Basic Website 101

WEBSITES 101UNDERSTANDING THE TECHY BITS

• Introduction• Infrastructure and Platform• Application and Code• Demos

AGENDA

INFRASTRUCTUREAND PLATFORM

• Building blocks of web sites:• Infrastructure (servers, OS, etc)• DNS• Webservers• Databases• Static content (HTML and CSS)• Dynamic server side content (PHP/ASP etc)• Dynamic client side content (AJAX etc)

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

DIAGRAM!!

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• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):• Storage, Compute, Network• Not really important for the purpose of this discussion.• Where you can get it (EC2, Rackspace, etc).• Some things to think about

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)• OS, Database, Webserver, DNS• Where you can get it• Things to think about

PLATFORM

• Quick slide on DNS• Really complicated• Really easy to stuff things up• Nothing works without it• Hosting domains• Self hosting• DNS records

DOMAINS

DNS NAMESPACE

• Hosting• Hosting domains• Self hosting• DNS records and zonefiles• Website = A record

DOMAINS

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• What is a webserver?• Types of web server• How it works• What it does• Extending (modules) and server-side scripting

WEBSERVERS

WEBSERVER

WEBSERVERS

• What is a database?• Stores data in a structured model• Examples: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL• Accessed via server-side scripting (PHP/ASP etc)• Not going to go into too much detail

DATABASES

APPLICATION AND CODE

• Static• HTML• CSS

• Server side dynamic• PHP• ASP

• Client side dynamic• AJAX• Flash

CODE

STATIC

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DYNAMIC

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• CMS• What is a CMS?• Wordpress• Drupal• ExpressionEngine• Others

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

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• Other stuff• Applications – Sharepoint, Email, etc• Analytics and reporting• E-Commerce• Security, payments, PCI• SEO• Social integration

VARIOUS BITS

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• Demos• chefwatson.com – basic “business card” site• f11.co.nz – basic personal blog• overwhelmingthreat.com – simple gaming forum• Wordpress control panel

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