A Local Network

Emboldened by the success of site.toddle, we can now set about a more realistic setup, without as yet venturing out onto the unknown waters of the Web. We need to get two things running: Apache under some sort of Unix and a GUI browser. There are two main ways this can be achieved:

  • Run Apache and a browser (such as Netscape or Lynx) on the same machine. The “network” is then provided by Unix.

  • Run Apache on a Unix box and a browser on a Windows 95/Windows NT/Mac OS machine, or vice versa, and link them with Ethernet (which is what we did for this book using FreeBSD).

We cannot hope to give detailed explanations for all possible variants of these situations. We expect that many of our readers will already be webmasters familiar with these issues, who will want to skip the following sidebar. Those who are new to the Web may find it useful to know what we did.

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