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    <p>Depends on the webserver and what its focus is.</p> <p>(For all items, checking access rights, remapping and such steps apply of course.)</p> <ul> <li><p>General-purpose webservers like Apache start out with files and directories, so they split up the URL into a hierarchical path description, try to find a file at the given location, and serve it if it exists. (This gets more complex with modules and filetypes; some filetypes imply processing the file as a script and returning the script output rather than just piping out the file contents, and so on).</p></li> <li><p>Application servers like Tomcat do a mapping to servlets; if they have found a servlet that will handle the URL, they call it and pass any leftover URL parts/parameters to it for further handling.</p></li> <li><p>Embedded webservers may even use hardcoded lookup tables for available URL patterns, directly mapping to functions to be called.</p></li> <li><p>Special-purpose webservers will do whatever is required; some won't even parse the URL but just the other headers (like some streaming servers do).</p></li> </ul> <p>It all depends on what you want to achieve. In most cases, you will be best off with nginx or Apache and maybe some modules and/or finetuning.</p> <p>Be aware that <em>any</em> HTTP header can be used for mapping the request to whatever means of producing output you have. Hostname, port and URL are used most often, but you may as well take language or client IP or other header data and use them in the mapping.</p> <p>So for your question: Yes, it can be as simple as that; and yes, it can be substantially more tricky (with mapping, rewriting, and complex processing). </p>
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