How to allow only certain files in Apache?

What does Apache actually do?

I'm running a web server on linux, ubuntu and have apache2 installed. I'm not actually sure what this does? allthough I know my server does not host websites unless I have apache installed. does it jsut allow me to host PHP and HTML files? Thanks, will pick bvest answer
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Apache is a program that attaches itself to port 80 and waits for requests. If you don't have any plug-ins installed, all it can do is serve up HTML pages. If you have mod_php installed, it can run PHP scripts, which generate HTML pages (yes, that's actually what your script is doing) and then send that to the client. If you have mod_wsgi installed, it will run a Python program to generate the appropriate page. And so on with pretty much every other language out there.

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