How to Set Up and Maintain a WWW Site:
The Guide for Information Providers

Web Server Resource Guide

This page gives URLs for all the Web-related software and tools mentioned in How to Set Up and Maintain a WWW Site and is an online companion to Appendix A of that book. It also gives pointers to a number of sites that might be of interest to Web authors, script developers and administrators. This online copy is brought up to date periodically, but unfortunately I can't guarantee that every link will always be correct.

For your convenience, a number of essential utilities are mirrored here. The names of mirrored utilities are marked with an asterisk (*) and include hypertext links into a local collection of tools.

Extensions: Files ending with a .gz suffix are Unix utilities compressed with the gzip utility. Files ending with .hqx are Macintosh files encoded with BinHex (handled automatically by most Macintosh browsers). Files ending with .zip are DOS/MSWindows files compressed with the pkzip utility.

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the Web

General

The World Wide Web FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html

Web Subject Guides and Resource Compendiums

The Home of the Web at the W3 Organization: http://www.w3.org/
YAHOO (Huge and very complete!): http://www.yahoo.com/
EINET Galaxy: http://galaxy.einet.net/
The CERN Virtual Library of Web Sites: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/
The CERN Geographical listing of Web Sites: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Geographical_generation/new-servers.html
The NCSA Mosaic What's New Page: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html.

Web-Wide Word Searches

Lycos (Carnegie Mellon University): http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
The Web Crawler: http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html
Jumpstation: http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/js
The World Wide Web Worm: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html
The Repository Based Software Engineering project (RBSE): http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html

Doing Business Over the Web

First Virtual Holdings Inc. (a broker for secure Web transactions): http://fv.com/
Digicash Corporation (Electronic Data Interchange systems): http://www.digicash.com/
CommerceNet: http://www.commerce.net/

CHAPTER 2: Unraveling the Web, How it all Works

Web Browsers

A General Listing of Browsers: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html
NCSA Mosaic (X, Macintosh, Windows): http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
Netscape (X, Macintosh, Windows; commercial): http://home.netscape.com/
W3-Mode for Emacs (X, requires Lucid Emacs or Emacs-19): http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/EmacsWWW/Status.html
Arena (X; experimental HTML 3 browser): http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/
Chimera (X Windows System)*: http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/; Local copy
MacWeb (Macintosh): http://www.einet.net/EINet/MacWeb/MacWebHome.html
WinWeb (Windows): http://www.einet.net/EINet/WinWeb/WinWebHome.html
Lynx (UNIX and DOS text-only browser): http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/
Cello (Windows): http://www.law.cornell.edu/cello/
AIR Mosaic (Windows; commercial): http://www.spry.com/
Quadralay Mosaic (X, Macintosh, Windows; commercial): http://www.quadralay.com/products/products.html
Amiga Mosaic (Amiga): http://www.omnipresence.com/amosaic/2.0/
Web Explorer (OS/2): ftp://ftp.ibm.net/pub/WebExplorer/

TCP/IP and DNS Tools

Traceroute (Unix; trace the network route between two points)*: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.Z; Local copy
Dig (Unix; versatile forward and reverse name lookup tool): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/dig.2.0.tar.Z