Users spend many hours throughout the day to meet their needs through the Internet such as shopping, etc., and achieve their goal in just a few seconds through the Internet, given that users are very interested in online shopping as well as meeting all their needs through the Internet, this is what causes all organizations to have a site and also store important information in it, this is important information that makes many hackers interested in finding and accessing people's information on sites, and hacking websites and web servers , which we will discuss in more detail below.

What is a web server?

Web servers store web pages as well as all the information related to them and this information can be accessed in different ways, hackers are very interested in accessing various information and web servers can be a very valuable source of various information, as a result, hackers try to hack web servers and access this information, it should be noted that web servers have two parts, one of which is the software part and the other is the hardware part, hackers, most of the time target the software part in order to obtain information on web servers by hacking them, in the continuation of this article, we will pay more attention to this issue.

Types of web servers:

In fact, all web servers have a unique address, which contains 4 different numbers, that ultimately creates the address of a web server.There are different web servers , four of which are the most common ones which are going to be mentioned below.

- Apache:

Apache web server is an open source software and can be installed in almost all operating systems including Linux, Unix, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc., this web server is one of the most popular are web servers which is widely used.

- Internet Information Services:

Internet Information Services is one of the web servers that has a high performance and due to its high compatibility with the operating system, it is very easy to manage.

- lighttpd:

This web server can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris operating systems and has many fans who prefer to use it.

- Sun Java System Web Server:

This web server is also available for free and the point about it, is that it is not an open source one, this web server supports different languages and can be run on different operating systems.

- Jigsaw Server:

Jigsaw Web Server is written in Java and can run CGI scripts and PHP programs, this resource is also free. 

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