The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain
an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX
and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure,
efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync
with the current HTTP standards.
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since
April of 1996. The February 2005 Netcraft Web Server Survey
found that more than 68% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache,
thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
The Apache HTTP Server is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.