====== Basic Web Server Operation ======

**Contact Hour 19**: To be discussed on Tuesday 12th March 2013.

**Lecturer**: [[C.P.Jobling@Swansea.ac.uk|Dr Chris P. Jobling]].


===== Contents of this Lecture =====

An introduction to server-side programming with a description of the operation of a basic webserver 
  * The roles of a web server and web client 
  * Modern Web Servers 
  * The Apache Web Server 
  * Revision of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 
  * Web server operation 
  * Mapping resources to files 


===== The Presentation =====
 
  * {{:eg-259:webserver.pptx|The PowerPoint file for this lecture}}


===== What's Next? =====

** Interactive Services **
  * The need to serve more than static pages 
  * Dynamic content 
  * CGI Operation 
  * More on the HTTP request 
  * CGI Technologies 

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