Examples and How-To's

A series of worked examples and explanations of how to solve various problems.

• Introduction to the ZWS APIs

CGI

• Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• CGI 'Hello World' program
• CGI Environment variables
• Simple CGI forms
• Session Tags
• Vanity Domain Names

FastCGI

• Introduction to FastCGI
• 'Hello World' in Perl and C
• Simple authorization with FastCGI
• FastCGI/MySQL authorization example using Perl

ISAPI

• Introduction to ISAPI
• Getting Started with ISAPI
• Adding a tilde to directory names (ISAPI filter)
• Basic authentication (ISAPI filter)
• Unique client logging using cookies (ISAPI filter)
• A simple page counter (ISAPI extension)
• A simple thread-safe page counter (ISAPI extension)
• Multi-language web site support (ISAPI filter)
• Generating a web site front page from a Java Servlet (ISAPI filter)
• Transparently mapping requests from one URL to another (ISAPI filter)

NSAPI

• NSAPI (Netscape Server API) Introduction
• Sample NSAPI configuration files

Perl Extensions

• Perl Extensions Introduction
• Getting started with Perl Extensions
• Zeus Web Server Perl Licence
• Authentication-Driven Content
• Logging to a Database
• Advanced Rewriting
• Using Perl Extensions with SSI

Request rewriting

• Request Rewriting Introduction
• Redirecting based on Client User Agent
• Converting Apache rules to ZWS
• Enhancing Gateway functionality
• Session Tags
• Vanity Domain Names
• Redirecting clients to Alternate Pages
• Enhanced Referrer Checking

SSI

• Server Side Includes (SSI) Introduction
• The #config Command
• The #echo Command
• The #exec Command
• #if, #elif, #else and #endif commands
• The #fsize and #flastmod Commands
• The #include Command
• The #set Command

ZDAC

• ZDAC Introduction
• Authentication Server
• Sockd Server