HTTP Server Overview
With IBM HTTP Server for i you have everything you need to quickly and easily establish a Web presence and get started on the road to working the Web for business. HTTP Server for i includes the IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache).
Apache, a freeware HTTP server, is open-source software that implements the industry standard HTTP/1.1 protocol with a focus on being highly configurable and easily extendible. It is built and distributed under the Apache Software License by the Apache Software Foundation.
The IBM HTTP Server for i includes a rich collection of enhancements and features:
- Secure by default
- Full-function, task-oriented, web-based graphical user interface for administration and configuration of servers
- Hot backup
- Extended authentication using LDAP, iSeries user profiles and validation lists, Kerberos
- Support for configuration files stored in LDAP
- Extended SSL/TLS support, including client authentication and association between client certificates and validation lists or iSeries user profiles, TLS upgrades
- Static and dynamic local file caching, including FRCA
- Extended CGI support including APIs, persistence, and named activation group support
- Configuration, instance, and group file APIs
- Net.Data support - a full-featured and easy to learn scripting language
- WebDAV - Web-based distributed authoring and versioning extensions to the HTTP protocol
- Webserver search engine and web crawler
- Real-time server statistics
- Support for TRCTCPAPP and serviceability
- Logging including log rollover/archiving/maintenance
- Highly available HTTP server
The IBM Web Administration for i5/OS provides a full function GUI interface for configuring and managing many Web technologies. These features include:
- Create and configure HTTP Server (powered by Apache)
- Manage all aspects of HTTP Server
- Create and configure WebSphere Application Server
- Create and configure a secure IBM WebSphere Portal
- Create and configure a secure IBM Workplace
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