Distance Learning from NITOL - HiST
Exercises: Lesson 12: WWW Server Management
Author: Arne B. Mikalsen
Date: 03.06.97
Deadline: 16.06.97
The text for this exercise is very short I have to split the exercise in two. Those of you who has Windows 95 or NT does part 1, while those of you with Win 3.* has to do part 2.
Download WebSite from http://www.ora.com. It is a large file, so it will take some time do download (about half an hour with 28.800 and no delays on the line). There is a lot of information on the O'Reilly web-site, and I recommend reading the install guide they have there.
Make a short summary of the installation, and feel free to spice it with screen shots from the web server's homepage (The homepage of your server when you get it online).
This is a bit more boring. I could have asked you to install another web-server, but since only WebSite was discussed in the lesson, I will not. For those of you that want to, you could try the httpd-server.
Your exercise is to construct a brief report where you compare some different types of web-servers: