I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as company1.example.com and company2.example.com) on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be "IP-based", meaning ...

IP-based virtual hosting is a method to apply different directives based on the IP address and port a request is received on. Most commonly, this is used to serve different websites on different ports ...

I have an Apache server running a number of named virtual hosts that I want to use SSL with. Apache doesn't support named virtual hosts in the SSL configuration file, because of the way the protocols ...

Apache's HTTP web server is one of the most widely used web servers available today. The software is free and open-source, and it comes with a rich set of features. The Apache HTTP web server is also ...

VMware Labs has unveiled an extension module for Apache’s popular web server that runs WebAssembly binaries, opening new possibilities for languages and projects to run securely in Apache. The ...

While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Services (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. If you remember ...