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Web Server Definition

A web server serves web pages to clients across the Internet or an Intranet. The web server hosts the pages, scripts, programs, and multimedia files and serves them using HTTP, a protocol designed to send files to web browsers and other protocols.

The most common webserver is Apache (available for all major operating systems) though IIS (Internet Information Server - available on the Windows Platform) is a fast growing web server.

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