If you want to run web services on RHEL, you have a choice.
Choice number one is the Apache web service, or HTTPD.
This has been around for a very long time.
It's one of the services that has made Linux great already
in the 1990s.
Apache offers many features that are
implemented by using modules.
The Nginx is an alternative.
It's smaller, and it's lightweight,
and it is commonly used, particularly
when web services need to be containerized.
It's a little bit simpler than Apache, but it's also faster.
For now in this lesson, we are going to focus on Apache.
Remember, configuring a web server
is not an RHCSA requirement, but we
need it in order to learn how to work with stuff like SELinux.
And we need it for some upcoming lessons as well.
So you won't see it in the exam, but it's
pretty important for what we are doing in this course.