where can you download Apache, and what is Apache used for?? can it be used to read php files?

Question

i've got a php movie file.. but my windows XP can't read it.. can i download an Apache file to read it?? or what else can i use to read it?

Answer 1

Apache is a webserver. When you type http://www.yahoo.com in your browser, the request is handled at webserver installed there. And it shows you index.html/index.php/index.asp/index.aspx/index.jsp page.
You can download apache from http://www.apache.org.

Apache cannot read php file. If you want to run php on your server, you will have to install php in addition to apache. In addition to installing php, you will have to alter the conf/httpd.conf file of apache to handle php files. When you request a php file, the apache request php parser to parse php file. Then apache shows the resulting html to client on his/her browser.

Answer 2

Apache is a web server, and can be downloaded for free from http://www.apache.org/

However, movies are not php files. Php (http://www.php.net/) is a scripting language.