CERN Server 2.16beta User Guide

This documentation is also available in PostScript.

If you are still using 2.14 or older, please upgrade (then see also 2.15beta release notes). If you insist on running the old version, or if you are a VMS user, refer to the old documentation.

VMS port is on its way. 2.15beta documentaion is also still available.

For VMS users there is now VMS version of 2.16. See also Foteos Macrides' <macrides@sci.wfeb.edu> modifications to VMS version 2.14.

CERN WWW Server (httpd, HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon) is a full featured server for serving files, real or synthesized, running scripts to produce virtual documents, to handle clickable images, fill-out forms, and searches etc. CERN server can also be run as a gateway to allow people behind firewalls to use the Web as if the firewall was not present. A powerful new feature is caching performed by the gateway.

httpd is a general server program which runs WWW protocol, HTTP. This is a TCP/IP based protocol running by convention on port 80.

In This Guide...

Installation: The steps necessary to install CERN server.
Administration: How to set up document protection, index search, clickable images, server-side scripts, ...

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