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The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant
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web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP
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Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the
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Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the
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developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust,
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commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
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Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
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server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
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The documentation available as of the date of this release is
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included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
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up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at
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<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/>.
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Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be
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found in README.platforms.
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Please see the file called LICENSE.
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security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server
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subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under
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<http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce>
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Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at
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<http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> or one of the following
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comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
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comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
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<http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers>
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o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact
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one of the companies and contractors which are listed at
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<http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi>
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o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the
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Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report:
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<http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>
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We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
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make up portions of the Apache software:
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Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
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for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
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Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
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Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
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modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
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Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
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Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
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is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
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University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
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ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
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Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide