Part IVWeb Server Hardware and Software

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8.1 Web Server Basics

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8.1.1 Types of Web Sites

Development sites. Intranets. Extranets. Transaction-processing sites. Content-delivery sites.

8.1.2 Web Clients and Web Servers

LANs,WANs, and the Web. Client/server architecture.

8.1.3 Dynamic Content

HTML. Server-Side Scripting. Dynamic Page-Generation Technologies The Future of Dynamic Web Page Generation

8.1.4 Various Meanings of “Server”

Makes programs available to other computers connected to it through a network.

8.1.5 Web Client/Server Communication

8.1.6 Two-Tier Client/Server Architecture

Request line Optional request headers Optional entity body

8.1.7 Three-Tier and N-Tier Client/Server Architectures

Web pages, a web site, and additional processing.

8.2 Software for Web Servers

Linux. Microsoft server. Open Source initiative.

8.2.1 Operating Systems for Web Servers

Unix. Linux SuSE, Red Hat…

8.2.2 Web Server Software

IIS. Apache. Sun ONE. IPlanet Enterprise Server,

8.2.3 Finding Web Server Software Information

8.3 Electronic Mail (E-mail)

8.3.1 E-Mail Benefits

8.3.2 E-Mail Drawbacks

8.3.3 Spam

8.3.4 Solutions to the Spam Problem

8.4 Web Site and Internet Utility Programs

8.4.1 Finger and Ping Utilities

8.4.2 Tracert and Other Route-Tracing Programs

8.4.3 Telnet and FTP utilities.