Serving Information to the Web
In order to make information available to the World Wide Web, one must run a
server. Existing anonymous FTP servers will work. The corresponding URLs to the
documents on an anonymous FTP server would be:
file://machine.name/directory/filename
where filename may represent a plain text file, an HTML document, or
another data type which Mosaic is expected to handle externally.
An HTTP
server, however, provides far greater capabilities.
We recommend the NCSA httpd, a public domain server written by Rob
McCool at NCSA. It is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic/ncsa_httpd, with
complete online
documentation. The documentation is also available via anonymous ftp.
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