Chapter 7
Setting Up A UNIX Web Server
Prerequisites
http://www.linux.org/
LINUX
: UNIX for IBM-compatible PCs.
http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD
: Another version of UNIX for IBM-compatible PCs.
http://www.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_download.html
Netscape
: The world's most popular Web browser.
HTTPd Software Packages
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
NCSA HTTPd
: The free Web server package that we describe in our book.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Daemon/
W
3
C httpd
: Formerly CERN httpd; a public domain Web server.
http://www.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/
Netscape
: They sell high-powered Communication and Commerce servers.
http://www.apache.org/
Apache
: an enhanced version of NCSA HTTPd.
Getting the Server Software
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/OneStep.html
OneStep NCSA HTTPd Downloader
: Fill out the form and download a copy of NCSA HTTPd that's already partly customized for your site.
Building HTTPd from Source
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/Compilation.html
Compiling NCSA HTTPd
: Go to this page if you want to build HTTPd from source.
CGI and UNIX
ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/src/
Perl
: This link points to source code for a UNIX Perl interpreter, which you can download and compile on your system if you don't already have Perl. (If this archive is busy, try a
mirror site
.)
http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/cgi-lib/
Cgi-lib.pl
: This Perl library will make your CGI programming much easier.
Helper Applications
http://www.x.org/
X Windows
: A graphical user interface for UNIX. All of the programs in this section require X Windows.
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/
XV
: A graphics viewer and editor.
http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html
XAnim
: A non-MPEG movie player.
ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/play/
Mpegplay
: An MPEG movie player.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ghostview/index.html
Ghostview
: Allows you to view (but not edit) PostScript documents on your screen.
Web Development Tools
http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hm-ftp.htm
HoTMetaL Free
: An HTML editor with a graphical interface.
http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/
Mapedit
: Automatically creates image map definition files when you draw shapes on your image file.
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