Sidebar: Internet Resources

The Internet is a wonderful source of information and a great time saver! The UNIX administrator who is interested in using CGI and HTML to ease accounting and administration should check out the following information sources:

Anonymous ftp sites:

ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu -

This is where you can get the latest and greatest versions of the NCSA WWW server and browser. Ready-to-execute binaries for the Mosaic browser are located in the /Web/Mosaic/Unix/binaries/2.7b directory. The last subdirectory is the current version, so you might want to do an ls on /Web/Mosaic/Unix/binaries for the latest version subdirectory. The httpd WWW server binaries are located in the /Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/current directory.

ftp2.netscape.com
ftp3.netscape.com
...
ftp8.netscape.com -

This is the anonymous ftp site for Netscape. Netscape is free if you are nonprofit or academic. Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh distributions can be found in the respective paths:

/netscape/windows
/netscape/unix
/netscape/mac

WWW UNIX pages:

Sigurdur Bjornss ([email protected]) uses an HTML GUI to manage users on an Internet service. This CGI script lets a sys admin create user accounts as well as administer account information for billing purposes. A password change example is available via anonymous ftp at ftp.saga.is. The path is:

/pub/unix/www/cgipasswd.tar.Z

USENET news groups:

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images