Networking Lab 5
Web and FTP Servers
10/23/08
Natasha Busch

Objective:
My objective is learn how to create and change a server. I will also learn about what availible servers and server software are out there.

Equipment List:
A computer in lab which i installed Apache on.

Notes and Observations:
Durring this lab I learned how easy it is to connect to a server and create a page. I noticed that Apache has been number one for a whille and continues to grow by millions every year. There are other servers availible with Microsoft pushing on Apache’s heels, continueing to grow rapidly as well. Apache is a free server software and is useful in personal or professional situations. Creating a simple web page and posting it to the server allows it to be retrieved by the IP address from anywhere. in this situation the security in the lab only allows the lab computers to access these IP addresses. FTP servers are very usefull and also it allows any port 80 to connect.

Diagrams, flowcharts, and figures:

I have none for this lab.

References: 

I referenced the handout, fellow students, Mr. Genereux and the following websites; www.tldp.org and  http://news.netcraft.com

Questions:

According to Netcraft the most popular type of web server in operation is Apache. It seems that has allways been the case. The growth and evolution of webservers seems to show trends for Apache and Microsoft. Now with Google evolving that may not be the case in the future. They grow millions a year, that’s thousands a month. I think a computers evolve and more classes are taught in school that number may be in the billions very soon. Preferences show that free servers will stay the trend no matter what!

The corresponding IP address of “localhost” loopback adress is 127.0.0.1

The default page just says “It Works!”

The main configuration file for the Apache server is httpd.conf. There are other configuration files for customizing and changing configurations of the startup. These include language changes, permissions settings, host settings, and fancy indexing. The path to the document root directory is DocumentRoot “C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs” Apache supports 8 languages. I chose spanish.

Some other hardware/software platforms that are supported by Apache are Unix, NovelNetware, and EBCDIC Port.

I would recomment Apache as a good server for commercial applications. It is a good secure server able to handle large processing. It could handle commercial apps. Also, of coarse, it FREE!

 default address it wants to connect to is 127.0.0.1 and it is my IP for my FTP server. If another host wants to connect they should use that address. The loopback address is the address that directs the data directly back to the source. TCP ports are the ports in which a connection is established using that protocol. The FTP server runs on ports 20 and 21. The Web server runs on port 80.

To view the about me.html file the Web aserver address that should be entered is http://10.10.2.210/aboutme.html

“ls” is the command to list the directory.

Conclusions:  My conclusions for this lab is that setting up a web server is free with Apache and Filezilla server software. It is convienant and easy to do this with the software. This would be an efficiant way for me to save or back up files to pull off any computer.