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* Web Development Index Pages
* Design Notes and Tutorials

* WWW Server Software

* Web Maintenance

* HTML Checkers
* WWW Log Analyzers

* Security
* Specific Operating Systems
* Search Engines and Indexes
* Related Links

* World-Wide Web Development

* Web Development Index Pages

* Webmaster's Encyclopedia
The STARS site. A large, alphabetized index of all things web-related.
* Internatinal Country Codes
International Network Connectivity
* Tools for WWW Providers
An excellent, commented index of available WWW development tools.
* WebWeavers
An extensive catalog-of-catalogs of tools related to WWW development.
* WebTools
Tools and pointers to tools, including tutorials.
* Web Engineer's Toolbox
A color picker, plus a few useful tutorials, sample CGI scripts, and images.

* Design Notes and Tutorials

* Netscape Enhancements
Details on the Netscape extensions, links to other authoring information.
* Internet Explorer HTML Reference
Details on Microsoft Internet Explorer's HTML extensions.
* HTML at the Library of Congress
A good index to many tutorials for things HTML-related.
* Password-Protecting Web Pages
NCSA's guide to authentication on webpages, for NCSA Httpd and Apache.
* ImageMap Guide and Tutorial Sites
An index to various tutorials.
* HTML/HTTPD Programming Methods
An introduction to imagemaps and scripts.
* Client-Side Image Maps
A tutorial on creating client-side image maps.
* Web Tools Review
An on-line journal for Web developers. Lots of technical details. (Mostly this is one guy and his rants, but they're good rants.)
* User Interface Design
Sun Microsystem's analysis of user interface design for the Web.
* User Interaction Design Web
Multimedia design resources.

* WWW Server Software

* WebCompare
Server and browser features comparison.
* SPECweb96 Benchmark
Benchmarking explanations and data for the SPECweb96 standard.
* WebStone
SGI's benchmarking "standard" for webservers.
* Apache
Based on NCSA httpd 1.3, but drastically modified. There's also a newsletter of sorts called ApacheWeek.
* Stronghold: Apache SSL
This is a version of Apache with the Secure Sockets Layer for encrypted electronic commerce. Full source is available, and it is free to non-commercial users.
* Sioux
Another webserver based upon Apache, including a Secure Sockets Layer. Uses python as an internal scriptiong language.
* Netscape FastTrack
* Netscape Enterprise
* GNNserver
Also known as the NaviServer. Has a Tcl-based API, a search engine, and a SQL interface, as well as a database (Illustra). Multi-threaded. Commercial product, but available free.
* OpenMarket Secure WebServer
* Spinner
An interesting non-forking server, which supports preparsing of HTML.
* NCSA Httpd

* Web Maintenance

* WWWis
Also known as wwwimagesize (based on the gifsize program). Reads in an HTML file and inserts HEIGHT and WIDTH directives for the inlined images.
* Red Alert
Monitors Internet connections, webservers, and URLs. Commercial subscription service.

* HTML Checkers
* Dr. HTML
A surerior HTML document checker
* Weblint
Excellent syntax-checker.
* HtmlChek
Syntax checker, cross-referencing, etc.
* A Gentler, Kinder Validator
HTML validator based on an SGML parser.
* Checker
A broken-link checker.
* The Web Robots Database
Robots and spiders. Some of these are useful for link verification.
* Htm4l
HTML shortcut language utilizing the m4 macro processor.
* Yahoo listing of HTML validation checkers

* WWW Log Analyzers

* NCSA's Log Analyzer List
A very thorough list of httpd log analyzers, both commercial and freeware.
* analog
WWW log analyzer. Fast and free.
* LogScript
Free Perl WWW log analyzer.
* getstats
Supposedly offers twice the performance of analog, and similar features.
* httpd_log
A python package which generates statistics as well as some very pretty color graphs.
* AccessWatch
A CGI perl script which generates statistics and prints out very pretty graphs.
* wusage
webusage statistics program. 30-day free evaluation period before registration is required.
* SiteTrack
A commercial package which permits extensive site-tracking / log analysis capabilities for those using Netscape servers.
* net.Analysis
A very powerful commercial package designed to handle high-traffic Web sites and produce detailed spiffy output. It utilizes a bundled Informix database.

* Networking

* Search the Cisco Universe CD
Documentation for all of Cisco's routers on Cisco Connection on-line.
* Internet Engineering Task Force
IETF proceedings, and other things on Internet standards.
* Frame Relay Resources
* ATM Forum
Links to many things ATM-related.
* Penn Web Papers
A collection of papers on the Internet, the WWW, and the business of networking, from the University of Pennsylvania. Reasonable basic introductions to the topics.
* DNS Tools
* majordomo
* Backing Up Networked Machines
* Amanda
A networked tape backup system. There's also an archive of its mailing list.
* Tape Knowledge
Miscellaneous things about tapes.

* Security

* Computer and Network Security Reference Index
The Telestra index of security information and tools.
* CERT Coordination Center
Archives of the CERT advisories and much more. Home to COPS.
* Great Circle Associates
Home to the Firewalls mailing list, among other things.
* COAST at Purdue
Gene Stafford's group at Purdue. Home to many research papers about security, as well as Tripwire. Also has SATAN documentation.
* GMU's Security Software List
Pointers to the FTP sites for the important security packages.
* NRL Security Checklist
A step-by-step basic guide to securing a system.
* Matt's Security Hotlist
Many (uncommented) links to many things security-related.
* Kerberos
* Kerberos FAQ
The FAQ in hypertext form.
* Kerberos Reference Page
Moderate-size list of Kerberos links.
* Installation Instructions
Step-by-step instructions for installing Kerberos 5.
* Secure Shell
Also known as ssh, a replacement for rsh and friends that supports encryption.
* Best of Security
Archives of the mailing list.
* bugtraq
Archives of the mailing list.
* WWW Security FAQ
Part of the WWW FAQs. An extensive treatment of Web-related security problems.
* Windows NT Security Issues
A brief overview of security problems in Windows NT.

* Specific Operating Systems

* Sun Microsystems
* Solaris2 FAQ
* Sun Webserver Performance
Performance tuning for webservers on the Sun platform.
* Increasing SOMAXCONN under SunOS 4
* Silicon Graphics
* The SGI FAQs
* SGI Resources (JWS at NASA)
Includes links to the search engine for Iris On-Line.
* SGI MetaPage (Georgia Tech)
* Alternative SGI (France)

* Search Engines and Indexes

* Submit It
Submit your URL to over 15 search engines
* Unix Guru Universe Search
An excellent search engine for all things sysadminly.
* USENET FAQs at Ohio State
* WWW Virtual Library: Internet Resources
Quality, Guidelines, and Standards for Internet Resources. Covers everything from webservers to IRC.
* AltaVista
* DejaNews
* InfoSeek Professional
* Lycos
* MetaCrawler
* OpenText
* SavvySearch
* Virtual Software Library
* Yahoo

* Related Link

* SAGE Home Page
The System Administrators Guild, a part of USENIX. Also see the local home page of dc.sage (Washington DC area sysadmins).
* Assorted Index Pages
* Unix System Administrator's Resource Center
Many links to excellent resources.
* UMD Software FAQ
Links to a lot of documentation for assorted UNIX software.
* Home Page for System Administrator
Wide assortment of miscellaneous stuff.
* Sysadmin Stuff
Links to software (including security), newsgroups, more.
* Introduction to UNIX System Administration
Notes for a course on systems administration. Useful brief overview.
* Excite Search Engine
A free concept-based search engine, from Architext.
* PHP/FI
A server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. Multiple implementations available, including an Apache module.

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