COP3832 Topics

How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site

Chapter 1, pages 3-9

Key Web Concepts
- The Web and the Internet
- Web Browsers and Servers
- Support for Multiple Protocols
- A Uniform Naming Scheme
- Pages and Compound Pages
- Hypertext
- High-Level Page Desctiption Language
- Multimedia
- Extensibility

Chapter 2, all of Chapter 2

Network Basics
- TCP/IP Protocol
- IP Addresses
- Domain Names
- Clients and Servers
- Ports
- Daemons and Inetd
Uniform Resource Locators
- Complete Versus Parital URLs
- Specific URLs
  - File URLs
  - HTTP URLs
  - FTP URLs
  - Mailto URLs
  - Telnet URLs
The MIME Typing System
- Intro to MIME
- MIME types and Helper Applications
- MIME types and File Extensions
The HTTP Protocol
- Interview with the Daemon
- The Phases of the HTTP Protocol
  - Request Phase
    - Request Method
    - Request Headers
    - Request Data
  - Response Phase
    - Staus Code
    - Repsonse Headers
    - Response Data

Chapter 4, pages 188-201

How Access Control Works
Configuring Access Control
- Access Control on Apache
 - IPAddress or Host Name
 - <Limit>
 - order
 - allow from
 - deny from
 - User Name and Password
 - Creating a password file
 - Using htpasswd
 - Password Protecting Dirs
 - AuthName
 - AuthType
 - AuthUserFile
 - Require
 - Restrictions in .htaccess
 - Access Control in Virtual Hosts

Chapter 5, pages 241-271

Basic HTML Tags
- HTML
- TITLE
- BODY
- FONT
- Header Tags
- Paragraph and Line Breaks
- Hypertext Links
  - Links
  - Targets
  - URLs in Links
- In-Line Images
- Combining Links with Images
Advanced Tags
- Logical Styles
 - <CODE>
 - <ADDRESS>
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- Physical Styles
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 - <BIG>
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- Controlling Font Size and Color
Control Over Paragraph Formatting
- Alignment
- Special Paragraph Styles
  - Preformatted Text
  - Horizontal Rules
  - Lists
    - Ordered
    - Unordered
    - Adjusting Appearance
    - Definition
Controlling Global Appearance
- Background color and image
- Color of text and links

Chapter 3, pages 59-110

Web Server Software
- Document Tree Features
  - Standard Directory Structure
  - Virtual Document Trees
  - User-Supported Directories
- Communications Features
  - Virtual Hosts
  - Support for non-HTTP protocols
- Advanced HTTP features
  - Content Negotiation
  - Language Negotiation
  - Keep-Alive Connections
  - As-is documents
- Scripting
  - Standard CGI
  - Server Side Includes
- Security Features
  - Access Control
- Miscellaneous
  - Directory Listings
Configuring Apache for Unix
- Setting Up Server and Document Roots
- Basic Configuration
 - Adjusting httpd.conf
 - Adjusting srm.conf
 - Adjusting access.conf
 - Starting the Server
- Starting and Stopping Apache
- Configuring httpd.conf
 - Basic Directives
 - ServerName and Port
 - ServerType
 - ServerRoot
 - ServerAdmin
 - File Name Directives
 - TransferLog and ErrorLog
 - PidFile
 - Performance Tuning Directives
 - TimeOut
 - KeepAlive, KeepAliveTimeout
 - MinSpareServers, Max..., StartServers
 - MaxClients
 - Miscellaneous
 - HostNameLookup
 - CacheNegotiatedDocs
 - ErrorDocument
- Configuring srm.conf
 - Virtual Document Tree Directives
 - DocumentRoot
 - Alias
 - DirectoryIndex
 - AccessFileName
 - UserDir
 - MIME types and Language Directives
 - AddLanguage
 - LanguagePriority
 - Directory listing Directives
 - IndexOptions
 - FancyIndexing
 - IconsAreLinks
 - Suppress*
 - ReadMeName, HeaderName
 - AddIcon, DefaultIcon
 - AddType
 - IndexIgnore
- Customizing Individual Directories
 - access.conf
 - <Directory>
 - <Location>
 - Per-Directory Access Control Files
 - Directory Directives
 - Options
 - None
 - All
 - FollowSymLinks
 - SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
 - ExecCGI
 - Includes
 - Indexes
 - MultiViews
 - AllowOverride
- Virtual Hosts on Apache
 - Virtual Hosts on a Single IP address
 - <VirtualHost>

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Homework Assignments
Creating a Web Directory on Mongoose
Setting up a server on Mongoose
Error logs on www.cs.fiu.edu:12345/logs
Language Negotiation
Content Negotiation
Timeout