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COMMERCIAL: The Web Server Book
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Oct 7 14:39:27 1995
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:14:59 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: COMMERCIAL: The Web Server Book
Organization: SunSITE at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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Title: The Web Server Book: Tools and Tecniques for Building
Your Own Internet Information Site
Authors: Jonathan Magid, R. Douglas Matthews, David McConville, Paul Jones
Publisher: Ventana Press
ISBN: 1-56604-234-8
This book is a top to bottom guide to creating a successful Web server under
any UNIX-like platform, using all the cool and wonderful tools available
freely over the net.
The authors give you the benefit of the experience they've gained with
electronic publishing running the SunSITE project <URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu>.
It includes a CD-ROM which contains Slackware Linux, the Netscape Navigator,
and the sources for all the free software tools they discuss, as well
as binaries for many UNIX platforms.
You can find the Table of Contents and Introduction, as well as ordering
information at <URL:http://www.vmedia.com/cat/press/store/wsb/>.
There is a sample chapter included in the constantly-updated Online
Companion: <URL:http://www.vmedia.com/wsb.html>
Topics covered include:
- - Definition of the the Internet and the World Wide Web, including
its structure, protocols, and history.
- - An explanation of the Web's basic pieces: the operation of the
HTTP protocol which connects Web clients and servers, the HTML
language which describes hypertext documents, and using tkHTML a
free, WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- - A comparison of all the major WWW server packages and a step-by-step
guide to installing and maintaining the most popular server software, the
NCSA HTTPD.
- - An in-depth introduction to UNIX and Internet security, keeping your
server secure from electronic break-ins and vandalism.
- - Discussion of several software packages which allow you to convert
documents from popular word processing formats to HTML, the lingua
franca of the Web.
- - Using good HTML coding style and validating your documents automatically.
- - Image processing for the Web, including GIF and JPEG compression and
colormaps, GIF interlacing and transparency, and clickable imagemaps.
- - A broad introduction to Internet multimedia, including digital audio
and animation.
- - Using WAIS to build searchable indexes of your WWW documents and other
data.
- - Adding interactivity with HTML forms and gform, an easy-to-use forms
processing program.
- - A detailed guide to extending the functionality of the Web, with the
CGI programming interface.
- - How to design your site for maximum impact, so that you reach your audience
and they keep coming back.
- - The next generation of Internet and Web technology: HTML v3.0 (including
tables), HTTP-NG, secure commerce, hyperlinked 3D worlds with VRML,
dynamically extending browsers with Java and Hotjava, and Internet video
teleconferencing.
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jem@sunsite.unc.edu\/SunSITE admin
Co-author of The Web Server Book, available July, '95 from Ventana Press
<URL:http://www.vmedia.com/cat/press/store/wsb>
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