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Web server

The term web server can mean one of two things:

1. a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers;
2. a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents.

Every web server (sense 1) is running a web server program (sense 2).

The most common web or HTTP server programs are:

• Apache HTTP Server from the Apache Software Foundation
• Internet Information Server (IIS) from Microsoft
• Sambar Server from Sambar Technologies
• Caudium (formerly Roxen)
• AOLserver from America Online
• thttpd from ACME Laboratories
• Zeus Web Server from Zeus Technology
• Sun ONE from Sun Microsystems (formerly Netscape's iPlanet nee Enterprise)
• iPlanet from Netscape Communications Corporation
• WebSTAR from 4D, Inc.
• Stronghold from Red Hat
• Microsoft Windows PWS
• BEA Weblogic
• Caucho Resin

The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 67% of market share as of May 2004, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.

Other HTTP servers include:

• NCSA HTTPd from NCSA (historically-notable software)

Current web-server statistics can be obtained from the Netcraft Web Server Survey.

See also

• Virtual hosting

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