General Information for CGS 4825

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Exam Info
- The midterm exam is on October 13.
- List of Topics for the midterm exam.
- The final exam is on Monday, December 8 at 6:25 pm.
- List of Topics for the final exam.
On-line resources
- HTML Reference
- CSS Reference
- Apache Reference
- Java API Reference
- Java Servlet API Reference
- Code samples from the text.
General Stuff
- Syllabi
  - Section 01
- If you do not have a solix account, then get one: School Accounts
- If you don't have an ISP already, then you can connect to the internet through the school: Requesting a PPP account
- Your webmail address has been added to the following moderated mailing list. You can access an archive of messages from this URL. Do not post messages to the list.
  Section 01: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/aul-cgs482501
  You may add more than one address to the list. When adding a new e-mail, be sure to follow the instructions about placing 'confirm ######' in the body o the text. If you only reply, it might not work. This is a moderated list, so only messages that I approve will be sent to you. I will sell your e-mail address to whomever wants to buy it (just kidding).
Assignments will be posted here
UNIX information
- If you deleted some intialization files on otter and your prompt looks like >, then issue this command from your root directory:
  ~downeyt/public/bin/init_user
- More Information About Modes
HTML Information
- Creating a Web Directory on Otter
- Creating a Web Directory on Solix
- Problem with the <P class= ...> tag
- HTML codes for a basic web page
- DOCTYPE and Content-type for HTML validators
- Experiment with colors
- See what the form elements look like
- Information on Cascading Style Sheets
- To add an image to the location bar in a newer browser, add a <link> like the following. The href should be to an icon, not a gif or jpeg. The 16x16 view of the icon will be displayed.
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~downeyt/images/tim.ico">
Tomcat Information
- Information about Installing Tomcat
- Some information about server.xml and web.xml.
- PATH-INFO and QUERY-STRING info
- Customizing an IDE for servlets
  - NetBeans
  - JCreator
- Debugging servlets in NetBeans
Java Information
- Enumeration Interface.
- Calendar Abstract Class.
Servlet Information
- Using Beans to convert data
- Making forms sticky
  - Without Beans
  - Using Beans
- An example servlet that uses a complex bean, and is sticky. This is a jar file. If you are using NetBeans, then you can mount the archive and view the contents. If you are using JCreator, then you will need to expand the jar file using an unzip program. Then you will be able to view the contents. You can also view the contents directly from the web.
- Create a simple database that can hold a bean, or any other class. The class that you save should be serializeable. It should only contain standard types. It should use ArrayList instead of standard arrays, as ArrayList is automatically serializeable. It is in a package named downey. SimpleDB. Documenation.
Server Information
- You may search the Apache site from this link: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
- All the Apache directives in alphabetical order: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/directives.html
- Server Information
- Requesting a port number
- Setting up your server on otter
- Starting, Restarting, and Stopping your server
- MIME types
- I have a server running that has a lot of files.
  - http://otter.aul.fiu.edu:12345
  - The log files are accessible in http://otter.aul.fiu.edu:12345/logs
Examples of Server Options
Server Side Include (SSI) Information
- Examples of SSI commands. Notice how long it takles this file to load compared to the next two links.
  - Same file with a .html extension instead of .shtml. Notice that none of the commands were executed.
  - Same file with a .txt extension. Notice how the server decides on what to send the browser by looking at the extension.
- A good tutorial on all the SSI commands.
JSP Information
- Examples using JSP and Database
- Problems and Tricks for Servlets and JSPs
- Interpreting relative references in servlets and JSPs.
Miscellaneous scripts
- Find your current IP address
- Look up the IP address for a domain name
- Trace the route to a domain
- See what form elements look like
- See a list of agents that have accessed the homework page
Information related to accessing school resources
- Creating a Web directory on solix
- Information on the pine e-mail program
- School Accounts
- Connecting to the school from home
- How to FTP to solix
- How to FTP to weasel
- Newsgroup and Mail Information
General Web Information
- Search Engines
- Internet Service Providers

School Accounts

Getting a school account

As long as you are a registered student, you can have an account to use the school's computers. This account is not needed to use the PCs in the computer labs, but it is needed to long onto the computers with names: solix, serss1, xlab1, servax, servms. The account that you get will give you access to all of these computers.

To get the account, you must connect to the solix computer. When you are prompted for a user name, type the single word (no spaces) unixshell. You will then be asked some information like name and student number. Then you will be given a user name and a password. Write them down! Then you will be logged off the computer. You won't be able to access the computers for another 24 hours, while your account is being activated.

In the future, you will use your user name and password to log onto any of the named computers.

You may get more information about UnixShell from http://www.fiu.edu/~aus/accounts/student.html

Changing Passwords

Once you have a school account, it is good for many computers here at FIU. You should change your password to something other than your student number.

Changing your password on solix

From the command prompt on serss1 and solix, issue the command

        passwd

in order to change your password. You will be asked for three things:

Your current password
Your new password
Your new password, again

FAQ: Why won't the <P class="..."> tag work?

Many people are having difficulty getting the <P class="red"> working. The problem is with the header tags that start the paragraphs: Do not include the header tags inside the paragraph. Do it this way

<h1>Heading</h1>
<P class="red">
Paragraph
</P>

This will get it working.

Submitting Homework Online from mongoose or solix

I have created a script that you can call from school computers to upload files to my directory. Execute the following from your directory on weasel, mongoose or solix:

~downeyt/cs/public/webftp/webftp.pl

and follow the instructions. Use the -h option to learn how to customize the program.

More Information About Modes

There are three types of permissions for a file or directory: read, write, and execute.

File

Read: it is possible to see the contents of the file
Write: it is possible to change the contents of the file
Execute: the file contains machine code, or the file contains a script and the name of a program to execute the script

DOCTYPE and Content Type for HTML validators

If you want to validate the code in an HTML page by using an HTML validator such as the one located at http://validator.w3.org, add the following to your HTML file:

Add the DOCTYPE comment as the first comment in your file if you not using the old style presentation attributes and elements
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Add the DOCTYPE comment as the first comment in your file if you are using the old style presentation attributes and elements
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Add the following META tag to the HEAD section of your file
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Here are some example pages and links to validators for each page.

valid.transitional.html: This is a valid HTML Transistional page that uses old style presentation tags and attributes like <font> and <body bgcolor="red">
Validate the Page.
valid.strict.internal.html: This is a valid HTML page that uses an internal style sheet to replace the old style presentation tags and attributes. It is necessary to validate the style sheet in a second validation.; Validate the Page. Validate the Style Sheet.
valid.strict.external.html: This is a valid HTML page that uses an external style sheet. It is necessary to validate the style sheet in a second validation.; Validate the Page. Validate the Style Sheet. View the Style Sheet.
invalid.transitional.html: This is an invalid HTML Transitional page that has some incorrect tags and attributes.; Validate the Page.
invalid.strict.html: This is a valid HTML Transitional page, but an invalid strict page.; Validate the Page.
invalid.strict.external.html: This is a valid strict page, but the style sheet has some errors.; Validate the Page. Validate the Style Sheet. View the Style Sheet.

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