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The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software '''projects'''. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. '''We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users'''.

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As highlighted in the above (http://www.apache.org/ site introduction), Apache is a foundation that supports many projects.

For most people, the strongest association would be to the (http://httpd.apache.org/ Webserver) that is included with most of the Free Software distributions, and is also available for Unix and Windows (Win32).It is one of the best supported and featured webservers, with many modules (plugins) available.
The (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html FAQ) will answer the usual questions, along with the meaning behind the chosen name.

!!! Under:
* RedHat it is known as '''httpd''' - ''/etc/init.d/httpd'' 
** It's default location is at ''/var/www/html'' and ''/var/www/cgi-bin''
* [Debian] refers to it as '''apache''' - ''/etc/init.d/apache''
** or '''apache-perl''' - ''/etc/init.d/apache-perl''
** or '''apache-ssl''' - ''/etc/init.d/apache-ssl''  depending on it's selected capabilities.
** It's default location is at ''/var/www'' and ''/usr/lib/cgi-bin''