On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:10, you wrote: > Can anyone give me any help, please. > > The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, > this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages. > > I would like some of my students to be able to publish their web pages > on the net, but would like a simple way of uploading and editing their > own work. > > I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from > the class as well as home. > > Are there any scripts out there that could help me in setting this up. > I could then run them from our own domain.
If by "run them from our own domain" I take it that you mean you want to set up an http daemon to serve the pages? There are a number of alternatives: Fairly obviously you need a computer, but for the sort of traffic load a school project is going to generate an older, perhaps even venerable, machine is fine. You will need the http daemon itself, the most popular one is called Apache and is available for free. All Linux distributions include it, in fact the SuSE one installs it and sets it going by default because it serves the documentation. It offers virtual hosting so, in theory, you would have to set up a dns server too, each student could have a separate name for his/her site. http://httpd.apache.org/ There are several other web servers:- http://www.boa.org/ This one is both simple and fast - in the extreme, no modules, but cgi is possible. http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/ Somewhat more complex, allows internal document searches. http://www.aolserver.com/ <quote> AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server. AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server used for large scale, dynamic web sites. </quote> Only mentioned for completeness. It's arguably the 'Rolls-Royce' of OSS web servers. ==== You will need some method of getting the pupils' files up to the server. You are correct in not wanting to use ftp, it exposes the users' names and passwords to anybody who may be watching with a traffic sniffer. Use the secure shell and secure copy programs instead. These are distributed in all Linux distributions. Use a recent version. There have been problems with it in the not so distant past. http://www.openssh.org MS windows version at:- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ==== All of that said, the Knoppix 'instant-install' variant of Debian GNU/Linux has all of what you need installed and ready to go. http://www.knoppix.org/ http://www.knoppix.net/ ==== HTH. -- C. S.
