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>From: William McKee <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8985 OS-X Server Question
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:28:22 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum   
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Dear Jeremiah,

I am using Leopard (on a Mac Mini, not an Xserve) as a web server and  
found that it uses a version of Apache 2.2. The apache website has  
tons of good documentation on configuring and running their web  
server software. ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ )

I have configured it with the additional OpenSSL, PHP and Perl  
modules and they all work well. The configuration control files are  
located in "/etc/apache2" directory. After changing the files,  
remember to restart the web server with "apachectl restart".

Check your "/var/log/apache2/error_log" file to get an idea why your  
web server is crashing.

To use passwords to control access to parts of your website, check  
out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html.

Leopard's GIU interface is great but it's good to be familiar with a  
Darwin/Unix command shell (I use "bash") to configure and control  
your Xserve.

All the best,
Will.

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Asia Communication Quebec Inc.
http://www.cjkware.com


On 22-Oct-08, at 5:42 PM, LLTI-Editor wrote:

Greetings one and all!

Here at Hamilton College, we recently procured a high end XServe for
use with our language materials. Two quad core processors, 8 GB's of
Ram, and tons of hard drive space paired with OS X Leopard. The server
is fully patched.

There are two issues we're facing. The first one is a web-based one.
Currently the server operates as a file server, but we want it to do
more. I'm having an issue getting the web interface to work correctly.
The control panel that turns on the web services crashes when I
activate the service. The panel itself is fine - but the web service
"turn on" sequence crashes & burns and won't turn on.

The second issue we're having is an issue with permissions. We want to
be able to share the media files we have on campus, but need them to
be password protected due to copyright issues. I prefer to keep the
server away from the "active directory" servers on campus - I've heard
bad things about it. I'd rather not add to a situation more variables.

Any ideas?

Jeremiah Spoon
Language Center Coordinator/Technologist
315.859.4792



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Asia Communication Quebec Inc.
http://www.cjkware.com





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