Lesson 19. Taking Advantage of the Server

Over the course of this book, you've learned a lot about designing web pages, and just about everything you've learned would work equally well whether you put your pages on a web server somewhere or you open them directly from your hard drive. Most web servers offer a lot more features than just serving up static web pages requested by users.

In this Lesson

I'll talk about some of the features provided by web servers that can make your life as a web developer easier. The following topics will be discussed:

• An overview of web applications

• A description of some popular web application platforms

• How to use server-side includes

• How to set up access control under Apache

• How to use Apache to redirect users