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Practical GIS
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Practical GIS

by Gábor Farkas
June 2017
Beginner
428 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a web page

To understand the client side better, let's make a simple web page containing some basic information about our map. First of all, we need to get our web server's root directory. As web servers can only see a portion of the filesystem, they can only serve our documents if they are placed in the portion they can use. Apache comes with a default web page, which can help us locate this root folder without searching for configuration files. If we open http://localhost in a browser, we can see the greeting document we are searching for. The document's name in the filesystem is index with a varying extension (for example, html, html.en, and phtml).

Note that on Windows you have to start Apache manually every time you start your ...
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ISBN: 9781787123328