[muglo] Re: Web site creating
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx>, muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:44:40 -0400
> When I turn on PErsonal Web Sharing in the System Preferences Pane and
> then type localhost/~eric (a dummy account that I don't use but that
> exist nonetheless with nothing in the Sites folder) I get a whole page
> with instructions (attached) about how to set up the folder.
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-- File: Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing.html
Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing
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Your website here.
You can use Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing to publish web pages or share
fileson the Internet —or on your company’s or school’s local
area network —from a folder on your hard disk.
You can display your documents on the Internet —or restrict access to a
chosen few within a local area network. Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing makes
it a snap.
Here’s how it works: Create your website by changing this page (it's
called "index.html" and it's in the Sites folder in your home folder) and
creating any other HTML pages you want.
Once you’re online, turn on Personal Web Sharing, then send your web
address to other people.
That’s it. You’re done —your page is ready for viewing.
HTML, anyone?
HTML is easy —so easy that even a first-time user can do it. That's
because you don’t have to learn HTML to use it.
Leading word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word and AppleWorks
6, actually generate HTML webpages for you with just a few clicks of a
mouse.
HTML —short for hypertext markup language —is what webmasters and
designers use to publish text and graphics on the Internet in a form that
canbe read by any web browser.
To create an HTML webpage in Microsoft Word, all you have to do is choose
Save as HTML from the File menu. Word will save your work as an HTML page,
ready for publishing on the Internet.
In AppleWorks 6, choose Save As from the File menu, then choose HTML from
thepop-up menu. Next, just type in the name you want to save the page with
and click the Save button, and it’s like boom —instant HTML.
Apache web server
Something you’ll notice about Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing: as server
software goes, it’s as stable as a block of granite. That’s
becauseit’s built on the Apache web server, one of the many
industrial-strength, industry-standard technologies that are part of the
modern Darwin core foundation underlying Mac OS X.
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Apache[1] is, in a nutshell, a continually evolving hunk of server software
that’s both free and priceless at the same time. One of the absolute
gems to emerge out of the open source movement, Apache is free in the sense
that it’s not proprietary. Programmers essentially have the freedom to
do what they want with the source code once they have it —provided they
pass along to other programmers the same rights and privileges to change and
modify the source code that they themselves had.
The Apache server started out as a project at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since
then Apache has been continuously developed and strengthened by members of
the open source community (who also helped develop certain core areas of Mac
OS X). The Apache server has earned such a reputation for rock-solid
reliability that it currently hosts over half the websites on the Internet
and almost all of the coolest and most heavily-visited ones. Including
Apple’s own website —and now yours, too.
For more information about using the Apache web server, see the Apache
manual[2]. Quick Start Guide to
Personal Web Sharing
1. Create the HTML pages for your website and put them in the Sites folder
inyour home folder.
Substitute your own content for the text, graphics, and links in this page
(index.html) to create a customized welcome page. Create other HTML page
following your application's instructions for linking pages and graphics.
2. Make sure you have a working network connection. If you need help, see
your network administrator.
3. Open System Preferences and click Sharing. Select Personal Web
Sharing and click Start.
4. Note the address for your website under the services list in Sharing
preferences. Be sure to copy the address exactly as it appears.
Give this address to the people on your network (make sure they don’t
forget that last “/”). They can connect to your server and view
your published documents by typing this address in their web browser.
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1 http://www.apache.org/httpd/
2 /manual/
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