Web services

• How to request a server certificate for a Web server that you run
• Web server architecture - server names, capabilities, and limits
• Web server upgrades and MediaWiki
• Openssl patches from 2010 are still not handled by Safari
• Wordpress at CSAIL
• Future of client authentication after certificates go away

Web hosting

• Creating Personal Web Pages
• Distributing data sets from NFS
• Security recommendations for course directories
• Web server logs - for troubleshooting and statistics
• MIT Drupal Cloud - create your own Drupal site. MIT Drupal Cloud FAQ

• Granting the web server write access to a directory
• Sending redirects
• Restricting access with .htaccess
• Auth User File
• Help! My CGI stopped working!
• List of possibly-dead project Web sites

Other Web services

• Creating your own wiki
• iCal Calendar Sharing
• Trac repository browser/wiki/bug-tracker/CMS
• WebDAV Sharing
• Django Applications

Databases

• Create your own MySQL database (CSAIL Certificate required) on mysql.csail.mit.edu
• postgres.csail.mit.edu serves PostgreSQL schemas to CSAIL users (via their CSAIL Kerberos principals) and automated processes/web applications (via standard passwords), upon request to help@csail.mit.edu.
• Do NOT use SQLite to store data anywhere in AFS (including home directories and web docroots). It assumes file locking semantics that AFS does not provide, and corrupted databases will result.