GFDRR Open Source Mentoring Guide
Web servers are the key pieces of software that run the applications that power the web. As a software developer, you will need to learn how to run your own applications inside a web server in order to deploy them in production. Apache webserver is the most popular web server and can be used to serve several popular languages and frameworks. Newer servers like nginx focus on concurrency and performance and are widely used to deploy applications written in python frameworks like django or rails applications. Tomcat is the most popular java web application server. This module covers the most common web servers and application servers for running python and java applications.