A Generic Structure of a File-Driven Web System

The following programming languages may be used to implement a file-driven web site in this course:

• C++, which is one of the most used object-oriented languages, a superset of C.


• CGI (Common Gateway Interface), which is a standard for running external programs from a World Wide Web HTTP server.


• (X)HTML [(eXtensible) HyperText Markup Language], which is a language for creating documents containing cross-references which allow readers to move easily from one document to another. XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.


• Perl, which is a language especially designed for text processing.


• Unix shell commands, which are commands to the part of the Unix operating system that interfaces with the outside world.

Three terms are defined as follows:

• Web and database servers, which are processes running at host computers for managing web pages and databases, respectively.


• File systems, which are the methods and data structures that an operating system uses to keep track of files on a disk or partition; the way the files are organized on the disk.