Monday, August 2, 2010

Know a web server

Web server is a server software that functions accept HTTP or HTTPS requests from clients who called with a web browser and sends the results back in the form of web pages are typically in the form of an HTML document. Web servers are known to include Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
Apache (Apache HTTP Server or Web Server / Apache WWW) is a web server that can run on many operating systems (Unix, BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware and other platforms) that allows you to serve and enable the web site. A protocol used to serve the facility of web / www uses HTTP.

While IIS or Internet Information Server is an HTTP web server used in the Windows Server operating systems, ranging from Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008. Integrate the service is a service in Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003, Windows Server, 2008 or as an add-on in Windows NT Server. This service serves as a support TCP / IP protocol that runs the application layer. IIS also be the foundation of the Internet and Intranet Microsoft platforms, including Microsoft Site Server, Microsoft Commercial Internet System Microsoft and other products BackOffice.