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• In this post, we will look at the steps to launch HTTPD Server on AWS EC2 Instance and start serving HTML pages. AWS EC2 (also known as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) provides scalable computing capacity on-demand. It is a core component of Amazon Web Services. You can think of AWS EC2 as a server that you pay for based on your usage.

NCSA HTTPd

Original author(s)	Robert McCool
Developer(s)	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Initial release	1993; 28 years ago
Stable release
Available in	English
Type	Web server
Website	hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Apache HTTPD Is An HTTPserverdaemon Produced By The Apache Foundation. It Is A Piece Of Software That Listens For Network Requests (which Are Expre...

NCSA HTTPd is an early, now discontinued, web server originally developed at the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by Robert McCool and others.^[1] First released in 1993, it was among the earliest web servers developed, following Tim Berners-Lee's CERN httpd, Tony Sanders' Plexus server, and some others. It was for some time the natural counterpart to the Mosaicweb browser in the client–serverWorld Wide Web. It also introduced the Common Gateway Interface, allowing for the creation of dynamic websites.

After Robert McCool left NCSA in mid-1994, the development of NCSA HTTPd slowed greatly. An independent effort, the Apache project, took the codebase and continued; meanwhile, NCSA released one more version (1.5), then ceased development. In August 1995, NCSA HTTPd powered most of all web servers on the Internet;^[2] nearly all of them quickly switched over to Apache. By April 1996, Apache passed NCSA HTTPd as the No. 1 server on the Internet, and retained that position until mid-to-late 2016.^[2]

Apache is a world’s most popular, cross platform HTTP web server that is commonly used in Linux and Unix platforms to deploy and run web applications or websites. Importantly, it’s easy to install and has a simple configuration as well. Read Also: How to Hide Apache Version Number and Other Sensitive Info.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'NCSA HTTPd Acknowledgements'. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^ ^ab'Web Server Survey | Netcraft'. news.netcraft.com. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

External links[edit]

• The NCSA HTTPd Home Page (a mirror site of the official one)^{[dead link]}
• NCSA software and technologies (with HTTPd mentioned)
• The NCSA HTTPd homepage on the Internet Archive (as of 2007-10-29)

NOTE WELL: We no longer maintain the CERN httpd. In particular,there is at least one known Y2K-relatedbug in the latest (July 1996) releaseof this software.

In May 1996, we releasedJigsaw, W3C's leading-edge Webserver platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a varietyof other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java.

The CERN httpd (also known as W3C httpd) is a generic public domain full-featuredhypertext server which can be used as a regular HTTP server. The server istypically running on port 80 to serve hypertext and other documents but itcan also serve as a proxy -- a server on a firewall machine -- that providesaccess for people inside a firewall to the outside world. When running asproxy httpd may be configured to do caching of documents resulting in fasterresponse times.

Authors

Ari Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Tim Berners-Lee

Status

Version 3.0A is the final version. It was generated July 15 1996. We may give out security patches but future server work has been moved to the Java based Jigsaw server. You can also read the W3C position statement on the CERN server

Platforms

The server runs on most Unix platforms. See also the VMS version.

Getting the Source Code

The latest source code is available in the following formats:

You can also browse through the latest source files on our server!

A packet contains the following components:

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• The code definitions (*.c)
• The interface definitions (*.h)
• A Makefile for building the daemon

You can see how to unpack and compile the software in the README file, and you can find more information on how to install the daemon in the Installation Guide and how to use it in the User's Guide.

Copyright

W3C httpd is covered by the MIT Copyright Statement, and with acknowledgement to CERN

Patches, Bug fixes, etc..

When you have modifications and want them to go into our code base then please fill out the form for Corrections, Modifications, and Patches and send it to us. Otherwise we can not use the patch!

More information

• Httpd Utilities: htadm, htimage, cgiparse and cgiutils

Features include

• Can act as proxy server for HTTP, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, News, etc if needed
• Can perform caching when running as a proxy
• Forms and clickable image support; see demo.
• Index search interface as a CGI/1.0 script.
• Provides protection against unauthorized access.
• Automatically generates hypertext view of directory tree
• Uses 'README' files to document directory listings
• Configurable file suffix <=> content type mapping
• Handles multiple file formats, encodings and languages of same file, selects format apropriate for client capabilities
• Document name to filename mapping for longer-lived document names

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