NCSA HTTPd
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
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Initial release | 1993 |
Stable release | 1.5
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Available in | English |
Type | Web server |
Website | hoohoo![]() |
NCSA HTTPd is an early, now discontinued,
client–server World Wide Web. It also introduced the Common Gateway Interface
, allowing for the creation of dynamic websites.
After Robert McCool left NCSA in mid-1994, the development of NCSA HTTPd slowed greatly. An independent effort, the Apache project, took the codebase and continued; meanwhile, NCSA released one more version (1.5), then ceased development. In August 1995, NCSA HTTPd powered most of all web servers on the Internet;[2] nearly all of them quickly switched over to Apache. By April 1996, Apache passed NCSA HTTPd as the No. 1 server on the Internet, and retained that position until mid-to-late 2016.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "NCSA HTTPd Acknowledgements". Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.
- ^ a b "Web Server Survey | Netcraft". news.netcraft.com. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
External links
- The NCSA HTTPd homepage
- The NCSA HTTPd Home Page (a mirror site of the official one) [dead link]
- NCSA software and technologies (with HTTPd mentioned)
- The NCSA HTTPd homepage on the Internet Archive (as of 2007-10-29)
- NCSA HTTPd source code (NCSA source code on GitHub)