Classnotes | UNIX02 | RecentChanges | Preferences Showing revision 1 Apache is a cross-platform HTTP web server. It's been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The August 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
The Apache project is really a collection of web-server related applications. It includes modules for running various scripting languages (such as Perl, PHP, TCL) as web-site backends, and a Java-based server-side environment.
Java typically is notorious for being slow and inefficient. However, Jakarta Tomcat (a Java servlet engine, part of The Apache project) was found to produce the most efficient and speedy server-side applications out of everything else (including Perl, PHP and ASP).
