Monday, March 10, 2008

Chapter 8 & 9: Web Server Hardware and Software

Web Server Tools:

AMPP - Consists of MAMPP (Mac Version), WAMPP (windows), and XAMPP (Directly from Apache, if you have a choice, you would always use this). Runs on an operating system called lynix or unix and is half the price of WindowsIIS which has to be run on a windows platform.

EasyPHP - frequently used.

HFS - Http File Server, running this on your computer will allow people to access your computer files through a web browster. http://rejetto.com/hfs/

Server2go - Similar to HFS but it is using XAMPP, but it is meant to be used off a usb drive or your computer.

WindowsIIS - You would only use this if you were using active server pages (.asp). Otherwise you would use an apachy server.

My Local Web:

When you run a web page on your local computer is HTTP://localhost so xampp will always run on the local host. HTTP://127.0.0.1 is the same as your local host.

Web Design Tools:

Free:
-Nvu
-KompoZer (Best one) , doesnt need to be installed.
-Net Objects
-Blocknote.Net

Commercial:
-Adobe Dreamweaver
-Microsoft Expression Web

Content Management Systems (CMS):
A content management system stores all of the data in a database. When you go to the website, the website will access the database and pull up the data. Most websites are built on content management systems.

Local Data Base: Based on your computer
-city desk
-CMS Encore
-Blogjet (blogging)
-Ecto (blogging)
-Windows Live Writer

Webbased:
The data base is stored on a website. The database can be changed and viewed from any computer.

Some examples are:
1) CMS matrix
2) CMS From Scratch
3) CMS Made simple
4) silverstripe

Web Hosting:
Once a website is built on your server, you must host it somewhere so that everyone can see.
Some examples of hosts are:
  1. okanaganhosting.com
  2. oakparksolutions.com
  3. tophosts.com



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