Web Servers

Web servers are where web pages are stored. A web server has many capabilities, but the primary function is to respond to HTTP requests. When you enter a website address in your web browser, the browser uses DNS to resolve the name into an IP address and then opens a TCP/IP connection using HTTP to request the web page. The server looks through it's web root directory for the file specified in the Uniform Resource Locator. If the

For any given website (such as www.inetdaemon.com) the web server contains all the pages at that site in a special directory which is referred to as the web root. Web servers run special software to provide access to the server and to deliver requested resources from the server. The web server makes it possible to provide access to information or services in a controllable fashion that is platform independant.

SERVER SOFTWARE PACKAGES

• Apache 1.3/2.0
• Netscape Suite Spot
• Microsoft Internet Information Server

 

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