Session 14 - Server-Side: HTTP and Apache Web Server Configuration

Harvard Extension School  
Fall 2020

Course Web Site: https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/

Topics

  1. The Internet and the Web
  2. HyperText Transfer Protocol
  3. Apache HTTP Server
  4. Caching - Don't deliver content unnecessarily
  5. Minify and Compress Content
  6. Friendly Errors
  7. Friendly Ways to Get There

Session 14 - Server-Side: HTTP and Apache Web Server Configuration, slide1
The Internet and the Web, slide2
Domain Names: Top Level Domains (TLD), slide3
Getting Your Own Domain and Hosting, slide4
Web Server Software, slide5
HyperText Transfer Protocol, slide6
HTTP Overview, slide7
HTTP Response Codes, slide8
Common Headers, slide9
Looking at HTTP Under the Hood, slide10
HTTP Header: Host, slide11
HTTP/2, slide12
Apache HTTP Server, slide13
Apache Configuration Overview, slide14
Scope of .htaccess files, slide15
Problems You Will Have with .htaccess files, slide16
500 Internal Server Error, slide17
Problems You will encounter when using .htaccess files (Internal Server Error 500), slide18
Problems You will encounter when using .htaccess files (Can't see the .htaccess file), slide19
Apache Configuration Sections, slide20
Caching - Don't deliver content unnecessarily, slide21
Caching Related Headers, slide22
If-Modified-Since, slide23
Expires HTTP Header, slide24
Do not cache, slide25
Minify and Compress Content, slide26
Compress Content, slide27
Does Compressing Help?, slide28
Friendly Errors, slide29
Custom Error Documents, slide30
Friendly Ways to Get There, slide31
HTTP Redirect, slide32
Redirect, slide33
Rewrite, slide34
Example - Make Simple Links Instead of Complex Ones, slide35
Example: Create Links that can always point to the correct place, slide36
URL Shortener Services, slide37

Presentation contains 37 slides