From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 25 8:53:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from lanshark.lanminds.com (lanshark.lanminds.com [208.25.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F281D37B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from drtboi.lmi.net (drtboi.lanminds.com [207.33.49.4]) by lanshark.lanminds.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA23325; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:53:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.4 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010125112704.009f1cb0@pop.uky.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:07:22 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Meister To: James Polly Subject: RE: how apache works... Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Jan-2001 James Polly wrote: > Knowing that Apache is a web server, and knowing that it is very widely > used, how exactly is it used, and how does it work? > I suggest you check out http://www.apache.org In particular http://www.apache.org/httpd Also, if you download the source and check out the default configuration files, you will find they are very well-documented (look at httpd.conf). As a brief, and perhaps mis-focused answer to your question (which was a tad vague), Apache runs as a daemon on a *nix server (FreeBSD, Linux, HP/UX, whatever). It reads config information from a file called httpd.conf, which can be specified on the apache command line (something to the effect of /httpd -f /httpd.conf). It is very easy to compile and install (though you should, of course, read all documentation, first). I managed to have my first web server up and running, back when I could barely install FreeBSD on my own, in a few hours. -Todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message