Networking Lab 5

Lab Name: Setting Up a web server
Date: 9-30-07
Name: Leo Burke


Objectives

In this lab, our objective was to create our own web server using the Apache Client, as well as using other free methods in order to set up a server. We also used a free FTP client to set up a simple FTP server on our server, as well as host a simple website locally.

Equipment List
Computer lab
Apache server client
Internet Explorer
Filezilla FTP client

Notes and Observations
Setting up the Apache server was usually simple, but not after downloading the wrong file package and attempting to figure out why it would not work. Finding the right registries to change in order to change settings was also a difficult trial and error problem. Getting the FTP client up and running, however, was another challenge unto itself. It was a multistep process that required a lot of searching in order to work our way through, but it paid off and we eventually got our little FTP server working

Diagrams, Flowcharts, and Figures
All of our work was done on one computer with no need for visual aids.

References.
lab handout
Apache server help page

Questions.
I regret to admit the handout containing the questions has been misplaced.

Conclusions
This was a lab where we did some very hands on networking. Setting up an FTP server and Apache web server is the nuts and bolts of website administration. The only problems we had with the lab were setting up the FTP server. I assumed that setting up a website would be a difficult but straight through process, I was pleasantly surprised to find it easier than I expected. The one thing I wish I could do over was set up the FTP server, since it took way longer than it should have, and I know I could get it to work the first time, rather than try several times before getting it to work. Overall, it was an interesting lab.