Web Server

The web server provides an environment to run only web applications.

(Web application- it is software that runs in web browsers.)

(Web Browsers- That is a kind of software application used to access information on the World Wide Web.When a user request for some information then it fetches the data in the web server and displays the results to the user)

Web servers can support only web-related web technology. The basic objective of the web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to the users. This communication is being done using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). These web pages are mostly static content that includes HTML documents, images, style sheets etc. The web server also supports SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for emailing and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol for file transfer and storage.

Description:

The main job of a web server is to display the website content. If a web server is not exposed to the public and is used internally, then it is called Intranet Server. When anyone requests a website by adding the URL or web address on a web browser’s (like Chrome or Firefox) address bar (like wwwcricbuzz.com), the browser sends a request to the Internet for viewing the corresponding web page for that address. A Domain Name Server (DNS) converts this URL to an IP Address, which in turn points to a Web Server.