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2. What is HTTPd?

It stands for HTTP daemon. A daemon is a Unix background process that implements the server side of a protocol. For example, FTPd is the File Transfer Protocol daemon.

HTTPd is the program you would run on a Unix platform to estalish a web server. Daemons are unique to Unix (which some would call a demonic OS ;-). On other platforms, such as Microsoft Windows NT, the web server is a background process implemented as a system service.

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