Product Description

Setting Up a Web Server was written to help new and prospective web masters choose, configure, use, and understand how web servers work. It details each step required to choose, install, and configure the hardware and software elements, then promote and publish on the web site. It covers Internet and intranet security, communications, and links to other servers in an organization. The book also explains about the main web server software applications, how they differ and which works best in different environments.

Setting Up a Web Server ensures that your server is well-connected. It covers communications and hardware, explaining:
How to choose the best communications links between the server and the internet
How to link your server to your LAN
How TCP/IP works to bind the Internet together
How to configure your server for a particular hardware setup

The publishing techniques covered will help you to create a great web site. You'll also find coverage of advanced HTML page design, database publishing, and programming with Perl, Java, Javascript, and Visual Basic.

Setting Up a Web Server is the complete reference book for anyone who is setting up a web server-it covers all major platforms, software, links and web techniques!

· Discusses main web server software applications
· Covers communications and hardware
· Details servers for e-mail, FTP, Telnet, gopher, finger and the latest push information servers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1358941 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 273 pages

Book Info
Helps Web masters choose, configure, use and understand how web servers work. Details each step required to choose, install, and configure the hardware and software elements, create an effective site and promote it successfully. Paper. DLC: Web servers.

From the Publisher
Setting Up a Web Server ensures that your server is well-connected. It covers communications and hardware, explaining: How to choose the best communications links between the server and the internet How to link your server to your LAN How TCP/IP works to bind the Internet together How to configure your server for a particular hardware setup The publishing techniques covered will help you to create a great web site. You'll also find coverage of advanced HTML page design, database publishing, and programming with Perl, Java, Javascript, and Visual Basic. Setting Up a Web Server is the complete reference book for anyone who is setting up a web server-it covers all major platforms, software, links and web techniques!

About the Author
Network columnist for PC Magazine and columnist for LAN Magazine and Personal Computer World Magazine

Customer Reviews

To Old To Be Useful!
This would be a really nice book if it was still 1960, however it's 2001 and things have changed ALLOT! It's not the books fault but save your money and find something newer. If you're still running old hardware and software this book may be perfect for you. END

Useful and informative publication
As a relative newcomer to server setups, I found this book to be very helpful, exactly what I needed when starting out as a web server administrator. It is an excellent overview and a good introduction to the type of hardware and software required to run a web server.

A useful reference book.
This is not a HOW-TO, rather a how-to if you get my meaning. I enjoyed this book. Coming from a position of not knowing (but wanting) to set up a web server, I found it very informative. It helped me to decide on what line and PC equipment I would need to go for, or rather it confirmed what I already had in mind. The information is useful without being practical, and a lot of the cloudy issues concerning client-side/server-side were well discussed. In general, the book aims at telling you what you need to do without getting into the specifics. As a HOW-TO is is well short of its title, but if you want a 5000ft flyover over what web servers require it is a very useful guide. I would think the audience level is the beginner level. The book assumes you know what the technical terms are. In fact, if you don't, then you should not be considering looking at hosting you own web server. I enjoyed it, and unlike another authors review, it will find a place on my bookshelf once I've read it.