1. How Web Servers Work Put Your Name Here Class Period: Date:

2. Sources to use: How Stuff Works: – http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server

3. What is a Web Server In your OWN WORDS, write a brief description of a web server.

4. How Stuff Works – the Basic Process Source: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web- server1.htm In your own words, give a brief description of what’s happening … Put your description here

5. The Browser Breaks the URL into Three Parts Protocol What is it? Server Name What is it? The File Name What is it?

6. Behind the Scenes In the Section “Behind the Scenes” on How Stuff Works, it tells you the steps that the browser and server must complete for you to view a web page. On the next 6 slides, give a brief explanation of what happens when you type in “google.com” in your browser’s address bar. Don’t just copy the web site’s explanation – summarize and simplify and put it in your own words.

7. 1 - The URL – what did the browser do? Explain here….

8. 2 - Name Server What happened next?

9. 3 - Connection Explain….

10. 4 - GET Put your explanation here…

11. 5 – Server Sends You know the drill….

12. 6 – Browser Goes to Work What does the browser do?

13. What do we always use as the “home page” file name? Put Your Answer HERE

14. What is the URL of your home page (that we just uploaded in the last couple of days….) Put Your Answer HERE

15. IP Addresses and Domain Names Read the section on IP Addresses on How Stuff Works Read the section on Domain Names Read the section on Name Servers

16. Explain…in your own words Octets and dotted decimal numbers What are they? Give an example Have you ever seen a web address listed in this way?

17. Why don’t we have to enter numbers all the time? Explain in your own words, and be sure to use the terms “domain names” and “name servers”

18. Wikipedia Wikipedia offers two different definitions for the term “web server” On the next page, give your own separate definitions for a web server

19. Wikipedia’s Two Definitions Give the first definition in your own words Put the second definition in your own words here

20. You’re Done! Spell check please! Ask one of your peers to review your work and give suggestions and feedback Save your work! We’ll turn this into a web page and upload it to our own domain tomorrow.