www.washington.edu Developer Information

The development environment for www.washington.edu is different from a stock web server environment. These documents explain how to develop for the www.washington.edu cluster. If you have any questions, please send a message to www-mgmt.

• Beginning Developers
  • Goals of www.washington.edu
  • Server Environment
  • HTML tidy to check HTML pages
  • wwwinst for installing files
• Advanced Developers
  • CGI development
  • Snippets
  • Using .htaccess files
  • Security concerns
  • CGI.pm for use with Perl
  • SSL for encryption

Having trouble with wwwudev, wwwdev, or wwwtest SSL certificate? You may need to load the UW Certificate Authority Cert.

News and Announcements

• The www.washington.edu cluster from Windows on Computing (Spring 1996).
• Security and CGI programs from Windows on Computing (Spring 1998).
• Apache: the www.washington.edu HTTP server.
• Guidelines for Publishing for developers creating content for the UW Home Page.

Server Environment

• Behind the scenes of the www.washington.edu cluster (6-Feb-2004).
• Goals for the www.washington.edu environment (17-Mar-2004).
• From what hosts you may develop for www.washington.edu (28-Jan-2008).
• The server environment including URLs, ports, and directories (29-Apr-2011).

Development Environment

• Snippets: Code fragments for CSS and Javascript (10-Dec-2003).
• PHP: Scripting language embedded in HTML. A tutorial is available, as well as the PHP manual.
• Security concerns for www.washington.edu (1-Dec-2003).
• SSL: encrypting transactions (1-Dec-2003).

Tools

• wwwinst: Installing files (28-Jan-2008).
• wwwscan: Scanning log files ().

Packages

• CGI.pm, a set of Perl 5 libraries which make scripting CGI easier.
• HTML editors (6-Nov-2000).
• Icons which you can use (25-Nov-2000).
• Perl libraries available for use in scripts (28-Jan-2008).