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