The World Wide Web was introduced in the Year 1989 bt Tim Berners-Lee. He Created the first web server, web browser. Web is not same as Internet, it is one of the application built on top of other applications on internet. It is a collection of websites stored in servers and connected to all the local computers through Internet. The World Wide Web is connected to each other by means of hypertext or hyperlinks.
Web Server
A web page is a collection of images, text files, videos, database content, all sitting on a computer somewhere in the internet. A Web-Server is a piece of software that runs on that same computer and when you ask for a web page, the Web Server puts all those contents together into a web page and then sends it back out over the internet to your web browser.
Apache: What does Apache do?
Apache is a free and open-source cross-platform web server. Apache web server have the ability to host one or more HTTP based websites and serve your website to visitors. For example, if you want to host a personal/Business website, Apache allows you to do so. A few examples on the market like Apache would be
- NginX
- IIS
- LiteSpeed
Most common among them is Apache. Apache with no sever side services will only allow you to host static website e.g HTMl/Javascript.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Html stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is designed to display documents in web browser. It is used to structure a web page an its content. For example, content could be structured with the a list of bulleted points or well formatted contents with Tables or using images, videos and audios. Contents are formatted using tags
<> e.g <body>, <h1>, <p> etc.
cPanel
cPanel is a web hosting control panel software developed by cPanel, LLC. It provides a Graphical User Interface(GUI). Their target companies are web hosting companies. cPanel helps make web hosting accessible and easy to use. cPanel helps to configure web hosting services easy and reliable for hosting companies and unsophisticated website owners.
