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How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site

How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site by Lincoln D. Stein, second edition, 1997, is a comprehensive yet concise introduction to all aspects of running a web site. This includes installing a web server such as Apache, creating web documents in HTML, software for video and audio, writing CGI scripts which are programs which execute on a web server, and more.

CVS and the Book:

The CD-ROM which accompanies the book includes a copy of CVS 1.3-s2. The book itself mentions two reasons to maintain a web site with CVS: to allow several authors to not get in each other's way (page 395), and to automatically include the last modification time in pages (page 369).

While CVS 1.3-s2 should still be usable for some purposes, newer versions of CVS have a client/server CVS which may be useful if you edit your web pages on a machine other than your web server, more portability to non-unix machines, better documentation, and probably more people who are running them these days.

Errata:

No CVS problems are known which are specific to this book. But see above about issues related to CVS 1.3-s2 in general.

For other errata, see the author's web site mentioned below.

For More Information:

The author has a nice site concerning the book, including the table of contents, a sample chapter, and more.

The author also maintains the World Wide Web Security FAQ. In addition to being printed in the book, this FAQ is also online.

Derek Price, CVS developer and technical editor of Essential CVS (Essentials line from O'Reilly Press) , and others offer consulting services and training through Ximbiot.