# Apache HTTP Server

Apache is a foundation with a lot of projects
- Tomcat, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, etc
Though their HTTP Server is amongst the most prominent of their projects

Flexible configuration — .htaccess per-directory config, virtual hosts, dynamic module loading
Security — TLS/SSL, authentication modules, fine-grained access control
Performance — Multi-processing (MPMs), HTTP/2, content caching, reverse proxy
Extensibility — 100+ modules for rewriting, proxying, load balancing, scripting, and more
Portability — runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and most Unix-like systems

## Simple Usecase

Serving a static html site.
put in a folder, put that folder in the config file
then start the server service daemon


## Why it's so good.

It single handedly carried the dot com bubble.

### Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs)

### Reverse Proxy

- Failover

### Caching


## Fancy Demo

    Make a demo server with a simple social media app with just three paths. PHP.