Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since 1996. The Apache project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows NT.
What"s New:
- On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This improves scalability for many, but not all configurations
- The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on autoconf and libtool
- Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example
- The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0
- On systems where IPv6 is supported by the underlying Apache Portable Runtime library, Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default
- Apache modules may now be written as filters which act on the stream of content as it is delivered to or from the server
- Many confusing directives have been simplified