Running the daemon

ServerType standalone
The daemon is not going to rely on inetd but will run permanently.
Port 80
This is the standard port for WWW services. It is privileged on a Unix system so must be opened by root. Once opened, the port can be passed to unprivileged services.
User www
Group www
These specify the user and group the daemon will convert to, losing the root privileges it has at launch.
ServerRoot /etc/httpd
All relative filepaths referenced in the configuration are relative to this.

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