Linux Web Server Toolkit - Softcover

Wells, Nicholas D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764531670 ISBN 13: 9780764531675

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Synopsis

If you plan to install and maintain a LINUX Web server, you need a complete reference that will guide you through the process and help you find the answers to those day-to-day challenges. LINUX Web Server Toolkit is that book.

In LINUX Web Server Toolkit, author Nicholas Wells hands you the tools for creating a dynamic Web site with LINUX. You get useful tips and instruction on shopping for Web servers, setting up server software, selecting an Internet service provider, fielding security issues, and much more.

The CD-ROM is packed with the resources you need to build a Web site, including Caldera OpenLinux Lite LINUX distribution, Apache Web Server, and over a thousand utilities and programs.

About this title

Review:

A broad set of talents is required to set up a Linux Web server and a Web site that uses the server. You need to be a Linux administrator, a network guru, a graphic designer, proficient in HTML, and able to create both Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Java scripts--or have some significant subset of these skills. Linux Web Server Toolkit covers all these topics. The approach throughout is not just to tell you how to do something, but to put it in its appropriate context.

The book covers topics from installing Linux and a Linux Web server to creating CGI scripts and planning disaster-recovery schemes. Advanced users will undoubtedly find some material, such as the creation of Web pages or choosing an Internet service provider (ISP), too elementary. However, the chapter on configuring the Apache Web server and the chapter on configuring the Netscape FastTrack server are essential reading for all levels. The first 9 chapters form a foundation for new Web administrators to use the last 12 chapters of the book. These later chapters cover such topics as Web-page statistics, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access setup, server APIs, and Internet security. This book also contains a concise and useful overview of Internet technology. The included CD-ROM features Caldera OpenLinux Lite, the Apache Web Server, X Windows, programming tools, and many other Unix applications. --Robert Frankland

About the Author:

Nicholas D. Wells manages the documentation, training, and Web site for Caldera. Nick has contributed to NetWare titles for Sybex and the Network Professionals Association newsletter and has written extensively on NetWare security. Before joining Caldera, Nick was a technical writer and editor at Novell and was part of the Corsair team, which began to create a new Linux-based desktop operating system. Before joining Novell as a writer, Nick developed educational software and small business applications for ten years.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0764531670
• ISBN 13: 9780764531675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 502