Title: Web servers
Published: March 28, 2023
Last modified: July 7, 2025

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# Web servers

## In this article

 * [Apache HTTPD](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/?output_format=md#apache-httpd)
 * [nginx](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/?output_format=md#nginx)

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The web server is a piece of software that accepts user web requests and serves 
them the appropriate result. Many different web servers run on other operation systems.
Generally, if your web server supports and executes PHP files, it should be able
to work with WordPress.

## 󠀁[Apache HTTPD](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/?output_format=md#apache-httpd)󠁿

See [Apache HTTPD / .htaccess](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/httpd/)

## 󠀁[nginx](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/?output_format=md#nginx)󠁿

See [Nginx](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/server/web-server/nginx/).

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