Mac OS X Lion Server For Dummies®

The Automatically Created Website

Lion Server can set up a sophisticated wiki-based website containing collaboration tools for your user accounts. No HTML coding or design layout is required.

The built-in website is dynamically created and updated and is user-configurable. You can limit users' access to features, or you can give them the whole ball of wax. Users of Macs, Windows, Linux, and Unix can create their own pages, wikis, and blogs, and upload pictures, movies, and audio — all in a web browser, without any coding. And if users want to add some HTML code, they can — again, from the web browser.

Here's what Lion Server creates for you automatically when you have web services turned on:

• A home page: Lets users get to the web features (see Figure 13-1). To get there, just use your hostname in the form http://server.example.net in your browser.
• A personal web page called My Page for each user account: When a user first clicks the My Page link (see Figure 13-1), the wiki server creates a My Page for the user, to which the user can add a blog, more pages, and files. If a user wants to let others edit content, she can create a wiki. Users see a link to other users' My Page in the People page.

  

  Figure 13-1: The default web home page in Mac OS X Server.

• Blogs: Each user can create blog entries. In an organization, people can use blogs to distribute FYI-type information rather than ...