OpenVMS with Apache, WASD, and OSU

The Nonstop Webserver

Alan Winston

• Publisher: Digital Press
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9781555582647
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080513133
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Informatik Allgemein

Whether you're an experienced webmaster new to OpenVMS or an old OpenVMS hand new to webservers, this book will save you time and help you do your job better. The book points out similarities and differences between Unix and VMS, contains a management-friendly explanation of VMS's suitability for 24x7 operation, explains web concepts like authentication and access control models clearly (including honest discussion of drawbacks and weaknesses). Clear examples show how to configure each of the three webservers to accomplish specific goals, and comparisons will help you choose which server to run. If you're using or considering using a VMS webserver, this book is for you.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.·Use OpenVMS to provide reliable, full-featured web service for your business·Find information not available anywhere else for OpenVMS, whose unbeatable reliability makes it the web server of choice for institutions that can't afford downtime for their websites·Learn from numerous examples and step-by-step procedures how to do the same task in different servers

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• OpenVMS with Apache, OSU and WASD
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Why Run a Web Server on VMS?
• Chapter 2. VMS and the Web
• Chapter 3. Web Options
• Chapter 4. Installation Issues
• Chapter 5. Basic Configuration and Server Control
• Chapter 6. Encrypted/Secure Communications: HTTPS Protocol Support
• Chapter 7. Managing Access to Your Server Resources
• Chapter 8. Providing User Personal Web Directories
• Chapter 9. Multihosting and Multihoming
• Chapter 10. Indexing and Searching Your Site
• Chapter 11. Cache and Proxy
• Chapter 12. Managing and Understanding Your Server Logs
• Chapter 13. Dynamic Content: Directory Browsing and Server-Side Includes
• Chapter 14. Running CGI Programs
• Chapter 15. RDB Database Access from CGI Scripts
• Chapter 16. Useful Freeware CGI Scripts
• Chapter 17. High-Performance Scripting Options
• Chapter 18. User-Edited Web Pages
• Chapter 19. User-Developed CGI Scripts
• Appendix A: Perl
• Appendix B: Python
• Appendix C: PHP
• Appendix D: Apache
• Appendix E: Annotated Sample Configuration Files
• Index