Hosting a basic website on my iMac.

Is there any software (bundled or third party) that would allow me to host a basic website on my iMac?
If there is, can someone link me to some information regaurding setting it up?

OS X is all the software you need!
Matt's right. OS X comes with the Apache web server already built in, which is very widely used, even for professional sites.
Go to System Preferences, Sharing, and tick "Personal
Web Sharing". Then place your site files in your
home/Sites folder.
You can access your site using
http://127.0.0.1
This part is a little incomplete, however. There are two places you can put your HTML documents. The first is in the main /Library/WebServer/Documents/ folder. You can find that folder by starting at the top level of your hard drive (i.e., double-click on your hard drive's name in the Finder, then "Library", then "WebServer", etc.). Sites in this folder will be visible at the address he gave. Also, http://localhost should work, too.
Secondly, you can place a web site in the "Sites" folder inside your user's Home folder. In order to access pages there, you have to add the user's name to the address. So if your user name was "wsender", you'd use this address:
http://127.0.0.1/~wsender or http://localhost/~wsender
to access your site.
best,
charlie

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manasses .
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