I have been working through the 2.0 install documentation trying to bring
things a little closer to reality. However, I have pretty much hit a wall
at the point of documenting how install paths are chosen. Here is
what I can figure out:
The old 1.3 options of --htdocsdir, --inconsdir, etc, are s
On 12 May 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
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> And this is what I've believed for a long time. But at ApacheCon, Ryan Bloom
> (or it might have been Roy Fielding) talked about the real origin of the name
> Apache, and about the falacy that it came about for the above reason. Of
> course, it is our own FAQ
I was perusing the FAQ today, and came across this text:
Why the name "Apache"?
A cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server". It was based on
some existing code and a
series of "patch files".
For many developers it is also a reverent connotation to the Native
American
