Linux Administration Cookbook

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I mentioned other web servers, and it's true that there's quite a few.

In OpenBSD land, you'll probably find yourself installing httpd, which isn't a re-badged Apache (as is the case on CentOS), but is actually completely different software, that just happens to share the same name, and perform similar functions...

Or, you might like the idea of Tomcat, which is less of a traditional web server, as it acts as a frontend to Java servlets (usually some sort of web application).

There's lighttpd too, which is (as the name might suggest) supposed to be a lightweight web server, without the many bells and whistles of functionality that Nginx or Apache provide.

In the Windows world (a horrible place that I don't like to visit), ...