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web server

Also known as tm server, WWW server, W3 server

computer software that distributes web pages

AI overview

A web server is computer software that stores and sends out web pages to people who request them over the internet. It matters because without web servers, the websites you visit wouldn't be able to reach your device.

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Vinony's link graph records 805 inbound references to web server, and connects out to URL, HTTP and list of HTTP status codes.

Vinony files it under Data center technology, English inventions and Servers (computing).

Vinony links it to 71 Wikipedia language editions.

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Image: First Web Server.jpg

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Commons category: Web server
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/webserver

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Encyclopedic overview

PC clients communicating via the network with a web server serving static content only The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. Servers similar to this one are often used as web servers. Multiple web servers may be used for a high-traffic website. Server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration

A web server is computer software that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a web page or other resource using HTTP, and the server responds with the content of that resource or an error message. A web server can also accept and store resources sent from the user agent if configured to do so.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “web server” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.