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Web Servers (webservers.htm)

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Web Servers

A Web Server is a program that makes web pages available to web browsers. It exposes the contents of one or more directories on a host system, which then become accessible by means of a web address (URL). A browser communicates with a web server using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

The following are some commonly used web servers. The list is not exhaustive.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (Windows).
Netscape Enterprise Server.
Apache HTTP Server.

Reality includes a "mini" web server that listens on port 3080 and exposes the directories and files in /usr/realman/html (UNIX) or drive:\realman\html (Windows). You can access your web pages with a URL similar to the following:

http://systemname:3080/webpage.htm

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