The Apache Software Foundation has released an update to address a critical flaw in its hugely popular web server that allows remote attackers to take control of a vulnerable system. The first Apache ...

Have you wondered if the Apache Software Foundation is overextending itself while rivals like NGINX dig deeper into its core web server business? Consider this. The 17-year-old foundation -- whose ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Discover how to improve the performance of your Apache server configuration with the help of a must-use Perl script. Apache server software, out of the box, is impeccably well designed. By doing very ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. If you remember, ...

Recently, we took a look at the Caddy Web server. Today, we’re going to back things up a little bit and look at the A from the classic LAMP stack: the Apache Web server. Apache has a bad reputation ...

Many Apache Web servers, including those hosting some popular websites, expose information about the internal structure of the sites they host, the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of their visitors, ...

Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it. It’s time to go a little old-school and lay out how to enable the Common ...