Re^2: Web Programming: For Beginners

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Re^3: Web Programming: For Beginners by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Aug 26, 2011 at 15:34 UTC
What is a web server? Offsite link: full definition of a web server Google is your friend..... Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]
Re^4: Web Programming: For Beginners by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Aug 26, 2011 at 15:36 UTC
Cool. Thanks! --perl.j	[reply]
Re^3: Web Programming: For Beginners by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 26, 2011 at 15:39 UTC
A web server is the system that listens for web requests and serves up the responses. Your browser is making requests almost every time you click on something, and then the browser displays the response.	[reply]
Re^3: Web Programming: For Beginners by chrestomanci (Priest) on Aug 26, 2011 at 16:09 UTC
In this context a web server is a computer program that listens for requests coming from the internet, and responds to them. To use CGI you need to install one on your computer. I recommend Apache. If you are running linux then it should be easy to install. If you are not running linux, (or Mac OS X) then everything will be much harder. If you chose to use a framework like Catalyst, then they usually come with a built in web server that is suitable for debugging and very light traffic.	[reply]