1 2 Apache HTTP Server 3 4 What is it? 5 ----------- 6 7 The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant 8 web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP 9 Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the 10 Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the 11 developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust, 12 commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available 13 source code. 14 15 The Latest Version 16 ------------------ 17 18 Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP 19 server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>. 20 21 Documentation 22 ------------- 23 24 The documentation available as of the date of this release is 25 included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most 26 up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at 27 <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/>. 28 29 Installation 30 ------------ 31 32 Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be 33 found in README.platforms. 34 35 Licensing 36 --------- 37 38 Please see the file called LICENSE. 39 40 Cryptographic Software Notice 41 ----------------------------- 42 43 This distribution may include software that has been designed for use 44 with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside 45 may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export 46 to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption 47 software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies 48 concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption 49 software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> 50 for more information. 51 52 The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and 53 Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity 54 Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security 55 software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric 56 algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation 57 distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception 58 ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS 59 Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object 60 code and source code. 61 62 The following provides more details on the included files that 63 may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software: 64 65 Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under 66 modules/ssl/ 67 for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted 68 network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption 69 library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific 70 SSL facilities. 71 72 In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface 73 for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory 74 srclib/apr-util/ssl/ 75 that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as 76 OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities. 77 Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface. 78 79 Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the 80 word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the 81 OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from 82 <http://www.openssl.org/source/>. 83 84 The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic 85 functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution. 86 Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl" 87 in the package name have been created without the above files and are 88 therefore not subject to this notice. 89 90 Contacts 91 -------- 92 93 o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, 94 security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server 95 subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under 96 <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce> 97 98 o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the 99 Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at 100 <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> or one of the following 101 USENET newsgroups: 102 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix 103 comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows 104 Also available at: 105 <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers> 106 107 o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact 108 one of the companies and contractors which are listed at 109 <http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi> 110 111 o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the 112 Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report: 113 <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html> 114 115 o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please 116 subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at 117 <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev> 118 119 Acknowledgments 120 ---------------- 121 122 We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that 123 make up portions of the Apache software: 124 125 Portions of this software were developed at the National Center 126 for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of 127 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 128 129 This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security 130 Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various 131 modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and 132 Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore). 133 134 Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which 135 is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the 136 University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from 137 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/ 138 139 Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide 140 a build environment. 141