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Meeting 1: Introduction to the Internet, World Wide Web and Web Servers
Rutgers University Internet Institute Instructor: Chris Uriarte
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Prerequisites
Familiarity with a Web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. You should have user-level experience with UNIX and must be familiar with the use of a UNIX text editor like vi, emacs and pico. Some level of experience with creating HTML documents may be helpful.
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Class Schedule
Week 1: Introduction to the Internet, the World Wide Web, and Web Servers Week 2: Installing and Configuring the Apache Web Server Week 3:Extending Apache: Advanced Topics Week 4: Web Security: Secure Servers and Securing Your Server
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Course Resources
Textbook: Professional Apache by Peter Wainwright (Wrox Press, 1999). User account on Linux server iti.rutgers.edu.
Who is a Webmaster?
A Webmaster is someone responsible for the content and/or management of a Web site and/or a Web server.
Finding an ISP
Setting up a Internet Web site will require you to purchase some level of services from an ISP. The List http://thelist.com
Processor speed and performance becomes very important when delivering dynamic content via CGI scripts, Server Side Includes or other web applications.
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Other top-level domains include .com, .gov, .org, etc. There are also country-specific domains like .uk, .ca, .jp, etc.
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DNS Exercise
What are IP addresses of the DNS servers that contain information about rutgers.edu? What are the IP address of:
www.retaildecisions.com abusaday.admin.cju.com www.linux.org
Ports below 1024 are reserved for system services and can only be used by programs started by root.
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HTTP An Introduction
HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The protocol used between web clients (browsers) and web servers. Web browsers ask for a specific web page from the server, who returns the content
Every time you start a new program (pico, vi, bash, etc.) a process is created and you are the owner of that process.
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