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Apache Server

The Apache server developed as a side project when the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) web server program dissolved in 1998. It was led by Robert McCool who continued to develop the server after leaving the NCSA. It is a UNIX based server with open source coding which has allowed it to rapidly increase in popularity.

The Apache server got it name, not from Geronimo’s tribe, but from the way the NCSA left all the work that had been done on it. There were many little programs (patches) that helped the server function better but they were located on different computers in different locations, a patchy server. It still worked incredibly well.

Over half of internet activity is conducted on the Apache server. It was originally very UNIX based, but with the development of Apache 2 which offered more cross platform functionality. It mainly offered increased usability for Windows based programs as well as faster speeds. It is mostly used to serve dynamic, as well as static websites.

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