From owner-freebsd-www Wed Aug 13 10:59:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16218 for www-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16213 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01157; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:59:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache In-Reply-To: <33F29A0B.42F6@concentric.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Steve wrote: > I just heard about Apache and was wondering what it's about. > Can you tell me what it is? I couldn't really understand it on Apache's > homepage... Apache is the actual HTTP server that runs on your machine, that browsers contact when they want pages from your computer. It's the brains behind the entire Web operation. > Do I get a free web space or something? Well, if you have a FreeBSD (or other UNIX) machine with sufficient disk space and a link to the outside world, you can run Apache and make your own "free" web space. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo