Linux Basics - training course

Fundmentals for new users of Linux-based servers.

Duration: 1 day • Price: $640.00 or £410.00 +VAT (with hotel room), or $550.00 or £350.00 +VAT (without room), • Venue: Melksham, England

COURSE START DATES

• Monday 9 September 2013	• Monday 18 November 2013
• Monday 20 January 2014

DESCRIPTION

This course is an introduction to Linux for anyone who'll be installing or maintaining a web site on a Linux server, or who will be deploying web based applications on the server.

The course covers the structure of a Linux based server system and the fundamentals of the operating system - creating directories, navigation, examining, copying and deleting files, setting file access, and so on. A short section on the vi editor teaches you how to make simple changes to files without having to upload new copies, and a brief reminder / overview of HTML ensures you have the knowledge to check out and update a user's web site. The course then covers the utilities that you'll use to upload and access your website from your own desktop, such as telnet and ssh, and tools such as tar, gzip and ftp used in file transfer.

The concluding exercise on this course has you uploading a website onto a pre-configured Linux server, making some alterations, testing them and checking the server log files.

This is an intensive one day course that covers the use of Linux on web servers. It does not cover the Linux Windowing environments since most users will be accessing Linux on a server via a network 2590

PREREQUISITES

You must be a competent computer user. Further experience is helpful, but this course is run for small groups and is tailored to fill in gaps in your knowledge.

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SUBJECT BACKGROUND

Linux is the operating system that's now used on the majority of web servers. Even if your organisation uses Microsoft Windows at the Desktop, you may find Linux behind the scenes.

COURSE CONTENT

Course Summary: [Link]

The Components of a Web-Based Solution (module A100) Elements of an IT solution under LAMP or Java. Linux, Unix, Solaris and OS X. Key features of an operating system. NCSA server, Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, IIS. MySQL, PostGREsql, Oracle, SQL Server, Access. Perl, PHP, Java and other languages. Scripting languages. Compiled languages. Embedded languages. Java. .NET. Applications. Some standard applications. YaBB. phpBB. SMF. osCommerce. PHP-Nuke. Zope. Plone. Summary.

Linux -An Introduction For Users (module A101) Logging in and user accounts. Files and directories. File name matching and specifying multiple files. Commands for examining file contents. Manipulating the file system. Copying, moving and deleting files and directories. Changing the contents of a file. vi basics. Summary of vi commands. The most basic. Second level vi commands. File permissions and some other useful commands. File permissions. Metacharacters in Nix commands. Other useful commands. Combining commands with shell programming. Distribution and archive files and file transfers. Handling tar and gzip files. Transferring files using FTP. Logging in to remote machines.

HTML - An Overview (module Q624) Tags. Structure of a page. Special characters and new lines. Some common tags. Lists, tables, etc.. Which HTML standard?. Validating your page.

Linux Utilities (module A166) Introduction. Piping and redirection of utilities. Regular Expressions. Options and related commands. Grep, sort, awk, sed cut and Perl. Find, man and info.

Shell Programming (bash) (module A167) What is shell programming? Running a shell program from the command line. Conditional statements and variables. Loops. Shell comparisons and arithmentic. Functions and other features. Bourne Again Shell scripts on a web page. Other Shells.

Compiler and development tools (module A168) Compiling and development tools for Linux. The gcc Gnu Compiler Collection. Make. CVS - the Concurrent Version system.

TUTOR and COURSE AUTHOR

Graham Ellis - graham@wellho.net [email] [about Graham]

VENUE

Melksham, Wiltshire , England. A taxi transfer can be arranged if you'll be arriving by air from United States. Private Courses can be arranged on site in your country.
Public courses run at Well House Manor - our own purpose fitted training centre and business hotel / conference centre in Melksham.
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PRICE

1 student	2 students	3 students	For 4 or more students from the same company, please consider a private course.
With hotel room $640.00 ($768.00 inc VAT) or £410.00 (£492.00 inc VAT) Without room $550.00 ($660.00 inc VAT) or £350.00 (£420.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $1180.00 ($1416.00 inc VAT) or £720.00 (£864.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $1000.00 ($1200.00 inc VAT) or £600.00 (£720.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $1720.00 ($2064.00 inc VAT) or £1030.00 (£1236.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $1450.00 ($1740.00 inc VAT) or £850.00 (£1020.00 inc VAT)
Notes: • Multiple discount applies to bookings for second and subsequent delegates on the same running of a course, and on same order. • Hotel rooms are available for arrival the night before the course starts, for departure after the end of the course on the last day.

FOLLOW UPS

If you're going to be performing administration tasks on the server, you might like to stay on and attend our Linux Administration course, which usually runs the following day. If you're writing your own Open Source applications, you might also want to attend our Perl Programming, Using Perl on the Web or PHP Programming courses (or Learning to program in Perl, Learning to program in PHP or Learning to program in Python if you are new to programming).

Upon completion of your course, you'll have online access to the source code of all the examples from the course, and you'll have access to the "Ask the Tutor" forum where you can raise questions. We also encourage you to email the tutor, and to visit us again to use our library as appropriate.

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