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Openvms With Apache, Wasd, And Osu »

Authors: Alan Winston
ISBN-13: 9781555582647, ISBN-10: 1555582648
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alan Winston

Alan Winston is Manager of Central Computing at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. He has been professionally involved with computing since 1980, has been a VMS system manager since 1985, and a webmaster since 1994. He was a contributing editor to Unix/World for eight years, and a columnist for Microtimes magazine for two years.

Book Synopsis

OpenVMS with Apache, OSU and WASD also discusses specific tasks, such as how to port CGI programs from other operating systems, and gives working examples in PERL, Python, and DCL. One chapter also covers database connectivity for VMS-based CGI programs.

	Introduction
1	Why Run a Web Server on VMS?	1
2	VMS and the Web	5
3	Web Options	9
4	Installation Issues	15
5	Basic Configuration and Server Control	35
6	Encrypted/Secure Communications: HTTPS Protocol Support	67
7	Managing Access to Your Server Resources	97
8	Providing User Personal Web Directories	151
9	Multihosting and Multihoming	161
10	Indexing and Searching Your Site	171
11	Cache and Proxy	183
12	Managing and Understanding Your Server Logs	203
13	Dynamic Content: Directory Browsing and Server-Side Includes	237
14	Running CGI Programs	281
15	RDB Database Access from CGI Scripts	313
16	Useful Freeware CGI Scripts	325
17	High-Performance Scripting Options	333
18	User-Edited Web Pages	349
19	User-Developed CGI Scripts	355
App. A	Perl	363
App. B	Python	369
App. C	PHP	375
App. D	Apache	379
App. E	Annotated Sample Configuration Files	383
	Index	439