Chapter 24. Turning Your Mac into a Web and FTP Server
You probably know that websites are stored on web servers—special computers that deliver files every time you visit a URL like http://google.com/. But you might not know that your Mac can act as a web server for your own personal or professional website. Turning your Mac into a web server is easy—just enable the server software baked into OS X. And if the built-in software isn’t powerful enough, you can use an open source solution stack to make serving a database-driven website as easy as double-clicking an application.
There are several reasons why you might want to do this. If you’re learning HTML or a programming language, you could turn your Mac into a private development environment for ...
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