Serving Information to the Web
In order to make information available to the
World Wide Web, one must run a server. Existing anonymous FTP servers will work. The corresponding
URLs
to the documents on an anonymous FTP server would be:
file://machine.name/directory/filename
where
filename
may represent a plain text file, an HTML document, or another data type which Mosaic is expected to handle externally.
An
HTTP
server, however, provides far greater capabilities. CERN maintains an
overview of existing server software.
We recommend the
NCSA httpd, a public domain server written by
Rob McCool
at NCSA. It is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
/Mosaic/ncsa_httpd, with complete
online documentation.
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