What's a Web Server?
NOTE: If you know what a web server is, skip this post.
Every web domain on the Internet is visible because of a brilliant yet relatively simple (in concept) piece of a software called a web server. The Apache Server is one of the most commonly used web servers. As Microsoft decided not to follow the NCSA Common Log Format, so I will not be discussing their web servers - at least for the time being.
A web server is also known as a daemon process that runs continually, "listening" for requests for various web files (HTML, images, CSS, javascript, etc.). The web server (aka server) determines if the file request is valid (i.e., the file exists), then "serves" it up to the "client" software (usually a web browser) across the Internet network.
Every web server on the Internet records each file requested of it, from every visitor, whether it be an HTML page, a web script, an image, or any other format. If you or a friend own a web domain and have access to the web server's access log file (usually called access.log), have a look at it. In the next post, we'll have a closer look at the access log.
(c) Copyright 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://perl-tips.blogspot.com
Every web domain on the Internet is visible because of a brilliant yet relatively simple (in concept) piece of a software called a web server. The Apache Server is one of the most commonly used web servers. As Microsoft decided not to follow the NCSA Common Log Format, so I will not be discussing their web servers - at least for the time being.
A web server is also known as a daemon process that runs continually, "listening" for requests for various web files (HTML, images, CSS, javascript, etc.). The web server (aka server) determines if the file request is valid (i.e., the file exists), then "serves" it up to the "client" software (usually a web browser) across the Internet network.
Every web server on the Internet records each file requested of it, from every visitor, whether it be an HTML page, a web script, an image, or any other format. If you or a friend own a web domain and have access to the web server's access log file (usually called access.log), have a look at it. In the next post, we'll have a closer look at the access log.
(c) Copyright 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://perl-tips.blogspot.com
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