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Joe
Joe

Reputation: 392

Hosting REST api in web server or application server

I would like to know if there is any difference in hosting REST web service APIs in a web server or application server, is there any reason one is preferred over the other?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4691

Answers (1)

thau0x01
thau0x01

Reputation: 893

So i think you are confused about what are application servers and web servers.

Application Server is the name of a machine/server which is running any application used by an organization and it depends of any other servers to run the application functionalities correctly, like Database Servers, Caching Servers and other kind of servers.

Web server is a software which puts an application online for being accessed by clients through the web.

An application server commonly has a web server running inside it, as part of a stack needed to run the application in the server, like libraries and other sofwares need to execute the application objective.

So you can run a REST api inside of an application server with help of the web server application.

Some examples of web servers are Apache, Nginx, LightHttpd, etc.

Upvotes: 2

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