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Developers describe Apache HTTP Server as "The most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996". 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. On the other hand, JBoss is detailed as "An open-source Java EE-based application server". An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity.

Apache HTTP Server and JBoss belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.

Apache HTTP Server is an open source tool with 2.21K GitHub stars and 657 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache HTTP Server's open source repository on GitHub.

Slack, MIT, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Apache HTTP Server, whereas JBoss is used by Kanteron Systems, Syonet, and Tarya P2P. Apache HTTP Server has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6193 company stacks & 1070 developers stacks; compared to JBoss, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Advice on Apache HTTP Server and JBoss

greg00m

Mar 9, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 210.9K views

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NGINX

Microsoft IIS

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Apache HTTP Server

I am diving into web development, both front and back end. I feel comfortable with administration, scripting and moderate coding in bash, Python and C++, but I am also a Windows fan (i love inner conflict). What are the votes on web servers? IIS is expensive and restrictive (has Windows adoption of open source changed this?) Apache has the history but seems to be at the root of most of my Infosec issues, and I know nothing about nginx (is it too new to rely on?). And no, I don't know what I want to do on the web explicitly, but hosting and data storage (both cloud and tape) are possibilities. Ready, aim fire!

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Simon Aronsson

Developer Advocate at k6 / Load Impact · Mar 10, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 205.3K views

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NGINX

I would pick nginx over both IIS and Apace HTTP Server any day. Combine it with docker, and as you grow maybe even traefik, and you'll have a really flexible solution for serving http content where you can take sites and projects up and down without effort, easily move it between systems and dont have to handle any dependencies on your actual local machine.

StackShare Editors

May 29, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 195.7K views

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Apache HTTP Server

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NGINX

From a StackShare Community member: "We are a LAMP shop currently focused on improving web performance for our customers. We have made many front-end optimizations and now we are considering replacing Apache with nginx. I was wondering if others saw a noticeable performance gain or any other benefits by switching."

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jlp78

May 31, 2019 | 3 upvotes · 197.3K views

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NGINX

I use nginx because it is very light weight. Where Apache tries to include everything in the web server, nginx opts to have external programs/facilities take care of that so the web server can focus on efficiently serving web pages. While this can seem inefficient, it limits the number of new bugs found in the web server, which is the element that faces the client most directly.

Leandro Barral

CIO at IkeCode · May 30, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 195.3K views

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NGINX

I use nginx because its more flexible and easy to configure

Christian Cwienk

Software Developer at SAP · May 31, 2019 | 1 upvotes · 194.8K views

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Apache HTTP Server

I use Apache HTTP Server because it's intuitive, comprehensive, well-documented, and just works

Decisions about Apache HTTP Server and JBoss

Hari Kishore

Mar 3, 2020 | 7 upvotes · 151.8K views

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Apache Tomcat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Apache HTTP Server

Ansible

I was in a situation where I have to configure 40 RHEL servers 20 each for Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat server. My task was to 1. configure LVM with required logical volumes, format and mount for HTTP and Tomcat servers accordingly. 2. Install apache and tomcat. 3. Generate and apply selfsigned certs to http server. 4. Modify default ports on Tomcat to different ports. 5. Create users on RHEL for application support team. 6. other administrative tasks like, start, stop and restart HTTP and Tomcat services.

I have utilized the power of ansible for all these tasks, which made it easy and manageable.

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Pros of Apache HTTP Server

Pros of JBoss

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Web server
305
Most widely-used web server
218
Virtual hosting
148
Fast
138
Ssl support
45
Since 1996
28
Asynchronous
5
Robust
4
Proven over many years
1
Mature
1
Perfect Support
1
Perfomance
0
Many available modules
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Many available modules

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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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Apache HTTP Server and JBoss?

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.

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.

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

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