A recent study of Web servers in the Fortune 500 caused a stir in the Apache community, as a Windows NT magazine attempted to argue that Fortune 500 usage of Microsoft IIS was overwhelming. Matthew Keller does some investigating and explains what the numbers really mean.

It's turning out to be the eternal debate in the Apache world: which is better, PHP or Perl? Both, according to Matthew Keller, who makes some compelling arguments for both.

It's one thing to create a dynamic directory index, as Matthew Keller did in his last column, but what if you want a table of contents that lists every index.html page? Fear not: Keller's latest installment tackles this very issue.

On a daily basis, updating directory index pages is one of the most tiresome tasks there is. But fear not: in this column, Matthew Keller explains how a Perl script can automate this task for you--as well as updating all of those pages if the page name/location changes.