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- Apache HTTP Server
- What is it?
- -----------
- The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
- web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
- Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
- Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
- developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
- commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
- source code.
- The Latest Version
- ------------------
- Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
- server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
- Documentation
- -------------
- The documentation available as of the date of this release is
- included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
- up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/>.
- Installation
- ------------
- Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be
- found in README.platforms.
- Licensing
- ---------
- Please see the file called LICENSE.
- Cryptographic Software Notice
- -----------------------------
- This distribution may include software that has been designed for use
- with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside
- may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export
- to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption
- software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies
- concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption
- software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/>
- for more information.
- The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and
- Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity
- Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security
- software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric
- algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation
- distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception
- ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS
- Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object
- code and source code.
- The following provides more details on the included files that
- may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software:
- Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under
- modules/ssl/
- for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted
- network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption
- library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific
- SSL facilities.
- In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface
- for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory
- srclib/apr-util/ssl/
- that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as
- OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities.
- Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface.
- Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the
- word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the
- OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from
- <http://www.openssl.org/source/>.
- The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic
- functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution.
- Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl"
- in the package name have been created without the above files and are
- therefore not subject to this notice.
- Contacts
- --------
- o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
- security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server
- subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under
- <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce>
- o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the
- Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> or one of the following
- USENET newsgroups:
- comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
- comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
- Also available at:
- <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers>
- o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact
- one of the companies and contractors which are listed at
- <http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi>
- o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the
- Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
- <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>
- o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please
- subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev>
- Acknowledgments
- ----------------
- We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
- make up portions of the Apache software:
- Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
- for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
- Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
- modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
- Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
- Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
- is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
- University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
- ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
- Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
- a build environment.
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