Blog Question Week 6

Blog Questions for Week 6

Describe THREE typical functions performed by the Apache HTTP Web Server? Usage

Apache is primarily used to serve both static content and dynamic Web pages on the World Wide Web.

Apache is used for many tasks where the content needs to be made available in a secure and reliable way.

Three functions that it performs are the following:

1) An example of one function is sharing files from a personal computer over the Internet. A user who has Apache installed on their desktop can put arbitrary files in the Apache's document root which can then be shared.

2) Programmers developing web applications often use a locally installed version of Apache in order to preview and test code as it is being developed.

3) Apache features configurable error messages,

(i) Compare the similarities and differences between the terms ‘Static’ and Dynamic’ Web sites?

There are many similarities and differences between the two, I will begin by comparing the differences, firstly the obvious comparison is static pages end with (.html or .htm) however dynamic pages end in (.stm or .asp or .php etc)

Another difference is static pages tend to have simple non complex web addresses as for dynamic pages they are seen as more complex.

The final difference that I will mention is the following, static pages do not hold or store any personal data about you as for dynamic pages hey usually intended to store your data you will know this when you visit a previous website and your name appears for example (welcome back Mr Smith).

The similarities between static and dynamic pages are they both manage and store website content from around the world.

With out static and dynamic pages there would be no (WWW).

Both static and dynamic translate url into file names and programme names, and they both maintain arunning log file.

They both also manage a number of clients.