Server Galton

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The current server is called "Galton", and used to be installed on a Pentium III (500 Mhz) with Windows 2000  as the operating system and controlled by Apache as the server software.  That server was rather old and slow (relatively speaking) and was replaced by a new server (spring of 2004) with increased security and speed.  This server is used both for the presentation of course information for the Psychometric Unit at the University of Bergen and for research (data collection). 

 

The web pages written in HTML are (for the most part) on this server is maintained with a relatively odd type of system, "Help & Manual" (normally used for documentation of Windows type software), not the normal tool to maintain a web site with, but nevertheless to be recommended.

 

The infrastructure (network and servers) on which the server is connected belongs to the University of Bergen, Norway.

 

The history of the server is simple:

 

1995First "home page" for the Psychometric Unit with associated web pages, placed on the (central) webservers at the University of Bergen.

               

Fall of 1996First server called "Galton" established at the Psychometric Unit.  Used Windows NT Workstation 4 as the operating system, combined with WebSite (from O'Reilly & Associates) as the server software.   First experiments with "scripts" for data collection written in Perl.

       

Fall of 1998With support from the Faculty of Psychology, the first server was replaced by a more powerful PC with the name for the server, at first using Windows NT, now Windows 2000 as the operating system, this time with Apache (Open Source) as the software for the web server.

 

Spring of 2004Replaced by a new server running Windows 2003 server, this time (for the time being) using IIS as the server software.

 

Spring of 2005Replaced the IIS server with Apache for a number of reasons, (a) to have a convenient platform for software written in PhP combined with MySQL, e.g. PhPBB and Moodle, apart from the point that I seem to be moving in the direction of MySQL as a data base for my own programs.

 

Some of the scripts used for data collection in the (via the Balder system) are scripts written in Delphi as socalled "console applications".  Newer procedures used for data collection are pieces of dedicated server software, also written in Delphi by Tom Backer Johnsen, using technology developed by IntraWeb.