Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

If you’ve never deployed a website with the Apache web server, you’re about to learn how. Every so often, taking a step back and going through the basics is good. It not only helps to ground me as a ...

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

Start by questioning your assumption. What makes you think changing a port provides any security? Why do you suppose that massive web sites don't do that? Nope. If I target your server, it takes all ...