User manual
Table Of Contents
- Web Technologies Administration
- Contents
- Web Technologies Overview
- Managing Web Technologies
- Managing Websites
- Using Server Admin to Manage Websites
- Changing the Access Port for a Website
- Improving Performance of Static Websites (PerformanceCache)
- Enabling Access and Error Logs for a Website
- Setting Up Directory Listing for a Website
- Connecting to Your Website
- Enabling WebDAV on Websites
- Enabling a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Script
- Enabling Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Viewing Website Settings
- Setting Server Responses to MIME Types and ContentHandlers
- Enabling SSL
- Enabling PHP
- User Content on Websites
- WebMail
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Working With Open-Source Applications
- Installing and Viewing WebModules
- Solving Problems
- Where to Find More Information
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 7 Installing and Viewing Web Modules 63
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PHP lets you handle dynamic web content by using a server-side HTML-embedded
scripting language resembling C. Web developers embed PHP code within HTML code,
allowing programmers to integrate dynamic logic directly into an HTML script rather
than write a program that generates HTML.
PHP provides CGI capability and supports a wide range of databases. Unlike client-side
JavaScript, PHP code is executed on the server. PHP is also used to implement WebMail
on Mac OS X Server. For more information about this module, see www.php.net.
mod_perl
This module integrates the complete Perl interpreter into the web server, letting
existing Perl CGI scripts run without modification. This integration means that the
scripts run faster and consume fewer system resources. For more information about
this module, see perl.apache.org.
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