Bilgi University About This Site Index

How this site works

This site used to run Apache 1.3 under Linux (running Red Hat 7.0) running on an old Pentium II 400 Mhz machine. The same machine also hosted math.bilgi.edu.tr and the old experimental computing.bilgi.edu.tr sites. The server was located under Chris Stephenson's desk in his office at Kuştepe. The only time the server ever failed was when the maintenance department came it at the weekend to change the office carpet and pulled out the plug. Apart for that the server ran (I think) nearly a year without needing rebooting.

We now have a more modern installation. The machine is part of a racked server farm supplied by Fujitsu Siemens, which s now located in our server room in the Dolapdere campus. The server now runs Apache 2.0 under Debian GNU/Linux (testing)

The pages you see are generated by a PHP script. This PHP script (version 2.2.6). Like a number of other useful programs around the department, it got written by Chris Stephenson when he had the flu.

How do the page requests get sent to the script? You will notice that all the URLs look like normal requests for normal pages. We use Apache rewrite rules to rewrite incoming page requests so that they are passed via our PHP script which gets the originally requested file as a query string. You can find the rewrite rules used in this apache2.conf file. Look for the rewrite rules. Don't be confused by the other rewrite rules - just look at the rules for the cs.bilgi.edu.tr virtual server.

Thanks to Burcin Erocal for the idea of using rewrite rules...

You are welcome to use and adapt these programs (subject to the terms of GPL licence)

Please let me know about bugs..

Chris Stephenson