Web server software accepts and responds to HTTP requests from web browsers, known as clients. It serves HTTP responses and optional data contents, usually HTML documents and linked objects such as images. It is also used for logging detailed information on client requests and server responses.
Kinds of Web Server Software include the following:
Apache web server software
The Apache web server software is a free or “open source” software. It is the most popular server software. It has approximately 70% of the market share.
Microsoft web server software
The Microsoft web server software is responsible for the various IIS (Internet Information Server) and PWS (Personal Web Server) versions. It has approximately 20% of the market share.
Sun web server software
The Sun web server software is specially designed to work with Netscape browsers. It has around 3% of the market share.
Security: For security purposes, choose web server software that allows optional authorization requests using usernames and passwords before allowing access to the system.
Support: Choose web server software that can handle not only static content but dynamic content as well. It should support one or more related interfaces such as CGI, SSI, FastCGI, SCGI. ASP .NET, ASP, PHP, and Server API.
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