WHAT IS A WEB SERVER?

A web server is a software that delivers web content.

It acts as a mediator between clients and the requested web resources, serving the content to the clients in response to their requests.

WHAT DO MEAN BY WEB CONTENT, REQUESTED WEB RESOURCES?

WEB CONTENT -> HTML documents, images, videos, scripts, and other resources.

REQUESTED WEB RESOURCES ->

When a user enters a web address (URL) in their browser or clicks on a hyperlink, a request is sent to the appropriate web server. The web server processes the request, retrieves the requested files or data, and sends them back to the client, which then displays the web content to the user.

The web server software includes Apache 2 HTTP Server, Nginx, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), and LiteSpeed.

INTERESTING FACT -> By default web server read the index.html

or default.html which is the reason we use a name for the main file index.html.