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<TITLE>Apache Overview HOWTO: Introduction</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>This document gives you an overview of the Apache world, including
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Apache Software Foundation projects such as the Apache web server
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and commercial and open source third party software. Apache is the
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<A HREF="http://www.netcraft.com/survey/">most popular server on the Internet</A>. New Apache users, especially those
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coming from a Windows background, are often unaware of the possibilities of
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Apache, its useful addons and, more in general, how everything works
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together. This document aims to show a general picture of such possibilities
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with a brief description of each one and pointers for further information.
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The information has been gathered from many sources, including projects' web
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pages, conference talks, mailing lists, Apache websites and my own hands-on
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experience. Full credit is given to these authors. Without them and
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their work, this document would not have been possible or necessary.
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<P>Copyright 2002 Daniel Lopez Ridruejo
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<P>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the Open Content Open Publication License, Version
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1.1. A copy of the license is included in the appendix entitled "Open
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Content Open Publication License", or at www.opencontent.org/openpub/.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Apache Software Foundation</A>
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<P><EM>The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of
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open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a
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collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic
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software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads
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the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects
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sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.</EM>
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<P>The ASF is home to many successful Open Source projects, such as the
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Tomcat Servlet/JSP engine and the ANT build tool.
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<P>You can learn more about the foundation
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<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/foundation/">here</A>.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 Structure of this document</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The first part of this document deals with the Apache Web Server and
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related modules. It covers the history, architecture and capabilities of the
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server and describes ways in which you can extend and customize it.
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<P>The second part of this document covers projects of the Apache Software
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Foundation, such as those form the Jakarta and Java XML communities. Rather
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than organizing the projects around a certain programming language or
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technology, they are organized based on functionality provided.
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