E-commerce remains one of the fastest-growing aspects of business in recent years, and there is a great demand for people who can plan and implement complete, database-driven web applications that run in a variety of different environments. Focusing on technologies popular on the Linux/Unix platform, this course will provide the student with the skills and knowledge required to create and maintain commercial-quality web sites suitable for database-driven business transactions. The student will learn to build dynamic web applications using popular web programming languages (Perl), while leveraging the power of a SQL database. XML will be covered as it applies to server-side web development. Installation and configuration of the Apache web server will be included, as will coverage of Unix-specific Internet-related security issues.