WEBMASTERS: Questions to Ponder

WEBMASTERS: Questions to Ponder

We want to represent the Information Structure of Seton Hall University Main Campus. You need to setup the web server to server the information to WWW clients. Here are some questions to ponder:

Do you want to use a compiled version, or compile it yourself ?

What port should your server run under (80 is standard, but it's taken)

What is the user ID that the server should run under

Which person(s) will receive the email sent to the 'webmaster'

What is the directory your server software should be physically located.

What is the directory where all information should be located

What is the directory where all CGI scripts and other programs should go

What is the directory where commonly used images should go

What is the name of the 'index' file for each directory

Should you allow user webpages ? If so, what's the directory name for that directory ?

Who will have access to the web pages ? Everyone, or restricted ?

Should there be restricted pages ? If so, do you want to choose restriction by password or by IP address of the client ?

What's the default extension for HTML files (html, htm, both, other)

What special, if any, MIME types do we want to support (exe files, for example, are non-standard)

Here is, in case you need it, some of the directory structure of 'kitten' (a typical SUN workstation layout)
ROOT-
    | bin
    | cdrom
    | dev
    | etc
    | export -
    |          | exec 
    |          | home -
    |          |        | college
    |          |        | faculty
    |          |        | java  -
    |          |                 | buttery, corvi, damico, daprile, delia, 
    |          |                 | deutsch, divito, gentles, jacobson, 
    |          |                 | mustachi, saccoman, scully, swift, wilsons
    |          |                 | wrube|
    |          | share
    | home
    | kernel
    | lib
    | lost+found
    | mail
    | opt
    | sbin
    | tmp
    | usr -
    |       | adm, bin, ccs, demo, dict, include, kernel, lib
    |       | local, net, news, openwin, sbin, share, spool,tmp,
    |
    | var
    | vol
Details of our Task

Here are a few suggestions for some details of our website, things that we may or may not want to do. All questions above should be viewed with these (or similar) suggestions in mind.

We need page for each lab on campus, showing the location, layout, computer types, opening hours, etc of each

We want to find where a particular hardware item is located, how we get there, when it's available

We need detailed descriptions of the software that's available in labs and in general

We need a list of people available for help

We may want: real-time 'load' report (i.e. which computers at what labs are busy/free), which person is located where in real time, etc

Searchable FAQ list, where people can search for questions about computers, lab, wordperfect, email, or everything else.

	Do you want to use a compiled version, or compile it yourself ?
	What port should your server run under (80 is standard, but it's taken)
	What is the user ID that the server should run under
	Which person(s) will receive the email sent to the 'webmaster'
	What is the directory your server software should be physically located.
	What is the directory where all information should be located
	What is the directory where all CGI scripts and other programs should go
	What is the directory where commonly used images should go
	What is the name of the 'index' file for each directory
	Should you allow user webpages ? If so, what's the directory name for that directory ?
	Who will have access to the web pages ? Everyone, or restricted ?
	Should there be restricted pages ? If so, do you want to choose restriction by password or by IP address of the client ?
	What's the default extension for HTML files (html, htm, both, other)
	What special, if any, MIME types do we want to support (exe files, for example, are non-standard)

	We need page for each lab on campus, showing the location, layout, computer types, opening hours, etc of each
	We want to find where a particular hardware item is located, how we get there, when it's available
	We need detailed descriptions of the software that's available in labs and in general
	We need a list of people available for help
	We may want: real-time 'load' report (i.e. which computers at what labs are busy/free), which person is located where in real time, etc
	Searchable FAQ list, where people can search for questions about computers, lab, wordperfect, email, or everything else.