what does apache do?

I was wondering, since apache was a server, what exactly does it do? Does it allow you to host your own website? or just test PHP scripts?

Well with appache you can host your own local website though a wonderful program called xampp.

i think its the programme that 'broadcasts' your server to the rest of the world, basically it says 'hello world' lol

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Or just use OS X which has Apache built in!

apache is a web server.

At a basic level when someone requests a web page from your server apache is the program that listens for the requests and sends the correct html page back.

At a more advanced level apache can also serve php pages.

The normal OS that apache operates on is linux/unix but is available on mac os x or on windows.

As of March 2007 Apache served 58% of all websites.

I use Xampp which includes Apache. I use my Apache to check my site on my local computer. http:localhost is a great little tool. That way I don't have to pull my site up and down from my host server. And even better, they use Apache.

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Nah, xampp is much better. Also Sara, just for fun...lol, you can edit your httpconfig file and change the URL to which you access you local site over your network. I changed mine to http://server/ and http://localhost/ and http://domains/ each go to a directory within xampp, ahh so much fun!

Thanks for the info, Jacob...I will try that.

maybe i should try using apache