Who should attend: Webmasters and administrators charged with creating a World Wide Web service for their company. You should have some knowledge of UNIX system administration.

What you will learn: How to set up and maintain a Web server on a UNIX platform.

The World Wide Web is the most widely used Internet service. Companies are quickly discovering that they need to be on the Web to provide information to customers and to keep up with the competition. This course describes how to set up and maintain a World Wide Web server on a UNIX platform. The servers covered in the course include the popular and freely-available Apache and NCSA Web servers.

This tutorial draws upon the lessons learned from writing thousands of lines of Tcl/Tk code. It describes design paradigms and coding techniques that make it easier to build Tcl/Tk applications. Topics include:

Topics include:

- The architecture of the Web
- The HTTP Protocol
- Compiling the server
- Server configuration

• Creating "virtual hosts"
• Resource configuration
• Access configuration
• Per-user access

• Operating system, CGI, and software considerations
• Setting up and configuring SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

Setting up the web server is only half of the battle. Understanding exactly how the protocol works, what performance issues are critical, what the security implications are and other nuances are just some of the important issues that all webmasters need to thoroughly understand. After completing this course, web masters should have an in-depth understanding of their server environment and the critical issues surrounding ongoing maintenance.

Bryan Buus is the manager of XOR Network Engineering's Web services group. Before joining XOR, Bryan kickstarted O'Reilly & Associates' online efforts. He is a co-author of Managing Internet Information Services and has given seminars on managing Web services for CERFnet, the SANS Conference, and Hewlett-Packard's consulting division.

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