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Running a Web Server on Mac OS X: Apache Made Simple

Posted by Hemos on from the running-the-webserver dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Having recently moved over to Mac OS X, I decided to look into running my own Web and FTP servers again from home. To my surprise, I discovered what many already know... that bundled into the underpinnings of Jaguar's networking framework was a distribution of Apache that appears as simple or robust as I want it to be."

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  1. This is why XRaid is so important by BoomerSooner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It will make the XServes truly ready for the big time (SCSI instead of IDE).

    With the G5's from IBM, an increased bus (900MHz is what I've been reading for a 1.8GHz 64bit processor), and an easy migration path for legacy (3 years is legacy now!) apps to move from 32 to 64bit (a la SPARC), and Oracle 9i. Apple is positioning itself to be a major player. I know my company is taking notice.

    All I want from Apple is a Apple PDA (I hate Palms) and a Tablet PC (screw MS). I build Healthcare software and both these products are a necessity.

    1. Re:This is why XRaid is so important by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I was thinking of internal hardware RAID as opposed to external solutions. Software RAID isn't bad, but it isn't as fast or as fault-tolerant.

      Also, with external storage, you lose the (minor) benefit of the 1U server, which isn't a problem in most situations.

      In conclusion, nevermind.

      --
      That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
  2. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/xserve/ by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'll have to watch the rollout, but when Jobs talks about Xserve RAID, he touches on the fact that it's hardware RAID, and uses the same disk packs as the Xserve (i.e., IDE). This DOES NOT, however, mean that it's "slow", just because it's not SCSI. As for adding your own Ultra160 SCSI-connected disk array, I'm lost on why you think that it must be Dell? All I'm saying is that if people are hell-bent on running SCSI for some reason, they're more than welcome to. If you're actually "thinking different" by switching to an all Apple solution as you indicated, you'd do well to consider the IDE-based Xserve RAID when it's available...because its performance will be very impressive.

  3. Re:thanks by goon+america · · Score: 3, Insightful

    np ya I went through a fair amount of frustation figuring out that problem myself. Use curl -I http://site/~whatever to look at the headers the server is sending for a particular url, that's part of how I figured it out.

  4. No by daveschroeder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, you're completely and totally wrong.

    1. There is no such product as "X-RAID" from Apple, nor will there ever be. It is called "Xserve RAID".

    2. Xserve RAID is ***NOT*** SCSI. It is connected via 2Gbps fibre channel (not SCSI), and its internal disks are ATA (not SCSI).

    See this post for the transcript of the Xserve RAID introduction:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=43540& ci d=4549231