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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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<strong>Leopard</strong> As a Web<br />

Server<br />

There are several reasons why you might want to host a web site on <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X. Probably<br />

the most common is so you can develop web sites on your local machine before uploading<br />

finalized updates to your server.<br />

Apache<br />

<strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X comes with the world’s leading open source web server, Apache 2, already installed.<br />

All user accounts on your machine can host a Sites folder, which contains that user’s personal<br />

home page, as shown in Figure 22-1.<br />

Figure 22-1. The default web site in Safari<br />

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