Negative Space: web server
- Carnival of HTML
- Creating basic web pages with straight HTML code and a pre-existing style sheet.
- Case matters on the web
- When you use a Macintosh, you’re used to things being relatively straightforward and simple. The web, unfortunately, is based on a strange set of standards where Occam’s razor is a bloody and dull weapon.
- checkpw failed, trying legacy method
- Tiger server does have auth_module available, it just isn’t listed in the httpd.conf file.
- Fresh new Negative Space
- I’ve just moved all of Negative Space over to new servers at WebFaction. Please let me know if you see anything missing!
- HTTP headers
- It’s hard to understand how cookies work and how much information from web visitors can be trusted without understanding how browsers and servers communicate.
- Per-header encryption
- Jeff Atwood touches on something that’s bugged me for over a decade: there is no way to do per-header encryption.
- Simple MOO WWW Server
- It turns out to be incredibly simple to get a MOO to serve up html documents. Here’s some code that will allow each player to have a home page on themselves.
- Webserving on Eight Megabytes a Day
- This article is a blast from the past. Yes, I used to run Negative Space on eight megabytes. Over a 14.4 modem. Uphill. Both ways. Presumably you could still do it, but it would have to be static files for the most part (and you might want to hook that Macintosh up to Ethernet).
More Information
- Django
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“Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” Oh, the sweet smell of pragmatism.
- Apache Webserver
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Probably the most widely used web server, it is available for most platforms and it is free. It comes installed on Linux and Mac OS X. Apache provides wonderful support for server-side includes and CGIs, and add-ons can add faster Perl access and secure web pages.
- NetPresenz 4.1
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If you need a server for an old Mac, you can hardly go wrong with this web, gopher, and FTP server. It makes use of your “Users and Groups” so that you don’t have to make up different usernames and passwords for NetPresenz. Just use the same ones as you already have. (Somebody please tell FileMaker Inc about this “innovation”.) Netpresenz also supports CGIs, Server-Side Includes, and automatic binhexing.
- WebFaction
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WebFaction is a joy to use. Their GUI interface makes it easy to add domains and email addresses and other things, and their API makes it easy to add such things via script.
