Zaragosa, Veejay April 12, 2022

SYSAD1

IT/3A

1. What is a web server?

A web server is a computer that stores web server software and a website's component
files (for example, HTML documents, images, CSS stylesheets, and JavaScript files). A
web server connects to the Internet and supports physical data interchange with other
devices connected to the web.

On the software side, a web server includes several parts that control how web user’s
access hosted files. At a minimum, this is an HTTP server. An HTTP server is software
that understands URLs (web addresses) and HTTP (the protocol your browser uses to
view webpages). An HTTP server can be accessed through the domain names of the
websites it stores, and it delivers the content of these hosted websites to the end user's
device.

At the most basic level, whenever a browser needs a file that is hosted on a web server,
the browser requests the file via HTTP. When the request reaches the correct
(hardware) web server, the (software) HTTP server accepts the request, finds the
requested document, and sends it back to the browser, also through HTTP. (If the server
doesn't find the requested document, it returns a 404 response instead.)

2. Why do you need a web server?

The main job of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing
and delivering webpages to users. Besides HTTP, web servers also support SMTP
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), used for email, file
transfer and storage.

It is a server used to communicate with Web Browsers as its clients and the
communication protocol used in this case is HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). This
is why a Web Server is also called an HTTP Server.

The primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to
clients.
 The communication between client and server takes place using the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP). Pages delivered are most frequently HTML documents, which may
include images, style sheets and scripts in addition to text content.

Every Website sits on a computer known as a Web server. This server is always
connected to the internet.

3. What is the difference between a local server and a web server?

Both web servers and local servers are just computers with software installed on them.
Not much more.

That said a web server is a computer that is connected to the internet and has some
kind of a web server software installed on it.

The most common one is an HTTP server software that can serve web pages. For
example, Apache, Nginx are both HTTP servers that can serve both static and dynamic
web pages to browser across the world. All web servers that just have different software
installed on them and so they serve other purposes.

A local server is again a computer that serves a client within the local network or LAN.
That means that in most cases it will not be connected to the internet or if it does it will
be protected with a password so not everybody can access its services. It can act as a
file server or LDAP server that are roles of a typical local server but it can also be a local
web server that holds web-based application only for the local organization.

To make a long story short both servers are just computers connected to a network.
Local servers are connected to the LAN and Web Servers are connected to the WAN.
Other than that it really depends on the software you install on them and the use you
want to make of them. If you need more clarification, leave a comment and I'll try to help.

4. On the table below fill in with the appropriate field name that you will use for your web
system and its corresponding field type.
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