How does a webserver work
| A web server stores all the files that make up your web site. This would normally include all the text and media files. When someone on the Internet browses to your web site, their browser requests the files from the server. The server in turn provides those files to the browser which then displays the website. The web server will be running some special software that serves the files. Usually this will be Apache or Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), though there are others. In addition to serving the files for your web page, the web server may do some additional "server side" processing on yout files. For example, some of the information for a web page may be obtained from a database (this is common for forum based websites). The web server is responsible for getting the data from the database, merging it into the rest of the web page information and serving it so it can be displayed in the browser. | |
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