January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Web Services
Mac OS X comes with Apache, an open source web server responsible for more than half of all the Internet’s web sites.[18] At its most basic level, Apache runs as a daemon named httpd that supports HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, listening to web surfers’ requests (on port 80, by default) and replying with response codes and web pages.
Apache Configuration
Apache’s configuration information lies in the
/etc/httpd directory, mainly in the file
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf. This file sets up options
through lists of directives and values, often mapped to filesystem
directories and other criteria. Many of its options are highly
specific to Mac OS X, so that Apache works “out of
the box”; turning on web services with a single
click in the Sharing pane (see Section 13.2.1) launches a full-featured
web server on a fresh Mac OS X installation. Here are some highlights
(and variances from the defaults you’d see in a
platform-independent Apache installation):
The
DirectoryRootdirective defines the location of the server’s default location for HTML files and other web-servable documents; in other words, what you’d see if you pointed your web browser to http://localhost/. Mac OS X sets this directive to/Library/WebServer/Documents/.Following the usual Unix tradition, Mac OS X Apache lets a host’s individual users build personal web sites in their own Home folders, accessible by pointing a web browser to http://
network_address/~username. To find your network address, go to ...
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