No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is apachelounge.com legit or a scam?
23-year-old Apache HTTP Server community site with clean scans and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The site appears to be a legitimate technical community forum for Apache HTTP Server users with no visible scam indicators or deceptive patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage displays a fully-rendered community forum for Apache Lounge webmasters
Layout contains standard forum navigation elements like Forum Index, Downloads, and Search
Content includes specific technical sub-forums for Apache server modules and scripting
Visual style is consistent with a legacy technical documentation or community site
No deceptive urgency, fake trust badges, or suspicious data entry forms are visible
Intelligence
The domain apachelounge.com was registered in February 2003 and has operated continuously for over two decades. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page renders a functional forum with technical sub-sections, donation requests, and no login or checkout forms. Web research confirms the site is referenced in official Apache and Microsoft documentation as a source for Windows builds. The operator lists contact details in the Netherlands and explicitly states the project is not sponsored or affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in the evidence package.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for apachelounge.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain apachelounge.com registered February 2003 (23+ years old).
- Operated by Steffen Land (info@apachelounge.com); provides PGP-signed Windows binaries for Apache HTTP Server and modules.
- Site self-describes as providing up-to-date Windows binaries for >15 years with 'hundreds of thousands of satisfied users'; forum has 16k+ users and 42k+ posts.
- Referenced positively in official Apache docs, Microsoft docs, Appeon, TIBCO, and numerous tutorials/YouTube guides as a source for Windows Apache builds.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or malware distribution findings across web searches including Reddit; occasional AV false positives noted on forum (common for compiled binaries).
- Contact listed as Hilversum, Netherlands; phone +31(0)6 24972382; not sponsored; donations requested.
- Site explicitly states it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for apachelounge.com and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The site is referenced positively in official Apache and Microsoft documentation as a source for Windows Apache builds. Occasional antivirus false positives on compiled binaries are noted as common for this distribution model. No business registration records were located for the listed Netherlands contact.
Domain Timeline
- Feb 23, 2003Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
apachelounge.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://apachelounge.com/
- 2301https://apachelounge.com/
- 3200https://www.apachelounge.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on apachelounge.com and not a lookalike like a-pachelounge.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Final Verdict
Apache Lounge is a 23-year-old community site providing Windows binaries for the Apache HTTP Server. The domain shows clean scans, long history, and references in official documentation. No payment or login forms are present.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on apachelounge.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- apachelounge.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. apachelounge.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 56 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- apachelounge.com is 23.4 years old, registered on 2/23/2003 through easyDNS Technologies Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report apachelounge.com as clean.
- No. apachelounge.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- apachelounge.com resolves to an IP operated by Freedom Internet B.V. in NL (usage type: Fixed Line ISP). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around apachelounge.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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