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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Julio Sergio <ju...@gmail.com> on 2012/03/05 23:35:48 UTC

[users@httpd] Re: What's the name of the http server on my Ubuntu: httpd or apache2?

Mathijs <mathijssch <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 
> The Debian/Ubuntu distributions, or rather their Apache HTTPD package 
maintainers, have renamed the binary to apache2, amongst other modifications. 
This was mainly done to differentiate between Apache 1.x and Apache 2.x, but its 
use is mostly void nowadays.
> Some other changes and layout peculiarities are listed 
here: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DebianDeb0rkification 
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Julio Sergio <juliosergio <at> gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I'm very puzzled with this simple question: the name of the http server is 
httpd
> or apache2?
> This is because, all apache documentation, in http.apache.org, refers to it as
> "httpd", however in my Ubuntu installation it appears to be "apache2".
> Were not I someone that has some idea of this, I would be certainly lost.
> I don't know who to blame for this: Apache, Ubuntu or both?
> Do you have any comments?
> Thanks,
> -Sergio.
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> -- Gr,Mathijs
> 

Thanks, Mathijs


-- Sergio.


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