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| Implementing an Interactive Web Site with NetWare 6 |
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| March 2002 |
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| DeveloperNet University Course |
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Apache Web Server Overview
The Apache Web Server is an open-source code project that is based on NCSA HTTPD 1.3. The Apache server rivals and even surpasses most commercially available Web servers. Also, according to a Netcraft survey, Apache controls over 62% of the Web servers on the Internet.
Several products that ship with NetWare 6 rely on Apache. Some of these products are iFolder, Web Access, iManager, On Demand, Web Search, and Portal Services. If you buy a copy of NetWare 6, you will get a version of Apache specially tuned for NetWare. Current and previous versions of Apache are available at: http://httpd.apache.org/dist. You will be able to download Apache as source code or binary executables. In addition to NetWare 6, supported platforms also include Unix, Linux, Windows and others.
As stated before, if you buy NetWare 6, you will get a copy of Apache. If you are using NetWare 5.1, Apache for NetWare 5.1 must be downloaded from http://apache.org/ or http://developer.novell.com/. Apache for NetWare 5.1 does not currently ship with an installation program, so you need to copy the entire Apache directory structure to the root of a NetWare volume with NetWare 5.1.
The Apache Web Server, on NetWare, can be loaded into either kernel memory or protected memory. In this course we will learn how to do both, although loading Apache into protected memory has many advantages for the developer.
The Apache Web Server supports modules for expandability. Modules can be built directly into the Apache Server itself or implemented as external executables.
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