Web Related Resources

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.

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

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.