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CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook, Second Edition Get your CentOS server up and running with this collection of more than 80 recipes created for CentOS 7 - essential for Linux fans!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887284
Length 326 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Installing CentOS FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring the System 3. Managing the System 4. Managing Packages with YUM 5. Administering the Filesystem 6. Providing Security 7. Building a Network 8. Working with FTP 9. Working with Domains 10. Working with Databases 11. Providing Mail Services 12. Providing Web Services 13. Operating System-Level Virtualization 14. Working with SELinux 15. Monitoring IT Infrastructure Index

Implementing CGI with Perl and Ruby

In the previous recipes in this chapter, our Apache service only served static content, which means that everything requested by a web-browser already existed in a constant state on the server, for example as plain HTML text files that don't change. Apache simply sends the content of a specific file from the web server to the browser as a response where it then gets interpreted and rendered. If there were no way to change the contents sent to the client, the Internet would be really boring and not the huge success it is today. Not even the simplest example of dynamic content, such as showing a web page with the web server's current local time would be possible.

Therefore, early in the 1990's, some smart people started inventing mechanisms to make communication possible between a web server and some executable programs installed on the server to generate web pages dynamically. This means that the content of the HTML sent to the user can change...

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