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 ...

Apache has just released its first major new version of its Web server in six years. "It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of Apache HTTP Server 2.4", said Eric Covener, Vice ...

Have you wondered if the Apache Software Foundation is overextending itself while rivals like NGINX dig deeper into its core web server business? Consider this. The 17-year-old foundation -- whose ...

Apache Tomcat 7.0, the latest version of the popular open source Java Web server, is available Tuesday from the Apache Software Foundation. The upgrade constitutes the first major release of the ...

The Apache open-source project patched its Web server software Tuesday to quash a bug that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool has been exploiting. Apache 2.2.20, released Tuesday, plugs the hole used by ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. Since a single ...

Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. Commercialized web servers were the first part of the Internet to make the jump from service providers to ...

Recently, I was asked to reorganize some of our Web applications to improve their stability. The major push was to get each of our applications running in its own instance of Tomcat. These ...

When you deploy a web application, how do end users access it? Often web applications are set behind a gateway device through which end users can access it. One of the popular products to act as an ...

Our Linux server (running IBM’s Apache 2-based HTTP server) is having trouble installing PHP support so we can try the PHP-Nuke content management software as a customer service portal. We can’t get ...