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Web software: servers, analysis, logs, proxy, email, news and picture servers, and firewalls

This page is for people who want to setup their own WWW resources. Most of the links refer to software for computers running Microsoft's 'Windows'.

Index:

1. Web server software
2. Web server analysis software
3. Web server log analysis software
4. Personal proxy server software
5. email servers
6. News servers
7. Picture servers
8. Fax sending and receiving
9. Personal firewall software

1. Web server software

15 Seconds. Information on Active Server Pages (ASPs).

'Apache' free WWW server for UNIX, Win'95 and NT. Download from Imperial College, London. This is the most popular server.

FlashMX is used to create complex multilayer web animations. From Macromedia and a part of their $899 'Studio MX' software bundle, which includes Director MX, FireWorks MX, ColdFusion MX and Freehand,

Freenet, a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without censorship.

Microsoft's Internet Information Server IIS v 5 also uses the Index Server for web searches.

SGI's VRML 'Cosmo Player' for Netscape v 3 for Windows95 and Windows NT (1.8MB).

Subscribe/unsubscribe to Netscape's 'In-Box Direct' information services sent by email: news, technology, stock prices etc.

Sound software for WWW.

WebReference.com. Web design tips, tutorials, software and advice.

XML.com XML markup language

The 'top' 50 free submission directories for the web, listed at Comunica. Submit web sites them for more exposure.

Articles on preparing clean URLs:

Tim Berners Lee's 'Cool URIs Don't Change'
Jakob Nielsen on 'URL as UI'
'Clean Up Those URLs with Apache,' Dr. Dobb's Journal, December 2000.
evolt.org's 'Making 'clean' URLs with Apache and PHP' and 'Search Engine Friendly URLs with PHP and Apache,' Part I and Part II

For Apache, nearly all modules can be found at modules.apache.org. Links to useful information about mod_rewrite can be found atmodrewrite.com. There is a good overview of content negotiation on Apache.

IIS does not have the strong module culture of Apache, but iismodules.com lists many commercially and freely available modules andiisanswers.com, iisfaq.com, and iis-resources.com have related links and more detailed information on using filters with IIS.

2. Web server analysis software

CyberGeography maps of Internet resources.
Netcraft's survey of web sites. Find out what web server a specified site, or this site is using.

3. Web server log analysis software

Analog and WWWstat are free log analysis software.
I/PRO Netline, NetTracker, WebTrends and wusage are commercial log analysis software.

4. Personal proxy server software

JunkBusters and Muffin provide control over what information web sites can obtain from client programs that view their pages.

5. email servers

ArGoSoft Mail Server free SMTP servers software for Windows.

6. News servers

Hamster and second download site, is a ree news server for Windows.
Free public access to Usenet news is available from many sites, including dfn. Registering is required before posting is permitted.
Claranet provides one of the best Usenet news services for £20/year.

7. Picture servers

Arles Image Web Page Creator
SWGallery web photo gallery software.

8. Fax sending and receiving

HQFax, a free internet fax gateway used to send faxes from a computer. Use one of the many free fax-to-email services on Internet to receive faxes.

9. Personal firewall software

'Norton Internet Security 2000' v 2 from Symantec.
'SonicWALL DMZ' from Sonic Systems
'ZoneAlarm' from Zone Labs Inc.

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