SYST Web Technologies SYST Web Technologies Installing a Web Server (XAMPP)
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES2 Web Servers Software on a computer that “listens” for requests for web files Runs continuously (in a perfect world) Checks to see if an incoming request is valid If valid, it “serves” up the requested file Client: the requestor (e.g. browser)
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES3 Web Servers The WWW has many different kinds of web servers Most Popular (current): Apache Microsoft IIS Google Web Server
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES4 Web Servers Web servers can process pages after retrieving them And before sending them to client E.g. ASP.NET pages We’ll be doing things that require a web server: PHP and MySQL mostly We need to install a web server on the laptops!
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES5 XAMPP A nice package of tools: Apache Web Server MySQL database server For creating, storing, and maintaining databases PHP and Perl for coding PHP = PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Perl is just “Perl” ! XAMPP is cool because it’s FREE! Open Source Platform independent Easy to install, set up, and use
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES6 XAMPP Stands for: X = cross-platform A = Apache Web Server M = MySQL P = PHP P = Perl See also: WAMP – Windows, Apache, MySql, PHP LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP
8/17/2015Wendi Jollymore, ACES7 Download/Install Instructions and everything in the notes! Download You’ll be getting the latest version from the web site. Install Just follow the instructions in the notes! Setup Security: Setting up passwords so no one else can go into your www or sql servers’ config Alias: a “nickname” for a long directory/path where you can put your projects, so you don’t have to use the default web root Test!