Chapter 21. Web Server
Secrets in This Chapter
What Are Web Servers?
Ubuntu and LAMP
Using Tomcat
In today's world, where practically everything revolves around the Internet, making your applications network accessible is almost a necessity. Fortunately, there's plenty of help available in the Ubuntu server distribution. The Ubuntu server distribution is created specifically for running server applications, as opposed to desktop applications. It provides two popular web server packages for you to install, the Linux–Apache–MySQL–PHP (LAMP) platform, as well as the Tomcat Java application server. Mostly due to its simplicity and robustness, the LAMP platform has quickly become one of the hottest web application platforms on the Internet. The Tomcat Java application server provides an environment for creating JavaServer Pages (JSP) applications as well as Java servlet applications, both extremely popular in the Java programming world. This chapter describes the Ubuntu server web platform as installed from the Ubuntu server distribution and walks you through setting up and using both the LAMP and Tomcat servers.
Ubuntu Web Servers
With literally millions of web pages on the Internet, and more springing up every day, it's getting harder to attract and impress online visitors. Having outdated information on your web page will not only frustrate your visitors, but it might even damage your company or organization. To avoid this problem, web pages must be dynamic.
Dynamic web pages allow you to ...
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