Develop and Host Distributed Applications on Your Apache ServerWritten by Tara Rinke
iConductor is a new Apache server module that allows you to develop and host distributed applications on your Apache server. Through its unique Variable Management System and extensible tags, iConductor provides robust power required for today’s electronic business systems. Whether you need to create complex sales and accounting systems, or to simply access external data, iConductor server module makes it possible for you to utilize your Apache server to leverage power of existing information assets without a large capital investment in equipment, software, or personnel. iConductor orchestrates communication and interaction among applications and data residing on servers in different geographic areas. With iConductor, you can utilize scripts residing remotely in such diverse programming languages as PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, CGI, or various database programs - and make them all function together in same distributed application. iConductor manages flow of information, applications, or data among multiple connected servers - regardless of platform or operating system. By providing robust features such as extensibility, data integration, variable management, display management, and transaction management, iConductor makes any Apache server a potent platform for application development and hosting.
| | Website Updates are a SNAP With Server Side IncludesWritten by Merle
If you ever had to make a change to your website that needed to be carried onto every page, you know what a tedious job it is.Well, have I got news for you. It doesn't have to be. Welcome to world of Server Side Includes, also known as SSI. The best part about SSI is that it will make your life as a site owner 'oh so sweet.' You're going to want to kiss me after I give you lowdown on this little beauty.Let me give you an example. Let's say you have a site with over 50 pages and you need to add another link to your navigation bar. Can you imagine how long it would take you to open each page and update it? By putting your navigation bar into an SSI file, you would only open up that one file and update that -- and change to your navigation bar will show up site wide. See how simple that was? By editing one file you have updated your entire site instantly. The most common use of an include file is for your top navigation, your bottom text navigation, copyright, logo or any other piece of info needed to appear on all pages of your site. So how do you create an SSI file? Glad you asked! An include file can be an HTML file or a simple text file. It should be whatever HTML coding you need for that element of your site, minus or tags which should remain on your individual pages. An easy way to make them is to design your web page and cut and paste code you want into individual files and name them things like topnavigation.htm or bottomnav.htm. By giving them descriptive names, you'll know at a glance which file is which when it comes time to perform those updates.
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