Why developers like Apache HTTP Server

What is Apache HTTP Server?

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

Apache HTTP Server is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.

Apache HTTP Server is an open source tool with 3.6K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache HTTP Server's open source repository on GitHub

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Who uses Apache HTTP Server?

Companies

37840 companies reportedly use Apache HTTP Server in their tech stacks, including Slack, LinkedIn, and Delivery Hero.

Slack

Delivery Hero

The New York Times

Glovo

Accenture

Mollie

Intuit

trivago

Developers

26090 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache HTTP Server.

Evandro Magalhães

Hitalo Silva

OpenBLOOD

Taylor Berg's Stack

Vishwajeet Vatharkar

Scott Tactical

yoshi-iketani

Adphorus

Malachai

Apache HTTP Server Integrations

Datadog, ASP.NET Core, Passenger, Honeycomb, and StreamSets are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache HTTP Server. Here's a list of all 22 tools that integrate with Apache HTTP Server.

Datadog

ASP.NET Core

Passenger

Honeycomb

StreamSets

SignalFx

mod_perl

Beego

CanvasJS

Pros of Apache HTTP Server

479

Web server

305

Most widely-used web server

217

Virtual hosting

148

Fast

138

Ssl support

Since 1996

Asynchronous

Robust

Proven over many years

Mature

Perfomance

Perfect Support

Many available modules

Decisions about Apache HTTP Server

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Apache HTTP Server in their tech stack.

Dan Platon

PHP Software Developer · Feb 5, 2022 | 5 upvotes · 204.9K views

Needs advice

PrestaShop

Sylius

and

Symfony

I'm looking to build an eCommerce website and seeking advice from professionals on the most reliable tech stack that I can use. Currently, the website is built on top of WordPress with WooCommerce, but the company has grown up, and evidently, the number of products have been increased. The site needs a fresh code because WordPress doesn't make it anymore.

The stack I'm most familiar with is PHP + Symfony + MySQL + Apache HTTP Server or NGINX. Headless eCommerce is the one I'm looking for, because of the huge complexity, it would be great to separate the backend from the frontend. Not sure about CMSs, because they had a huge amount of functionality that the application doesn't need. I've been looking also at PrestaShop, it seems ok, but not sure about customization and front-end integration. As a custom solution, I have found Sylius or Aimeos for the backend, but I'm not too sure about a frontend stack.

Could you please give some suggestions about the frontend stack and if the ones for the backend are ok?

Brenda Mejak

May 27, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 410.1K views

Needs advice

Apache HTTP Server

Microsoft IIS

and

NGINX

I am currently in school for computer science and am doing a class project about web servers. Our assignment is to research and select one of these web servers. Could you please let me know which one you would choose among NGINX, Microsoft IIS, and Apache HTTP Server and why?

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Apache HTTP Server Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apache HTTP Server?

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

JBoss

An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity.

Jetty

Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.

XAMPP

It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

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