run on Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and a wide variety of Unix-like systems. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache HTTP Server ( / ə ˈ p æ tʃ i/ ə- PATCH-ee) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.
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