Introduction to web server

A web server is a computer on the World Wide Web that stores Html documents that can be retrieved via a Web browser. It is a computer that delivers web pages. Each web server has an IP address and a domain name. For example when we enter a URL http://www.roseindia.net/index.shtml in your browser, this sends a request to the server whose domain name is roseindia.net. The web server will fetch the index.shtml page and sends it to your browser. 

A web browser takes a client request, finds the resource and sends the response to the client. A resource can be a HTML file, a picture (JPEG File), a sound file, or even a PDF document. If the user demands the resource that is not available then the server will send the error code “404 Not Found”. One of the most popular web server is Apache. Apache web server has been called the engine of the WWW. It is one of the most successful open- source application ever. It is available free of cost. To know more about  the web server click on the link web server.

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