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Apache is weird. I'd imagine it's probably the most web server on the planet? Maybe second to nginx but it hasn't really mattered much for a long time. Guess it
by mdgrech23 6y ago
Apache is weird. I'd imagine it's probably the most web server on the planet? Maybe second to nginx but it hasn't really mattered much for a long time. Guess it's probably b/c most ppl aren't configuring it themselves anymore and have moved on to different hosting setups.
- rgoulter 6y ago"Apache" here refers to the Apache Software Foundation, rather than specifically the Apache Server.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI mostly reach for nginx as well, but apache2 is awfully nice for certain cases where you really do just want a simple, batteries-included setup for some task. I hit one of these a few years ago when I set up a code search tool at my org and the IT department wanted a reverse proxy in front of it that would do basic auth against our AD/LDAP backend. On nginx, this was going to require either recompiling the whole server to enable to some non-default module, or delegating the auth to a separate script/process that appeared like it was going to be painful to set up, or implementing the whole thing in lua. On Apache, it was a 10 line config file and I've never had to think about it again. (And yes, I know the article is about the ASF and not httpd, but I just wanted to respond to this comment in particular.)