Getting started
Access to most of this website is restricted to tutors and students studying the Web Authoring and Design units. To see the complete unit website you have to register your details using the form provided in tutorial 1.
Please note that registration is not an automatic process and may take a few hours or days depending on when you submit the form. The form submitted will be checked and approved by your tutor. You cannot see the rest of the website until you are registered.
Please also note that your use of this website will be logged for use in academic studies.
Notices
9 November 2009: You might hit problems in tutorial 6 if you are using the world's stupidest editor. Tutorial 6 requires you to create two files called .htaccess and .htpasswd If you insist on using Windows Notepad as an editor be aware that Notepad has a habit of adding an extension .txt to files. To make matters worse if you use Windows Explorer to view the filesystem the default setup is for extensions of known filetypes to be hidden. In other words Notepad adds an extension and Windows then hides it. So if you think you have followed the instructions in tutorial 6 but the software isn't working as expected make sure the files you created are named as specified and not automatically renamed by Windows. Moral: Stop using the horrible Windows Notepad and change to a decent editor such as notepad++ instead. It will make your life much less stressful and save hours of eyestrain and debugging.
13 November 2008: Installing xampp to run on a Windows Vista laptop may be problematic because Vista comes already loaded with its own web server IIS (Internet Information Server - a Microsoft proprietary web server that only works on Microsoft systems). IIS uses port 80 to serve web pages - the same port that apache on xampp uses by default. (On other operating systems contention for port 80 may happen if you run skype or some IM clients on startup.) The solution is either to ditch IIS, or alternatively configure xampp to use another port. To adopt the latter solution proceed as follows:
- Make a backup copy of the httpd.conf file that you will find in your xampp directory (just in case something goes wrong ;-)
- Edit httpd.conf and search for the line
Listen 80
Change it to something like
Listen 8888
- Save your file, and if apache was running restart it
- Remember when you want to access your webserver with a web client, you will need to address it as http://localhost:8888
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