10.6.2 Leopard Server Web Hosting Assistance

I recently obtained a Mac Mini Server running 10.6.2. Likewise I am a newbee Snow Leopard Server user.
I have been able to set up the server to the point of having the web page appear on 192.168.0.5 (local static server address). I have read a lot of literature, but still can not point the routers response to the qualified IP address to the the server (i.e. When I browse the IP address on the web browser if comes up blank). The LAN clients seem to binding and sharing as expected. Mail seems to be connected. I have configured the router to pass all port activity on to the server and I have set up the server's firewall to allow for certain service access.
I am sure that this is a simple oversight, which makes it that more frustrating.
Phil

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There are numerous walkthroughs and tutorials on this, I'm surprised you couldn't find something.
Short answer:
1) dump your web content (HTML files, images, etc.) into /Library/WebServer/Documents
2) Configure your router to forward connections on port 80 to your server (the specifics will vary depending on your router make/model)
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I haven't done so with a full blown help project or a WebHelp
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I've established a web-site for collaboration of planning for a state-wide NGO and a local citizens-government oversight commission.
I'm using Snow Leopard Server v10.6.4, to drive the web-site, which includes the use of wikis.
In creating a wiki and setting permissions, I find that I cannot set permissions for users or groups to 'read only' from the default 'read & write' while using Firefox. However, I CAN set them to 'read only' using Safari. And, once the permission has been modified in Safari, THEN it can be modified in Firefox.

Solution found at http://michaeljin.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/locked-out-of-mac-os-x-server/
It’s blog update time! Updates have been a little scarce lately, been super busy with getting trophies on PS3
Anyway, recently encountered the following with a Mac mini server running Snow Leopard Server:
Despite being able to ARD / Screenshare the Mac mini, I was unable to get any further than the login window. Authentication credentials are obviously valid. No weird access permissions have been set. However, the weird thing was, I can connect to the server via Server Admin tools (from another Mac) and all other services were running without a hitch.
After much head scratching it turns out to be a sACL (Service Access Control List) issue.
This thread solved the mystery!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1654864
To save you the trouble, I’ll lay it out here. I cannot take credit for this, but Randall can!
Open Server Admin on a computer (any), and connect with the local admin to the machine.
Select the server and authenticate.
Select Settings, then go to Access. You’ll want to make sure that Login Window and SSH have the local admin account listed if you select the option to “Allow only these users”. For now, I would suggest making sure all services have “Allow all users and groups” selected.
If (as in my case) it was set to Allow All in the first place, simply toggle the settings – back and forth.
Save.
Try logging in again… should be a good one!

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I have seen the posts for deskop 10.5.4 stuff for personal web sharing but that doesn't apply here.
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May 12 09:37:34 server jabberd/sm[2084]: version: jabberd sm 2.1.24.1-326.5
May 12 09:37:34 server org.jabber.jabberd[2082]: ERROR: router died. Shutting down server.
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I put together an article on my blog about Snow Leopard DNS setup for web hosting. http://www.mkahn.com/?p=279
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Open Directory (for network logins)
Software update;
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mySQL (localhost only - for moodle);
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Is there an easy/obvious way to do this?
I have a website hosted on OSX server 10.5 that I'd like to restrict access to, ideally based on group membership within Active Directory.
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I'm guessing it's a fairly common wish, and should be technically possible via LDAP or binding the server to AD etc.
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I have never tried to do it the way you say.
I tend to just bind the Client machines to the server and tick “Allow network users to log in at login window”
This way any user with a network account on Open Directory can log in to the machine.
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This way also makes life easier for them and you because the only have a single sign on for everything.

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I have my network setup like as follows:
internet > router 1 > ethernet ports > switch > router 2
I have a mac osx snow leopard server connected to "router 1", but it is so slow when accessing a web page hosted on the server from a browser on a workstation connected to either router 1 or router 2?
Is there a problem with my network setup or maybe because I changed the name to newservername.local?

@Jeff and @Camelot,
I think it is a DNS issue. I completely reset the DNS settings on server and the local name with the steps below, but now cannot access the site hosted on the server at all
I used a modified version of http://www.mkahn.com/2010/09/configuring-dns-on-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-serve r-for-hosting/ to reset the server set
1. Stop DNS Service in Server Admin
2. Close Server Admin
3. Obtain 10.6 DNS Default files (below)
4. Overwrite the DNS files with DNS Default files:
/etc/dns/loggingOptions.conf.apple
/etc/dns/options.conf.apple
/etc/dns/publicView.conf.apple
/var/named/named.ca/etc/named.conf
/var/named/named.local
/var/named/localhost.zone
5. Restart your server
All machines have 1ms ping responses within the network including this snow leopard server that I am trying to setup. There is another test web server that return pages instantly within this network so I doubt it is a network issue, but a DNS issue.

Host website and email on my Snow Leopard Server

Hi. I have a customer who currently has a hosting company for his emails and website. He recently bought a Mac Leopard Server which I set up on the network which now he wants to host his web site (be a web server) as well as his own Mail Server (with his email addresses hosted himself). The ISP provides him with a static IP address, he has a registered domain name with GoDaddy. How do I go about providing this service to him on the Mac Server and what do i fill in as the default DNS name on the Server? Additionally what ports do I open on the ISP firewall and how and where do I store the website files for hosting the the website? I prefer not to host DNS on this Server as it is a small network how can I configure the MX record for this site then? Thanks.

This is not a trivial task. Getting a Mac to act as a web server is trivial, provided you either can do with the default settings or are capable of managing an Apache web server. However, making that available on the web in general and making it the server responsible for maintaining the company web site is another thing entirely.
First, a static IP address is not the same thing as a connection appropriate for a web server. Unless your client has paid for an internet connection that will allow such use, his ISP may very well cut him off as soon as they discover he's using it to run a server. Paying for such a connection will be much more expensive than just paying for a static IP address. And unless he's really paying a lot, the site will be slower than most web sites.
Similarly, he's going to have to pay for someone to be on call 24-7 to fix server issues. He'll also need to have backup hardware in case of hardware failure. For example, if the hard drive in the server dies, he may not be able to afford a few days' downtime while a new hard drive is bought, the old one replaced and all the software and data reinstalled/restored on the new drive. If the site is at all important, I wouldn't consider anything less than a second server kept entirely synced with the primary one so they can be swapped out at a moment's notice.
Honestly, given all the extra costs of running your own server, it's actually cheaper to just pay for hosting on a decent service provider. (GoDaddy is not one I would consider decent, so if he's having issues, switching hosts is probably the better option.)
Now, if he just wants a small, in-house server that won't be seeing much traffic, that's definitely possible. But, as already pointed out, that would be better discussed on the server forums. Although some folks here will have experience setting up a web server on a standard copy of Mac OS X, many/most of them have no experience with Mac OS X Server.

Safari 3.x (Leopard) and Web Proxy Server Problems:

I have a Squid proxy server running on Linux. Users web traffic is directed through it via WPAD server which hosts a simple PAC file. The PAC files is very clean and small. It basically points all external (Internet) web traffic to our Proxy server. All of our Windows, Linux and Tiger clients work fine. However, Leopard (Safari 3.x) doesn't work quite right. Here's what happens:
Mac user logs into a Leopard 10.5 Mac. User launches Safari and tries to go to an external (Internet) site. The WPAD server is contacted and the Mac User is prompted to authenticate to the Proxy server. This is totally normal behavior thus far. Then, however, every few minutes the Leopard Mac user will be prompted to authenticate again (sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row!). Firefox 2.0.x, when configured to use the WPAD/PAC server and Proxy server, works fine in Leopard. Only Safari 3 in Leopard is having the problem.
All the Macs (Tiger and Leopard) are configured to use the Proxy server via OS X's Network Pref Pane (using the "Automatic Proxy Configuaration"). Reminder: Tiger works fine (even with the Safari betas), but Leopard's doesnt not.
I have attached our PAC file inline below (some things edited for privacy):
// SIMR automatic configuration for Mozilla and friends
// $Id: wpad.dat,v 1.8 2005/12/14 20:18:23 dct Exp $
// Edit carefully, since many may be relying on this...
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
// Bypass the proxy for internal addresses
if (!url.match("http:")
|| url.match("http://127.0.")
|| url.match("http://10.")
|| url.match("http://192.168.")
|| isPlainHostName(host)
return "DIRECT";
// These are exceptions given in the IE config for Windows.
if (host == "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"
|| host == "chabry.caltech.edu"
|| host == "flybase.bio.indiana.edu"
|| host == "www.fedex.com"
|| host == "domain.org"
return "DIRECT";
return "PROXY <proxy server>:8080";
}

I think I have a similar problem. I am a Mac connecting to an otherwise all PC school network.
A new location with all correct proxies has been set up. However, Safari always crashes on first attempt to negotiate its way through our server to the internet. Internet explorer gets through because in its preferences it is possible to include the name of the school domain as well as my user name and password.
We have been unable to find any way of including the domain name into Location in Network or into Safari.
However, once Internet Explorer has negotiated with the server I can launch Safari and it works as normal.
Safari/Network seems to lack this option of including a domain name that my PC server requires.
Make sense to anyone?
Worth mentioning that my copy of Internet Explorer (5.2) often crashes, but usually it has done its job by then. I quite like the concept of Internet Explorer sacrificing itself to clear a path for Safari.

Leopard Server Assistant and DNS Name

I am trying to setup Leopard Server in my home...
Server assistant launches I fill in the information and everything is fine... except I do not know what to put in the Server DNS name box. If I leave as is the server tools do not start because they cannot resolve the machine name.
In short what is going on...
1. How do you change the machine DNS name after server assistant has finished running?
2. What should I put in the DNS box?
MACServer.local? or MACSERVER
3. If I move to Dynamic DNS how do I change this later without having to re-install.
I have to admit that setting the server up, installing disks was easy but the DNS issue seems to be a real stumbling block for setting up a home server.
What am I doing wrong?
Message was edited by: Peter Jarvis
Message was edited by: Peter Jarvis

Tony,
Thanks for the response.
My concern is that a normal home user will not be able to setup MAC Server 10.5 very easily without knowledge of DNS. (I will walk through a setup later on in the mail)
My point is that the average user will not be able to setup MAC Server. They will have difficulty filling out the setup wizard correctly - for this reason I cannot recommend it to a rookie. What is needed is a really simple setup scenario script that can be given to user so they can setup a MAC server in the home to support file sharing, intranet web browsing and time machine backups and central storage for users.
Don't get me wrong a MAC admin will find the changes in 10.5 a significant and fine improvement over past mac server setups and a leap frog over the Windows and Linux setup experience. Don't let anyone persuade you that Microsoft Home Server is a easy either. (Actually corrupts data with certain apps) - great testing Microsoft
Back to good software...
MAC Server Setup example: (Newbie the new IT for the household)
Prior to setting up the server Newbie will need to define his system setup...
i.e.
Server Name [email protected]
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Router: 192.168.0.1
Is the machine going to be a gateway or behind a firewall?
Will it distribute IP addresses for the home network etc?
These points are important as the DHCP and DNS go hand in hand. If the router is acting as a DNS relay and handing out IP addresses this may interfere with setting up the server to be primary DNS provider in the home.
Walkthrough 1: Scenario:
Setup the server to be a simple server with only file sharing, web server and time machine.
When asked Newbie enters:
Domain name: pkjserv.technophobic.com
Server Name:192.168.0.100 (DHCP) or manual
Nebie configures the server...
after setup the first thing that will happen is that Server Preferences will launch it will populate with the above server data...
Problem: Newbie trys to use server preferences and types in his password and fails to get access...
Why... because Server preferences expects "pkjserv.technophobic.com" to resolve but DNS is not setup yet...
OK so Newbie needs to setup DNS...
Newbie selects Applications/Server/Server Admin.app
(Newbie uses Magic to find Server Admin)
First prompt "Are you sure you want to use Server Admin?"
Newbie selects "Use Server Admin"
(Newbie uses Magic to know he has to do this)
Connect to server via IP address 168.192.0.100
Select DNS add click to box...
Expand 192.168.0.100 (our server)
Select DNS
Select zones...
Add primary zone / Select example.com
Change Primary zone to "technophobic.com."
Select "ns" and Change Nameserver to "pkjserv"
Under primary domain select machine change machine name to "pkjserv"
Select IP Addresses and change to 192.168.0.100
Click "save"
Newbie should have the following setup displayed:
Name Type Value
technophobic.com Primary Zone -
pkjserv Machine 192.168.0.100
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa Reverse Zone -
192.168.0.100 Reverse Mapping pkjserv.technophobic.com
------- Start DNS...
The problem here is that DNS is working but Newbies IP setup is still not referencing the DNS server so newbie will have to add it to the network settings.
Preferences / Network / advanced / DNS
once they have done this Newbie should be able to launch your browser and type "pkjserv.technophobic.com" and have it resolve to the web browser on the machine...
in short - this is difficult... hence my proposal that Apple need to create a simple setup scenario scripted document (fill in blanks) so a user can setup a MAC server in the home. Current docs do not allows an average user to install MAC OSX Server - I want a simple MAC Server that anyone can install...
Pete
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OS X Server take the place of QuickMail and web host email?

Hi All,
I have been doing quite a bit of searching in the forums and with google.
Here is what our situation currently is:
Cable modem with dynamic IP address. Web hosting account with JaguarPC.com for our Internet email. Clients are all running with Leopard Mail app on either iMacs or MacBooks. We are using Mail app for the Internet messages (sending and receiving). That part works fine.
G5 tower running OS X Server 10.3 for all of our file serving needs.
We are using the latest/last version of QuickMail (not very recent!) for all LAN/Intranet messaging. QuickMail used to run fine in the OS 8 & 9 days, but each update of OS X causes it to be more unstable and unreliable.
What our goal is would be this:
Same Internet connection (cable modem + dynamic IP). Same web host. BUT, we would like to have our OS X Server (10.3) take the place of QuickMail AND use the Mail app for both the Internet messaging and all of the LAN/Intranet messaging.
Is this possible? If so, if you would be so kind, could you throw some hints, tips and or links our way to help set this up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Troy

Same Internet connection (cable modem + dynamic IP). Same web host. BUT, we would like to have our OS X Server (10.3) take the place of QuickMail AND use the Mail app for both the Internet messaging and all of the LAN/Intranet messaging.
Out of the box, no, you can't do this.
The internal mail is easy - you can do whatever you like on your own network. The issue is in running external mail.
There are all kinds of issues in running external mail on a dynamic IP address, mostly as a result of spam (many ISPs, including all the big guys will not accept mail from dynamic IP addresses because it's likely spam).
That's not to say you can't run a mail server per se, but if half your mail doesn't get to the recipient (and you can't predict which ones will), it's hardly viable.
You do have options, though. First you could configure your mail server to relay all outgoing mail through your ISP. Since you're on their network they are obliged to accept mail from you and they'll forward it to the appropriate domain via one of their mail servers. That takes care of outgoing mail.
Incoming mail is a whole different issue. On a dynamic IP address there's no way to tell other domains where your mail server is. The typical solution for this is to have some other mail server (on a static address) accept your mail and hold it for your mail server that periodically checks in and retrieves the mail via ETRN.
Ironically, QuickMail does this very well (it really was one of its strengths). Postfix (the mail server included in Mac OS X Server) can do this, but it's not supported via Server Admin (the GUI used to configure the server), so you'll have to get under the hood and configure it - as well as find an upstream mail server that supports ETRN.
For postfix, check the Postfix ETRN guide. For the mail server, ask your ISP if they support ETRN (you'll likely need to get to at least second-level support since the first-level folks probably can't even spell it ).

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