Rutgers University Internet Institute:

ITI520 - Web Technology: Web Server Setup

Prerequisites:

· Basic, user-level knowledge of UNIX

· You MUST know how to use a UNIX text editor (emacs, vi, pico, etc.) and view files (cat, more, less, etc.)

Course Materials:

Text: Professional Apache

Peter Wainwright - Wrox Press, (1999)

Optional: Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2ed

Ben and Peter Laurie – O’Reilly, 1999

Class Slides:

http://internet.rutgers.edu/II/ITI520/

Username: guest

Password: guest

Rutgers University Internet Institute:

Web Technology: Web Server Setup

ITI-520 Section 13

Syllabus

Meeting 1: Introduction

· Course introduction

· Introduction to the Internet, the World Wide Web, and Web servers

· Options for hosting a Website

· Planning your Web server: hardware, software, and connectivity options

· Networking Basics: TCP/IP, Domain Name Service (DNS), network services

· UNIX Basics: process management, file management and navigation, archiving and compression, editors

Meeting 2: Installing and Configuring a Web Server

· Options for installing Apache

· Starting and stopping the Web server

· Configuring the Web server

· Access restrictions

Meeting 3: Extending Apache: Advanced Topics

· Virtual Hosting - concepts

· Server-based vs. client-based technologies

· Delivering dynamic content: CGI, server-side includes

· Analyzing log data

· Configuring virtual hosts

Meeting 4: Security and Performance Tuning

· Access lists, authentication and authorization

· Living with the threat of attacks: CGI exploits, break-ins, denial-of-service

· How to make your Web server more secure