Knowing that the OS X on Mac is built on
Linux, I was expecting some web server to be installed by default on Mac book
air too. And I was not disappointed to see that Apache server is indeed
available.
It is so simple to turn it on and here are
the steps for the same:
Click on System preferences: (This is based
on Mac OS X 10.7.5 – MacBook Air).
Click on Sharing
Check Web Sharing
And start the start the computer’s website
as well as the personal website by clicking on the respective buttons
And what you will see is that an IP address
is allotted for your machine and 2 folders are created – 1 within your personal
folders and the other at the computer hard disk level.
You should see this screen after you have
started both:
A site is created under your personal
folder, which can be tested by typing in http://[you
ip as shown above]/~[personalfolder]
You will see a default web page that is
installed.
Also, you will find another website root
available at
/Library/WebServer/Documents.
This is accessible from your web browser by
typing just your ip address as shown above or ‘http://localhost/’. You will see
a page like this appear.
If that is so, you have enabled your apache
web server on mac OS correctly.
Wish you all the best with web site
creation!!
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