Also, Mountain Lion Server added web apps, which we’ll briefly review later in this article as well, as those continue in Mavericks Server, Yosemite Server, and ultimately in OS X Server 5 for El Capitan. You don’t have to spend a ton of time looking for it as it isn’t there. Instead just add sites, which is covered next. Also, don’t remove the files that comprise the default site. So if you remove the site, your server will exhibit inconsistent behavior. The first is, the server is no longer really designed to remove the default website. Provided the stock OS X Server page loads, you are ready to use OS X Server as a web server.īefore we setup custom sites, there are a few things you should know. Once running, click on the View Server Website link at the bottom of the pane.

To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button.Īfter a time, the service will start. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in OS X Server, running on Yosemite and El Capitan, as it has ever been.

Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. Web Services in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to.

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