So you want to serve the World?

General serving infromation and errata

• Here's a study on the relationship between the number of client users and the speed of the response. Basically, how many listens should I have?
• Why Macs make a great webserver.
• Web Related White Papers
• The WWW Security FAQ is a must-read.
• You can win $10,000 if you can crack this.
• WebCompare has a detailed run-down of most server apps out there.

  Utilities

  HTML Rename will convert filenames and anchors to 8.3 filenames for those of you stuck with that shitty platform to dumb to understan real filenames.

  Different Servers

• WebCompare
• NCSA HTTPd Tutorials
• Webstar is the HTTPD for the Mac. MacHTTP is the free version. Net.Dreams makes some great scripts for Mac Webservers.
• Here's an HTTPD for Windows 3.1.

Platform Specific Information

Mac

• Interaction/IP adds on chat rooms and shopping carts.
• Whatever CGIs you do on the Mac, you'll probably want to have Tanaka's osax
• Traceroute for the Mac.
• If you have a conflict with your software, you can bet you can find it documented at The Complete Conflict Compendium.
• MacWebCam and WebCamToo let you serve live images.
• Pacific Coast Software has some site management and development utilities.
• Grant's CGI Bolt restricts CGIs to the CGI-BIN directory
• Hexomatic automatically adds Bin-Hex capabilities.
• QuickDNS Pro from Men & Mice.
• Sustainable Softworks has some good admin tools.
• Netatalk lets you mount your Un*x box over Appletalk.

WebSTAR

• Tweaking Web*'s mystery settings
• StarNine has a list of Suffix Map/MIME configuration for Web*.
• Jon, "look ma, no 'h'", has written some great plugins.
• Site Stat can make sence of that log file, and so can Analog.
• Pacific Coast has some web-authoring utilities.
• Restrict CGIs to a cgi-bin folder with CGI bolt.
• Some ListSTAR stuff

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