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About the EServer
The documentation (instruction manuals) for all EServer collections.
- About the EServer
- The EServer is a [growing online community] where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers.
- Advertisements
- The EServer does not permit advertisements.
- Apache
- Apache, the world's most popular webserver, runs the EServer, too.
- AppleShare
- The Apple File Protocol (AppleShare) allows computers running Macintosh OS 7.6 and higher to create and edit EServer files over the Internet.
- Carnegie Mellon
- The EServer was first founded in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Collections
- Like a library or museum, the EServer calls the websites it publishes "collections."
- Cookies
- The EServer does not use cookies to track visitors, but some collections may use them to build a better user interface.
- Content Management Systems
- Content Management Systems (CMSes) are [database-driven] document management systems that faciliate revision and collaboration online.
- Copyright Statement of Principles
- Copyright should exist for the public good.The United States copyright law is founded on a Constitutional provision (Article I, Section 8) intended to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts....
- Corporate Publishing
- A brief discussion of how EServer publishing tends to differ from that of contemporary corporate presses.
- Courseware
- Because a large percentage of EServer "members":/Membership are part of the teaching profession, since 1994 we have offered free course websites for the members of our community. All EServer members "...
- Creative Commons
- The Creative Commons movement has created a few different “plain english” versions of "copyright contracts,":/agreement.pdf/file_view seemingly as part of an attempt to address popular unhappiness ...
- Database-Driven
- What it means for some EServer collections to be "database-driven".
- Domain Names
- The EServer has more than 100 Internet domain names associated with our servers.
- Donations
- Please donate, to help the EServer publish quality work to online readers.
- Drupal
- Drupal is one of several [PHP]-based and [MySQL] [database-driven] [content management systems] on the [EServer].
- A short description of how EServer e-mail addresses function.
- Copyright Agreement
- The copyright permissions agreement to be signed by everyone who seeks to publish with us.
- English Server
- Notes from the earliest [history] of the EServer.
- EServer
- The EServer is a [growing online community] where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.
- FileMaker Pro
- [FileMaker Pro] is a user-friendly relational database application, used on the EServer for database-driven websites.
- Free
- Unlike some "free" web services, the EServer really is free of charge.
- FTP
- The venerable FTP protocols allows EServer members to copy files to and from the server.
- Gopher
- The Internet Gopher pre-dated the World Wide Web for organizing and displaying files on Internet servers. A Gopher server presents its contents as a hierarchically structured list of files. It ...
- Grants
- We encourage researchers who use our site to write us into grant proposals.
- Growing Online Community
- "Alexa":http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=eserver.org, the division of "Amazon":http://www.amazon.com/ dedicated to rating Internet websites, ranks our site as "the most popular humanities ...
- History
- The history of the EServer.
- How the EServer Is Different
- A short description of how the EServer differs from other web publishing ventures.
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer information. It was originally developed for the [World-Wide Web], to provide a way to publish and retrieve hypertext ...
- Hypertext
- Hypertext is any text that contains links to other documents--words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.
- Humanities
- The EServer publishes writings in the humanities (sometimes called the liberal arts).
- IMAP4
- IMAP4 is a recent improvement over POP3 for fetching e-mail messages from an Internet mailserver.
- Iowa State University
- The EServer is based at Iowa State University.
- JSP
- JSP, or Java Server Pages, is a server-side include language based upon the Java servlet specification.
- Lasso
- Lasso is a Server-Side Include language to create database-driven websites with FileMaker Pro, MySQL, or other popular database technologies.
- Leisure Reading
- An history of the rise and fall of inexpensive, leisure reading--why we publish free writings.
- Log Analysis
- Information about the EServer's automatically-generated log reports.
- Logo
- The EServer logotype may be used by editors of EServer collections for links, marketing and publicity to promote their projects:
- Macintosh OS X
- The EServer runs on Mac OS X, an operating system built on the open-source NetBSD UNIX.
- Mambo
- Mambo is one of several [PHP]-based and [MySQL] [database-driven] [content management systems] on the [EServer].
- Mailing Lists
- What mailing list services the EServer offers to its members and collection editors.
- Membership
- EServer membership is [free] for people who wish to volunteer to help us publish new works online.
- Membership Form
- If you would like an account as an EServer member and have already read about membership, fill out this form, and you will receive an e-mail confirmation as soon as your account has been activated. ...
- Mod_rewrite
- The [Apache] web server supports a plug-in module called "mod_rewrite" which permits a server to modify any HTTP request into another request, either as a dynamic redirect (which automatically ...
- Movable Type
- Movable Type is a content management system like [Plone], [Drupal] or [Mambo].
- MySQL
- MySQL, the most popular SQL database system, is a [free], [open-source] implementation of SQL that can be used in a wide range of publishing purposes.
- NetCloak
- NetCloak was a server-side include language that was been part of the EServer from 1995-2007.
- Nonprofit
- The EServer is nonprofit venture to publish and discuss works in the arts and humanities.
- OC-12
- The EServer is connected to the Internet by an OC-12 connection.
- Open Source
- Open-source software follows a philosophy that permits free, open use and improvement of software in ways that benefit the community of users.
- Own Your Work
- Why you might consider publishing with us, instead of elsewhere.
- PayPal
- PayPal facilitates donations for the EServer, allowing our donors to contribute to the EServer using their PayPal accounts (if they have them), or to donate using credit cards such as Visa, ...
- Perl
- Perl is the classic language for programming web CGIs (common gateway interfaces)--programs that generate web content dynamically. The EServer supports CGIs written using Perl, as well as pages that ...
- PHP
- PHP is an open-source server-side include language available to all EServer collections.
- Plone
- Plone is an [open-source] content management system used to generate many EServer [collections].
- Policies
- The policies which govern all EServer members.
- EServer News
- News about the EServer, and upcoming events of interest to its members.
- POP3
- POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3.0) is the traditional protocol for fetching e-mail from an Internet mail server.
- PostgreSQL
- Like [MySQL], PostgreSQL is an open-source implementation of the SQL database server standard.
- Privacy
- The privacy policies which protect all EServer users: members and guests.
- Project Management
- Project management software coordinates the work of many people, widely geographically distributed.
- Publish With Us
- Information about publishing new works from one of our collections.
- RAID
- RAID is a system for building large, fast, secure high-speed hard drives from less-expensive equipment.
- Recent Load
- Recent Readership
- Search
- The EServer has a search daemon, which can search any site, either internal or external to the EServer.
- Server-Side Include
- Server-side are programming languages that can be used inside web pages and processed by the server, before being sent to browsers.
- SMTP
- SMTP (Standard Mail Transfer Protocol) is the Internet e-mail standard, for delivering messages from one mailserver to the next.
- Streaming
- The EServer offers [RTSP] and [QuickTime] streaming audio and video facilities for our collections.
- Technical Specifications
- The technical specifications for the servers which publish EServer content to online readers.
- UNIX
- UNIX operating systems are widely used in both servers and desktop computers. The UNIX environment and its client-server program model have been essential elements in the development of the Internet ...
- Visitors
- Information about how the EServer tracks how many readers it has.
- WebDAV
- WebDAV is a recently-developed protocol for connecting to a file server. It's easier and more secure than [FTP].
- Webmail
- The EServer offers a webmail interface for EServer members with e-mail accounts on our system.
- What the EServer Publishes
- The EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the [arts] and [humanities].
- Who Are Our Members
- EServer members are a diverse lot, though all are volunteers.
- Wiki
- A wiki is a form of [hypertext] writing that uses many links throughout text and images, often links that are automatically generated by the writing system whenever a phrase is used that is also ...
- Windows Networking
- The easiest way to work with EServer files and websites from Windows is to use Microsoft Network Neighborhood.
- Wish List
- "Wish lists" with needed hardward and software, for 2009.
- World-Wide Web
- The most popular EServer Internet protocol is that of the World-Wide Web.
- XML
- The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems. It is used ...