Apache features - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tutorial

- [Narrator] My primary motivation for covering Apache is that it is on the RHCE test. My secondary motivation for covering it is its market share. Odds are you will be running into Apache in the industry, so it's important to know. Even if you don't use Apache, people may reference it as a benchmark on how to create webservers. Apache is still a good webserver and has many wonderful features, even if some servers, like NGINX, have passed it in some areas. Apache's killer feature during the beginning of the web era was that it supported virtual hosts. This meant that it could host more than one website per physical machine. As silly as it sounds now, webservers used to host one website per physical machine until Apache changed that. Apache has access control at the user, host, and group levels. This provides a lot of control over who gets to access the website. Apache supports dynamically loaded modules. This allows it to be expanded with new functionality, or slimmed down if extra…