# Serving Information to the Web

In order to make information available to the World Wide Web, one must run a server. Existing anonymous FTP servers will work. The corresponding URLs to the documents on an anonymous FTP server would be:

      file://machine.name/directory/filename

where filename may represent a plain text file, an HTML document, or another data type which Mosaic is expected to handle externally.

An HTTP server, however, provides far greater capabilities. CERN maintains an overview of existing server software.

We recommend the NCSA httpd, a public domain server written by Rob McCool at NCSA. It is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic/ncsa_httpd, with complete online documentation.

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