That will give you the result of each variable like (if the file is serverindices.php at the root and Apache Web directory is in E: web): PHPSELF /serverindices.php argv - argc - GATEWAYINTERFACE CGI/1.1 SERVERADDR 127.0.0.1 SERVERNAME localhost SERVERSOFTWARE Apache/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP/5.3.13.
- Launch an EC2 instance Install an Apache web server with PHP Connect your Apache web server to your DB instance Create an EC2 instance and install a web server In this step, you create a web server to connect to the Amazon RDS DB instance that you created in Create a DB instance.
- Apache 2 is a very admin-friendly web server to configure and manage. Although one would think executing PHP would be an out-of-the box feature, it's a very easy issue to resolve. Happy Apache'ing!
Apache is a popular open-source, cross-platform web server that is, by the numbers, the most popular web server in existence. It’s actively maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.
Some high-profile companies using Apache include Cisco, IBM, Salesforce, General Electric, Adobe, VMware, Xerox, LinkedIn, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Siemens, eBay, and many more (source).
In addition to its popularity, it’s also one of the oldest web servers, with its first release all the way back in 1995. Many cPanel hosts utilize Apache today. Like other web servers, Apache powers the behind-the-scenes aspects of serving your website’s files to visitors.
Because Apache doesn’t perform as well in some benchmarks, especially for static websites or websites with high traffic, Kinsta uses the NGINX web server instead of Apache. Though NGINX hasn’t been around for as long as Apache, it’s quickly grown in popularity and market share since its launch in 2004.
How Does Apache Work? Web Server Basics Explained
While there’s a lot of complexity underpinning how a web server functions, the basic job of all web servers is to accept requests from clients (e.g. a visitor’s web browser) and then send the response to that request (e.g. the components of the page that a visitor wants to see).
The Apache web server has modules which add more functions to its software, such as MPM (for handling multi-processing modes) or mod_ssl for enabling SSL v3 and TLS support (suggested reading: TLS vs SSL). Some common features seen in Apache include:
- IPv6
- FTP
- Perl, Lua, and PHP
- Bandwidth throttling
- WebDAV
- Load balancing
- URL rewriting
- Session tracking
- Geolocation based on IP address
While a web server is an essential part of any website, it’s important to note that casual WordPress users are unlikely to interact with their web server directly most of the time.
Apache vs Nginx Usage Stats
When you look at every single website on the Internet, Apache is the most popular web server. It powers 47% of the websites with a known web server, according to W3Techs.
However, Apache’s usage greatly drops when you start looking at the web’s most highly trafficked sites. Apache only powers:
- 27.1% of the 100,000 most popular sites
- 21.5% of the 10,000 most popular sites
- 16.2% of the 1,000 most popular sites
This drop-off likely stems, at least in part, from Apache’s lower benchmarks for high traffic websites.
Conversely, NGINX, the web server that Kinsta uses, is used by a majority of high-traffic sites, powering:
- 56.1% of the 100,000 most popular sites
- 63.2% of the 10,000 most popular sites
- 57% of the 1,000 most popular sites
If you check the Google Search trends since 2004, you can see this trend play out where Apache’s popularity (as a search term) is decreasing while NGINX’s is creeping up.
How To Check Which Web Server You’re Using
If you want to see whether you’re using Apache or NGINX, you can often (but not always) look at your site’s HTTP header.
To view your site’s HTTP header, you can:
- Use the Network tab of Chrome Developer Tools
- Use a tool like Pingdom or GTmetrix
Apache HTTP header
This method may not work if you’re using a service like Cloudflare, though.
Apache Http Server Pdf
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In this tutorial we are going to learn how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 server as a web server using the Ubuntu LAMP stack, which includes the Apache web server, PHP programming Language and MySQL/MariaDB Database Server.
We will start by installing and configuring Apache web server, then we will install PHP, MySQL Server and phpMyAdmin web interface.
Install and Configure Apache web server on Ubuntu 18.04
Apache is the most popular and stable web server for Ubuntu Linux. The Apache HTTP server for Ubuntu 18 provided by the apache2 package. To install apache2 on Ubuntu, open the terminal and execute:
That is all you need to do. Now, open a web browser from a remote computer and type the IP address of your Ubuntu server in the address bar.
You will get the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page.
- The apache2.conf file is the main configuration file which you can find under the /etc/apache2/ directory.
- The /var/www/html is the default DocumentRoot, You can immediately serve static HTML website by putting the contents (e.g. HTML, images, CSS, JavaScript and etc.) into the /var/www/html directory.
Creating Apache Virtual Hosts
Virtual Hosting are a way of serving multiple websites from a single server. Every website will have their own configuration and separate Document Root to host website contents.
Creating an Apache Virtual Host is a simple task. For this demonstration, I am going to create a new virtual host for the example.com domain. The /var/www/example.com directory going to be the DocumentRoot.
First create the DocumentRoot:
Create the Virtual Host configuration file inside the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ folder (Filename must end with '.conf' extension).
Add following VirtualHost configuration:
Save the file, enable the new site and reload the Apache web server:
And now our web server is ready to serve www.example.com website. Of Course we still don't have anything in our DocumentRoot and you also need to configure DNS records to point your domain name to the server IP address.
Apache Http Server Php Tutorial
To test virtual host without DNS, create an index.html file inside the DocumentRoot and entry to the hosts file on your local computer, pointing www.example.com to your Ubuntu server IP address.
Apache Http Server Port
Install PHP programming Language
PHP is a programming language for developing web applications and essential part of the Ubuntu LAMP Stack. To install PHP on Ubuntu 18.04, Run:
The php package will install the 'php7.2' as well as 'libapache2-mod-php7.2' module that required to work with Ubuntu Apache web server.
After the installation is complete, we need to restart the apache server:
To test the PHP installation, create an index.php file under the /var/www/html folder and add the phpinfo() function:
Then access the index.php by typing http://your-server-ip/index.php in the web browser (e.g. 192.168.1.100/index.php). You should get information page that displays PHP configuration settings on your Ubuntu 18.04 Server.
Install MySQL Server on Ubuntu 18.04
Next, we are going to install MySQL Server as our Database server. Installing MySQL Server on Ubuntu 18.04 is straightforward. Open the terminal update the package list and install the mysql-server package:
(If you want to Install MariaDB, install the mariadb-server package instead of mysql-server package).
After the installation has finished, Log in to the MySQL console with the following command:
Note that the MySQL server on Ubuntu use auth_socket plugin to authenticate mysql root and does not need a password for connecting as a root user. If you want to enable password authentication, click on the following link to learn how to set the MySQL root password on Ubuntu 18.04.
Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04
phpMyAdmin is a web based graphical user interface to manage MySQL/MariaDB Database server. To install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 Server, Run:
When asked to choose web server that should be automatically configured to run phpMyAdmin, select apache2 by pressing the space bar on the keyboard.
After the installation completes, you can access phpMyAdmin at http://server-ip/phpmyadmin or http://domain-name/phpmyadmin.
Download ite input devices driver. Now you have a fully functional web server up and running with Apache, MySQL and PHP programming language.
Summary
In this tutorial we learned how to install Lamp stack on Ubuntu 18.04 server. The LAMP stack stands for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP, it is a web hosting platform for Linux to server web pages using http protocol.
What Next? Next we are going to learn how to install vsftpd on Ubuntu 18.04. You can also read our WordPress installation guide, WordPress is the most popular content management system and most of websites on the internet is powered by WordPress.