I am wondering how the name ‘Httpd’ comes from, specifically what the ‘d’ stands for. Is it ‘daemon’ like ‘initd’?
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I am wondering how the name ‘Httpd’ comes from, specifically what the ‘d’ stands for. Is it ‘daemon’ like ‘initd’?
probably daemon since it is “designed to be run as a standalone daemon process” as per the apache website httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/httpd.html