One major element in IT education is teaching many students how to develop and maintain Web applications, which presents a sizable challenge for universities that standard business environments do not encounter. Each student must have a separate place for storing HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and JSP web systems on the server. As a result, multiple programs must be able to run with separate user spaces. This paper discusses how to design and build a single server to solve this unique problem.The proposed solution uses the Linux operating system to host the server environment, with Apache 1.3 as the base web server and Tomcat as the JSP solution. The paper describes the details of installing the web server and allocating space for each user to store their web pages. In particular, this paper demonstrates the methods and challenges associated with multi-user MySQL and Tomcat installations. The server is designed to let the students design and build web systems without the equipment and administrative overhead of maintaining separate servers for each student. It also gives the students a secure place to develop web applications as part of their IT education. The paper also discusses the administration of the server including adding users to the system.
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