Elite Guide has posted a new guide: How to install and run an HTTP server on Windows

First of all, what is Apache and why would I want it? Well, the first part is easy enough: “The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. (Apache Website)” In other words, Apache is a free program that turns your computer into a HTTP Web server. Now you may say, “Ok, that is wonderful… but why would I want to do that?” Well, there are a myriad of reasons someone may want to have a Web server, including: having a private website, hosting a site for yourself or someone else, testing purposes, or just for the fun of fooling around and learning from it. For the sake of argument, I’ll assume you fall into one of those categories, or perhaps you have your own reason.

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