Sunday, October 21, 2012

Introduction to Webserver


Web server is a software which delivers web content (static & dynamic) that can be accessed over Internet.

Or you can define as below too:

A website is a collection of the digital pages written using the Hyper text Mark up language (HTML). For a website to be available , it should be hosted on a computer which is connected to internet. Additionally it requires a program which should be installed on the computer known as a web server.

Web servers are able to map the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)into:
  1. A file/resource located on the local disk (static content)
  1. It can reference a program (Internal or external) for dynamic content

A web server waits for the requests from the browsers (Clients) and responds with data back. There are many web server programs available in the market. The most famous one is Apache HTTP Server.

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