In terms of Sharepoint it is the point of contact between the farm and the user that delivers the content as web pages through HTTP. It is not the back end database server, shared service provider, application server, search server or any other middleware Sharepoint provides.
In software applications software frontend means user interface. In terms of Client/Server programs, the client part is the frontend. In compilers, frontend checks syntax and errors.
A web server is a server that is able to store web pages allowing users to view them from another computing device and there are many web server types released by many companies and those are as follows: - Apache Web Server - Apache Tomcat - Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Windows Server - Nginx web server - Zeus Web Server
Can you install proxy server or web caching server?And why do we do it?
yes a web server is an end server
Personal Web Server (PWS)
For the internet; your web browser is the client and the web server is the server.
Apache web server Apache tom cat Microsoft windows 2003 IIS Light tpd Jigsaw web server Xitami web server
Yes. Apache Tomcat is a Web Server
Tornado - web server - was created in 2009.
Boa - web server - was created in 1995.
Roxen - web server - was created in 1996.
SharePoint is an application server, but it requires (and extends) Internet Information Server, Microsoft's web server software.