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  1. Apache HTTP Server
  2. What is it?
  3. -----------
  4. The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
  5. web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
  6. Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
  7. Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
  8. developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
  9. commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
  10. source code.
  11. The Latest Version
  12. ------------------
  13. Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
  14. server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
  15. Documentation
  16. -------------
  17. The documentation available as of the date of this release is
  18. included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
  19. up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at
  20. <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/>.
  21. Installation
  22. ------------
  23. Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be
  24. found in README.platforms.
  25. Licensing
  26. ---------
  27. Please see the file called LICENSE.
  28. Cryptographic Software Notice
  29. -----------------------------
  30. This distribution may include software that has been designed for use
  31. with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside
  32. may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export
  33. to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption
  34. software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies
  35. concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption
  36. software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/>
  37. for more information.
  38. The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and
  39. Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity
  40. Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security
  41. software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric
  42. algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation
  43. distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception
  44. ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS
  45. Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object
  46. code and source code.
  47. The following provides more details on the included files that
  48. may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software:
  49. Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under
  50. modules/ssl/
  51. for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted
  52. network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption
  53. library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific
  54. SSL facilities.
  55. In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface
  56. for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory
  57. srclib/apr-util/ssl/
  58. that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as
  59. OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities.
  60. Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface.
  61. Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the
  62. word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the
  63. OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from
  64. <http://www.openssl.org/source/>.
  65. The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic
  66. functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution.
  67. Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl"
  68. in the package name have been created without the above files and are
  69. therefore not subject to this notice.
  70. Contacts
  71. --------
  72. o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
  73. security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server
  74. subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under
  75. <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce>
  76. o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the
  77. Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at
  78. <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> or one of the following
  79. USENET newsgroups:
  80. comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
  81. comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
  82. Also available at:
  83. <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers>
  84. o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact
  85. one of the companies and contractors which are listed at
  86. <http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi>
  87. o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the
  88. Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
  89. <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>
  90. o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please
  91. subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at
  92. <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev>
  93. Acknowledgments
  94. ----------------
  95. We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
  96. make up portions of the Apache software:
  97. Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
  98. for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
  99. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  100. This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
  101. Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
  102. modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
  103. Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
  104. Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
  105. is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
  106. University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
  107. ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
  108. Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
  109. a build environment.