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Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally int

Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally intended to be a tribute to the Apache Native American peoples. The Wikipedia article on Apache (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server) includes a link to an interview with Brian Behlendorf (http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/ http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/) where he explains how the story arose.

venomsnake 12y ago
Common stuff between Linux and wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside.
- _ak 12y ago
  The 90's called, they want their terrible Linux-related jokes back.
  - runn1ng 12y ago
    "nginx inside" is just not so funny.
cbd1984 12y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/inf... > The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server. (April 1997) The new story is not consistent with what their website was saying not very long ago.
- eroncanc 12y ago
  For what it's worth, that description was on the site from Oct 1996 [1] to Aug 2001 [2]. 1.http://web.archive.org/web/19961028123412/http://www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/19961028123412/http://www.apache.... 2.http://web.archive.org/web/20010803130101/http://www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010803130101/http://www.apache....
- gaius 12y ago
  I was using web servers at the time, and the "a patchy server" story is what everyone said back then. Nowadays people take it all for granted but Apache was radical at the time, previously people had been running httpd out of inetd.conf (!)
royce 12y ago
I personally attended a talk presented by Brian Behlendorf at the ISPF (an early ISP conference) in 1999 (which predates the 2000 Linux Magazine article). In his talk, he used the "A Patchy Server" explanation. He made no mention of any other etymology that I recall. So either Brian was deliberately propagating the myth himself ... or maybe there's some retconning going on.

venomsnake 12y ago

Common stuff between Linux and wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside.

_ak 12y ago
The 90's called, they want their terrible Linux-related jokes back.
- runn1ng 12y ago
  "nginx inside" is just not so funny.

cbd1984 12y ago

http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/inf... > The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server. (April 1997) The new story is not consistent with what their website was saying not very long ago.

eroncanc 12y ago
For what it's worth, that description was on the site from Oct 1996 [1] to Aug 2001 [2]. 1.http://web.archive.org/web/19961028123412/http://www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/19961028123412/http://www.apache.... 2.http://web.archive.org/web/20010803130101/http://www.apache.org/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010803130101/http://www.apache....
gaius 12y ago
I was using web servers at the time, and the "a patchy server" story is what everyone said back then. Nowadays people take it all for granted but Apache was radical at the time, previously people had been running httpd out of inetd.conf (!)

royce 12y ago

I personally attended a talk presented by Brian Behlendorf at the ISPF (an early ISP conference) in 1999 (which predates the 2000 Linux Magazine article). In his talk, he used the "A Patchy Server" explanation. He made no mention of any other etymology that I recall. So either Brian was deliberately propagating the myth himself ... or maybe there's some retconning going on.