Serving Information to the Web
In order to make information available to the World Wide Web,
one must run a server. Existing anonymous FTP servers will work. The
corresponding URLs to the
documents on an anonymous FTP server would be:
file://machine.name/directory/filename
where filename may represent a plain text file, an HTML document, or
another data type which Mosaic is expected to handle externally.
An HTTP
server, however, provides far greater capabilities. CERN maintains an overview of
existing server software.
We recommend the NCSA httpd, a public domain server written by Rob McCool at NCSA. It
is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic/ncsa_httpd, with
complete online
documentation.
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