Widely available servers

The first Web servers were developed for UNIX and that remains the most common platform, but servers are now available for many different operating systems. Servers can be obtained in a precompiled, binary form for many operating systems, but if your particular system is not catered for, it is often quite easy to compile from source code (see Section later in this chapter).

There are a number of free HTTP servers available on the Net, the main ones being the CERN, NCSA and GN servers. The CERN and NCSA servers are both fully featured, although the CERN server offers more functionality. They are similar to each other in their configuration methods. The GN server is not only an HTTP server but also a Gopher server, and is configured quite differently.

[ITCP] Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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