Chapter 24

Common Web Server Stacks

A web server stack is a set of software installed and configured to work together to serve content over a network. There are many stacks of software that are common enough to be referred to using acronyms. This chapter describes some of the most popular. Before diving deeply into each of the related technologies, this chapter introduces some of the most popular types of web server stacks in use today.

All the stacks in this chapter can be assembled and run on Ubuntu or any Linux distribution and are common enough to be worth knowing something about. The pieces being used to assemble the stacks described in this chapter can often be replaced with different ...

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