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/
  W³C 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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