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The tools required to edit Web pages and source code, and upload the material to the server
are freely downloadbe from the Internet. Instructions to download and install them on your own
computer systems are given below.
Included is a Server software section, should you want to set up your own server, similar to the open tech server. Though this is well outside the content of this course.
Course Software
- Apache 2.2
The web server used for the INTN2201 course.
Download the this executable and run on your machine.
Load the software into your course directory in your "My Documents" on your D:\ drive
- Configure your laptop for Apache
Configuring your web server to run Apache 2.2 locally.
Open this text file and follow the steps in the file to set your laptop up as a web server.
- PHP 5.0
The course used server side scripting language.
Download this zip file and decompress on your machine.
De-compress the software into your course directory in your "D:\My Documents\INTN3201"
- Configure your laptop to process PHP
Configuring your web server to run/parse PHP 5.
Open this text file and follow the steps in the file to configure PHP to run on your machine with Apache. This requires that
you have already configured your laptop to run Apache (see above links).
- PostGreSQL pgAdmin III v. 1.4.2
Software that will allow you to use PostGreSQL locally on your laptop.
Download this text file and follow the steps in the file to configure PHP to run on your machine.
- Configure your laptop to include PostGreSQL
Configuring your laptop to run and interface with PostGreSQL locally.
Download this text file and follow the steps in the file to configure PostGreSQL to run on your machine
- PuTTY 0.60
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms,
along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily
by Simon Tatham.
To install, just drop them into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
with all the other DOS-like programs.
No InstallShield or configuration utilities needed.
- WinSCP
An SSH alternative to FTP clients and a Windows Front End for
the secure shell copy PSCP.
Download the application builder (a file named winscp350setup.exe)
Load the software on your machine (following the application builder prompts)
- Notepad++
A text editor that is truly Notepad plus so much more
Launch the installation file: npp.4.7.1.Installer.exe
Server Software
- OpenBSD
- Free ultra-secure Unix-like operating system derived from 4.4BSD.
"Four years without a remote hole in the default install!"
- Apache
- Free WWW server software offering speed, versatility and stability.
"Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since
April of 1996. See the Netcraft Web server Survey
for more details.
- PHP
- PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
- PostgreSQL
- PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting
almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined
types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available
anywhere. Commercial Support is also available.
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