Goals for this Hour

In this hour, you will learn about

  • Exploring Apache configuration files

  • Creating a simple CGI program

  • A server-side include program

  • Understanding Apache log files

In the preceding hour we explored exchange, a short Perl program that offered direct currency conversion. This time we create a couple of simple UNIX CGI scripts, expand the program to become a Web-based currency exchange translator, look at a simple program to automate adding a last-modified date and time on your pages, and finally produce a shell script that analyzes Apache log files.

Apache is well distributed and is included with all versions of Linux, among others, ...

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