Providing Internet Services Via the Mac OS - Softcover

Steadman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201489988 ISBN 13: 9780201489989

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1996

Synopsis

With professional advice and step-by-step tutorials, Providing InternetServices via the Mac OS covers everything youneed to know about setting up, providing, and maintaining Internet servicesthrough the Mac OS. Every major Internet service--the Web, FTP, e-mail, mailinglists, Gopher, DNS--is explored, along with details on remote administration,maintenance tools, and other key topics you'll need to know about in order toget online and become a successful Internet publisher. This comprehensive text covers: *selecting and evaluating an Internet Service Provider for your full-time Netconnection *modem-based, ISDN, and leased-line connections *setting up a mail server for your organization's e-mail needs *providing and moderating a mailing list to establish an Internet-baseddiscussion group *serving files via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) *publishing content via the Web, with an easy-to-follow HTML tutorial *a walkthrough of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) *the Common Gateway Interface (or CGI scripts), including a forms example *establishing your own domain name under the Domain Name System, or DNS. Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS also comes with a CD-ROM,containing all the software you'll need to start using your Mac as an Internetserver, including special versions of StarNine's WebSTAR(TM) and ListSTAR(TM),InterCon's InterServerreg. Publisher, and Adobe PageMill(TM). You'll also findsuch goodies as Macjordomo for mailing lists, MIND for domain name service, aplethora of CGI tools and other Web utilities, and much, much more. With a foreword by Peter N Lewis, author of FTPd/Netpresenz, Anarchie, andcountless other Internet applications for the Mac 020148998XB04062001

About this title

About the Author

Carl Steadman is the co-producer of the Suck Web site. Jason Snell is an associateeditor at MacUser and the founder and editor of the online magazine InterText.

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From the Back Cover

With professional advice and step-by-step tutorials, Providing InternetServices via the Mac OS covers everything youneed to know about setting up, providing, and maintaining Internet servicesthrough the Mac OS. Every major Internet service--the Web, FTP, e-mail, mailinglists, Gopher, DNS--is explored, along with details on remote administration,maintenance tools, and other key topics you'll need to know about in order toget online and become a successful Internet publisher.

This comprehensive text covers:

• selecting and evaluating an Internet Service Provider for your full-time Netconnection

• modem-based, ISDN, and leased-line connections

• setting up a mail server for your organization's e-mail needs

• providing and moderating a mailing list to establish an Internet-baseddiscussion group

• serving files via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

• publishing content via the Web, with an easy-to-follow HTML tutorial

• a walkthrough of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• the Common Gateway Interface (or CGI scripts), including a forms example

• establishing your own domain name under the Domain Name System, or DNS.

Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS

also comes with a CD-ROM,containing all the software you'll need to start using your Mac as an Internetserver, including special versions of StarNine's WebSTAR(TM) and ListSTAR(TM),InterCon's InterServerreg. Publisher, and Adobe PageMill(TM). You'll also findsuch goodies as Macjordomo for mailing lists, MIND for domain name service, aplethora of CGI tools and other Web utilities, and much, much more.

With a foreword by Peter N Lewis, author of FTPd/Netpresenz, Anarchie, andcountless other Internet applications for the Mac

020148998XB04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201489988
• ISBN 13: 9780201489989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432