Archive for January, 2008

W3C HTML Validator on OS X

Posted on January 30, 2008. Filed under: Leopard, OSX, Software, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , |

Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards, testing your pages with the W3C Validation Tool is a great [...]

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Installing MySQL on on Mac OS X

Posted on January 30, 2008. Filed under: Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , |

MySQL has become one of the most popular databases for Web applications. The database is well suited for common Web-related tasks like content management, and for implementing Web features like discussion boards and guestbooks. For a time, some developers avoided MySQL for commercial applications because it did not implement certain features, such as transactions. But [...]

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Setting up an OS X development server

Posted on January 29, 2008. Filed under: Apache, Hosting, Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , |

Okay, so this was very much a case of fumbling around in the dark until stuff worked, lot’s of Googling and breaking stuff. The end result is a dev server on OS X that is running Textpattern with clean URLs and a copy of WordPress for good measure. These notes are primarily so I don’t [...]

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Mac OSX Server FTP Server Administration

Posted on January 29, 2008. Filed under: Hardware, Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software, Xserve | Tags: , , , , , , , |

FTP Only Accounts Under Mac OS X
The following howto describes how to set up ftp only accounts using Apple Mac’s built in ftp server (lukemftpd).
This outline requires you to use the terminal, NetInfo Manager and have admin privileges on the machine in question.
Warning: You can muck things up quite seriously using NetInfo Manager. At the [...]

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Transfer Between Mac OSX Host with Windows XP Guest in VirtualBox

Posted on January 28, 2008. Filed under: Hardware, OSX, Servers, Software | Tags: , , , |

Until the latest version of VirtualBox (1.4.1) released for Mac, there are still no support for the Host Interface networking option enabled yet. Moreover, you even could not see the NIC card got working on Mac OSX running in some Intel Machine (Jas 10.4.8) since it didn’t recognized properly with the built-in driver. So, is [...]

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Mac OSX Server 10.4

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software, Xserve | Tags: , , , , , , |

Darwin: Kernel and BSD
Mac OS X Server starts with Darwin, the same open source foundation used in Mac OS X, Apples operating system for desktop and mobile computers. Darwin is built around the Mach 3.0 microkernel, which provides features critical to server operations, such as fine-grained multi-threading, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), protected memory, a unified buffer [...]

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Web Services With WebObjects

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Hosting, OSX, Software, Web Development, Xserve | Tags: , , , , , , |

Apple’s WebObjects is a comprehensive suite of tools and frameworks for quickly developing Java server applications. The release of WebObjects 5.2 allows developers to add standards-based web services to these applications, as well.
WebObjects gives you the ability to build or use web services without writing low-level SOAP, XML or WSDL documents. The WebObjects [...]

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Optimizing an Xserve for Web Hosting

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Apache, Hardware, Hosting, Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software, Xserve | Tags: , , , , , |

A single Xserve is ideally suited for smaller scale Web hosting, where the task is to host a handful of moderate-traffic sites. (With a fleet of Xserves, you could host an eBay or an Apple.com, but that’s a topic for another article.) The Xserve’s Apache Web server software has a multitude of configuration options. In [...]

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OSX Wiki Server

Posted on January 23, 2008. Filed under: Hardware, Leopard, OSX, Servers, Software | Tags: , , , , |

Mac OS X Server makes it easy for groups to collaborate and communicate through their own wiki-powered intranet website complete with group calendar, blog, and mailing list. Users can create and edit wiki pages, tag and cross-reference material, upload files and images, add comments, and search content with point-and-click ease.

Communication is key.
Whether it’s a small [...]

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Web Hosting

Posted on January 22, 2008. Filed under: Apache, Hosting, Leopard, OSX, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , , |

You don’t need to be an experienced webmaster to host your own home page, website, or Web 2.0 application with Mac OS X Server. With its intuitive administrative interface, you can immediately start up a static website or deploy even the most sophisticated of sites.

Powered by Apache.
Included in Mac OS X Server is Apache, [...]

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