Set up Mac as Web Server

Hello. I would like to use my Mac as a test server for people outside of my network. Can I do this using FTP Access and Personal Web Sharing, or do I need to install Apache or some other web hosting software? It appears people have to be on my local network to use FTP Access and Personal Web Sharing.

That's an entirely different issue, and one not related to your Mac.
In order to allow others to access your computer, you must has a route to it from the Internet. How you set that up will depend on how you are connecting. Do you have a static IP from your service provider, or a dynamic one? Are you connected directly, or behind a router/firewall?
A typical home setup might have a broadband connection that comes to a router that acts as a DHCP server, switch, and firewall for the local LAN. It will provide local IP addresses from a pool and configure them to route through the router to the Internet. In that scenario, you would need to turn on Network Address Translation (NAT) on the router, and configure a static IP address for your Mac. Then, you need to enter a port forwarding rule on the router to forward requests from the WAN (Internet) to the target machine. Once that's done, you need only point browsers to the WAN-facing IP address of the router and traffic will route to the specific IP address on your LAN. If you want to be able to address you computer by name, rather than IP address, you would also need to register a domain name and maybe use a service like dyndns.org (for dyanmically assigned WAN addresses).
How you do all that, precisely, is a matter for you and the documentation for your particular brand of router to work out. From the standpoint of your Mac, you're pretty much finished.

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Mac as web server

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Thanks

If the Express is acting as the router, you have to tell it to forward the port to your machine (port mapping).
From Airport Utility help:
Directing network traffic to a specific computer on your network
To ensure that requests are properly routed to your web, AppleShare, or FTP server, or a specific computer on your network, you need to establish a permanent IP address for the server or computer, and provide “inbound port mapping” information to the AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule.
To set up inbound port mapping:
Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a computer using Mac OS X, and in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a computer using Windows.
Select the device you’re setting up, and then click Manual Setup. Enter the password if necessary.
Click Advanced in the toolbar, and then click Port Mapping.
Click the Add button and choose a service from the Service pop-up menu (for example, Personal File Sharing).
Enter the IP address of the server in the Private IP Address field.
To use port mapping, you must configure TCP/IP manually on the computer that is running the web, AppleShare, or FTP server.
For more information about port mapping, see the document “Designing AirPort Networks Using AirPort Utility,” located at www.apple.com/support/airport.
I assume you enabled web serving through the Sharing pane of System Preferences so that the firewall will be automatically configured appropriately? If not, you'd need to take care of that.
Don't forget to make sure the machine is set to never sleep.
- cfr

Setting Up a Java Web Server on Linux

Greetings,
After a lot of reading, I've decided to learn Java server-side technologies (I already know Java (desktop)
but with little experience) in order to develop my database driven dynamic website projects.
However, I'm completed lost between the hundreds of acronyms related to Java and the "thousands" of technologies involved.
Google hadn't help me understand what they really are and how they relate with each other.
Even though is easy to find what they stand for and some faqs/descriptions, it hasn't been enought to clear my mind.
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Story Data on the database, from html forms.
Send automaticly emails for multiple users. (newsletter for example)
E-Commerce.
Html graber/parser (I don't know if this is the right word, I mean a program that for example, goes to a URL with an html
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Real Time Chat feature.
Database connection pooling, caching, and other important optimizations.
I'm not asking for how to develop or configure this features nor what components and programs, must be installed.
At the moment, I only want to know how to set up a Java solution that will support them when they are needed.
*** Linux ***
I want to set up my webserver on a linux distribution.
In that respect, I don't know if I should choose RedHat or Fedora Core.
I've heard that fedora is better for a webserver (having in mind that Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES aren't free).
But I've read in several sun turorials/webpages references to RedHat (on a J2EE context).
So I'm wondering if is better to go for Fedora or RedHat. Are there pros & cons? They equally support Java?
*** Technologies ***
Then in starts the acronyms problem.
What do I need to install, in what order, for what?
Some aconyms and technologies, I have read about but don't fully understand are the following:
Apache
J2EE
J2EE 1.4 SDK
SUN Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8
J2SE 1.4.2 SDK
SUN Java Enterprise System
Tomcat
Struts
Cocoon
JBoss
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J2SE SDK? or Tomcat?
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What is the Sun Java Enterprise System?
How do Struts, Cocoon, JBoss relate to Java?
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Then, I have some doubts that are keeping me from starting to study seriously the important techonologies, because I don't
want to lose lot's of time and effort learning them to after a dillusion start everything again with PHP (the language
which make me think and read a lot before going for Java). To keep this from happening, I would like to know the following:
I want to use Java for developing websites with commercial/profitable use for my company, in some throught e-commerce,
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------ Java is Free?
Is Java Completely Free or it might be possible that at a certain point, when I need some component or library,
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(http://www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/index.xml). What are the disavantages if stick to the free edition?
Features like (from sun site)
Standard Edition:
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Enterprise Edition:
Further extends the capabilities of the Standard Edition to provide continuous availablity for applications and
Web services. It is aimed at business critical, high value applications and Web services.
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is precisely not starting to learn something I may won't use. Obviously, I will have to make a lot of reading during maybe
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Apache is a free Web-server.
Tomcat is a servlet (and JSP) container. It can be stand-alone or can be used together with a Web server (like Apache).
J2EE's scope is much wider than the servlet stuff, but a standalone Tomcat is a good starting point to servlets and JSP.
One of our "real-world" applications is run by a standalone Tomcat using POI and Velocity. I did not regret this architectural decision.

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===Jac
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null

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Setting Up Mac Mini / iTunes Server Help

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The MacBook Pro is sometimes at work, or otherwise "off" in the house. I don't like having to go and turn it on, just to access my itunes library.
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Faganel, did you ever find a "Leopard Server as a Web-Server - Setup for Dummies" kind of guide or article?
If so, I'd really like answers and tips, to the same kind of questions you have.
I don't think this is the best forum, to ask for newbie-style advice. The people here are hard-working system-admins, who does web-server setups for a living, and they really don't have time, to answer questions like ours.
I've done dozens of Windows 2000 web-server setups at work, and the funny thing is, I could probably have helped you, had you gone with the Windows 2003 Server
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Is Mac OS X Server necessary in this situation?

My company is doing a trade show circuit. In our trade show booth, we will have 40 computers, which will allow people to signup for a service using a simple web form (submitted data stored in a MySQL database). Because of the exorbitant fees the shows charge for each computer connected to the internet, we want to put the signup form on a machine set up as a web server on the local network in the booth (so we don’t have to pay to connect all 40 machines to the internet).
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I set up Mac OS X server for our small company and tried resetting the password of my network account that is managed via profile manager.
So, under Accounts->User->MYUSERNAME->reset Password, I typed in a new one and hit ok.
Now I can't login to the server website anymore (for editing our wiki or using profile manager etc.), neither with the new one nor with the old one.
I already tried different passwords (resetting it again and again), I looked at the password directive, I checked my user name, tried to login from different computers and tried logging in with another account (which worked quite fine, so it's just my account). Finally I searched the internet for a solution for quite some time but didn't find anything similar.
It would be great, if somebody could offer some advice.
Best regards.
Lasse

Solved it by deleting the user and creating a new one with the same userID.
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WebLogic Server as Web Server.

Hi,
I am from WebSphere background and I'm pretty confused on how WebLogic works as a web server. With WebSphere, the web server will communicate with the application servers by using a plugin file. I understand that WebLogic has a similar plugin, but that is if I were to use a third party web server such as Apache or IIS.
From what I read here <http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs92/config_wls/web_server.html>, all I need to do is to configure a virtual host. Kinda different from what I read <http://e-generation.beasys.com/wls/docs81/cluster/setup.html#759939> which uses a HttpClusterServlet, but am using WebLogic 9.2 so probably this is not applicable?
My environment consists of 2 web servers and 2 app servers:
Clients will access the website using a virtual IP, which will be routed to the 2 web servers (we are using a hardware load balancer), and the 2 web servers will route the requests to both of the application servers which is clustered.
Questions:
1) So if I have created 4 instance of application servers, 2 of it I will configure it as a web server and the remaining 2 application servers will be clustered. In the virtual host setting, the target servers will be the 2 clustered application servers, no?
2) 'Virtual Host Names' are the domains that are to be served by this virtual host?
3) What is 'Network Access Point Name' exactly?
I don't enjoy myself asking these basic questions but I find this whole web server thing is pretty confusing. If anyone could point me to a more in-depth documentation on the concept and how to set up a weblogic server as a web server, that would be awesome. Appreciate any advice offered.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: 60doses on Feb 16, 2009 4:15 PM

please refer to the following link on how to set up weblogic as web server.
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/adminguide/web_server.html

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