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Host your own Apache web server

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Host your own Apache web server

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- [Instructor] Every single website you visit works thanks to a web server, a collection of software that takes information on a computer and allows your browser to view it and interact with it. There are many different software packages for hosting a web server including, NGINX and various others included with frameworks and languages like Node, Ruby on Rails and Python. In this episode, we'll take a look at setting up a basic web server with Apache. The Apache HTTP Server, usually just called Apache, is a free and open source server package that's very common across the web. Strictly speaking, to host a web server, all we need is a computer. But the whole point of a web server is that it allows people to access information. So, to make a server useful, that server needs to have internet or network access and in order for people to be able to visit the site, they need to know where to go. So, a web server needs a…

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