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    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

    Electronic Commerce

    Chapter # 7
    Web Server, Hardware and Software
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Recommended Book
    • Electronic Commerce

    by Gary Schneider ,
    7th Edition
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Lecture at a glance!
    • Web server basics

    • Software for Web servers

    • Understanding Domain Names


    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

    • Server Client vs Server


    – Host that manages network resources and providing services to other
    Computers called client in the network
    – Fulfills client requests or respond to the request of clients
    – More memory, larger hard disk drives, and faster processors
    – Can be dedicated or general purpose
    • Web server, e-mail server, database server and Print server
    • Client
    – Less powerful than server
    – Normally request for services from server (print request, webpage request)
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

    Introduction (Technological advances)


    • Computer and communications costs decreasing
    • Computer power and speed increasing
    • Speed of data transfers virtually unlimited
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Application Service Providers (ASP’s)
    • Provide customized business software applications over Internet
    • Develop commonly used applications and provide customization
    • Applications maintained and updated by ASP
    • Able to provide applications with less development time
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    www.eproject.com (example)
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Sentai.cognos.com (Asp example)
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Web Server Basics
    • Respond to requests from Web client computers
    • Web client typically request and web server responds to those
    requests
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Web Server Basics

    • Web Server Software


    1) Operating system
    2) Databases
    3) Web Server Programs
    4) Server Side Language
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Operating System
    • Software that manages computer’s resources and typically use to
    operate hardware (computer)
    • Operating system tasks
    – Running programs and allocating computer resources
    • Types of operating systems
    – Multi-user, multi-processing, multi-tasking
    • Major Operating systems
    – Unix, Linux, Macintosh and MS Windows
    • Linux
    – Open-source operating system and widely used for web hosting
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Web server platform
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Databases
    • An organized collection of logically related data

    – Like Kardan University Database includes Student, Teacher, Program,


    Semester, Courses, Library data but no patient data

    • Database management system (DBMS)

    – Software that is used to create, maintain the storage, retrieval, security


    and integrity of data in a database
    • Major DBMS
    – MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Client Vs Server side Language
    • Client–side Language
    – Programs running on web clients use to design web pages
    • Hyper text Markup Language (HTML)
    • Server-side Language
    – Programs running on Web server create Web pages before sending them
    back to the requesting Web clients
    • Active Server Pages (ASP)
    • JavaServer Pages (JSP)
    • PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Web Server Program
    • Most popular Web server programs which use to execute server side scripting
    – Apache Web Server
    – Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
    – Sun Java System Web Server (JSWS)

    • Dynamic page
    – Web page whose content is shaped or changed by a program in response to user
    requests
    – Server side languages are used to create dynamic contents
    • Static page
    – An unchanging page retrieved from disk or a web that does not change contents.
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Web Server Software
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

    Domain Names
    • Real estate of the Internet usually Point to a space in webserver
    • Three parts (www.kardan.edu.af)
    – Host name – usually www
    – Domain name – name of company or key word or phrase
    – Top-level domain (TLD) – describes type of organization that owns the
    domain name (com and org are widely used)
    – Optional country code (.af for Afghanistan)
    • How to get a domain name?
    – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
    • Regulates domain names and IP addresses
    • www.networksolutions.com and www.register.com register domains
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Common TLD
    Extension Abbreviation of What it refers to

    .com commercial Used by businesses


    .net network Used by Service providers initially, now also used
    by many businesses
    .org Organization Used by non-profit organizations
    .edu Education Used by Universities, schools
    .gov Government Used by Government departments
    .info Information Site is designed to provide information rather than
    sell products or services
    .biz Business Used by Businesses, although less common than
    alternatives above
    FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
    Common country codes
    Code Country Code Country

    .af Afghanistan .nz New Zealand


    .uk United Kingdom .in India
    .jp Japan .us USA (not often used)
    .au Australia .it Italy
    .my Malaysia .fr France
    .ch China .pk Pakistan
    www.kardan.edu.af

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