Faculty and Student Interactive Web Server This web server is intended to be a site for official Kellogg student clubs and faculty to develop interactive web pages. The server supports Active Server Pages and CGI scripts with Perl 5. The server hardware, ODBC software, and directory permissions will be maintained by KIS. Students and faculty will be responsible for writing and debugging their own applications. KIS will not be able to help support individual applications. Developers will be on an honor system for using this server. They need to thoroughly test and debug their programs and keep in mind that their application could potentially crash the web server, thus inconveniencing other developers. This server is a secured web server and data can be encrypted by using https:// in the URL, instead of the usual http://. If the web server crashes, KIS will attempt to diagnose the cause of the crash and restore all files from the most recent, clean backup if needed. Programs that cause the server to crash will be removed. Save a copy of all of your programs in another location in case a complete restore is necessary. Your files could get deleted as a result if they were not on the previous nightly backup tape. Before You Begin 1. Determine what you want your application to do and which programming method you will use to write the application (idc/htx, asp, or cgi). 2. Contact Kellogg Information Systems at kis-techtools@kellogg.northwestern.edu for access rights to the web server. 3. The web server name is www7.kellogg.northwestern.edu. You will be told which folder to put your files into when you are given access. 4. If you will be using a database for your application, create the database on the web server. If not, skip steps four and five. 5. Contact KIS (kis-techtools@kellogg.northwestern.edu) again to set up an ODBC link to your database. 6. Write your application and store all files in your designated folder or subfolder. 7. Test and debug your application. If your application crashes the server, contact KIS immediately. 8. Make a link from your club web page or personal web page to your application on www7.kellogg.northwestern.edu.