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Re: Webmaster's Starter Kit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim.anderson@fi.gs.com)
Mon Aug 29 10:17:56 1994
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 15:45:23 +0200
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>> dhoman@home.interaccess.com <insert pithy attribution here>
> On Sat, 27 Aug 1994, Jay C. Weber wrote:
>> EIT is pleased to prerelease a freeware over-the-web service
>> for downloading, installing, and customizing a Web server. This
>> WEBMASTER'S STARTER KIT uses forms to get basic configuration
>> information, and writes your config files for you as you download
>> the software. It's been taking people only about ten minutes to start
>> publishing on the Web using this service.
>>
>> Once the basic server is running, it serves up virtual documents
>> that can automatically download and install server extensions. Current
>> choices are five EIT freeware packages:
>>
>> 1. a simple form-based home page generator
>> 2. the verify_links tool for finding broken links
>> 3. the libCGI library for virtual document programming
>> 4. the Hypermail engine for webifying mail archives (plus
>> a form interface for defining archives)
>> 5. the Getstats http log analyzer (plus a form interface)
>>
>> so you can customize your server software in a few minutes more. The
>> process automatically maintains a "Server Administration Home Page",
>> with links to forms-based tools for maintaining the server.
>>
>> There are versions for SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3, IRIX 5.2, OSF/1 V2.0,
>> and AIX 3.2.5 (the AIX version is one rev out of date). SCO UNIX and HP/UX
>> will come in a few weeks.
>>
>> Check out http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/, or just find the link near the
>> end of EIT's home page, http://www.eit.com/ . Seems to work fine using
>> recent Lynx as well as recent Mosaic for X.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome!
>>
>> Jay
>> --
>> Jay C. Weber Director, R&D
>> Enterprise Integration Technologies weber@eit.com
>> 800 El Camino Real weber@cis.stanford.edu
>> Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415)617-8002
>> http://www.eit.com/people/weber.html fax: (415)617-8019
>>
> This sounds very interesting. Is there a BSDI version available?
> Dave Homan
> HydroTech Enterprises
And what about for Linux?
