Vizio’s

little step by step on how to configure Apache on your MACBOOK. Why configure and not install? because MAC OS X has already installed in an Apache Server.

Before I start I want to say that I’m a newbie of MAC after years of Windows and LINUX, so don’t be scared if I did it you  can do it as well btw, here what you need to do:

- open “System Preferences…“
- open “Sharing“
- tick “Web Sharing“
- if you have Sleep mode set, it will ask you to configure it because it says that if your computer is in sleep mode other users will not be able to connect on your webservice and bla bla bla…. so it’s up to you
- then you’ve finished, you’ll see 2 links

1 – Your computer’s website
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/

2 – Your personal website
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~yourusername

and if you click on one of the 2 links it will open your default web browser and shows you the apache welcome page for the first one and you default index page for your website.

ok but which is the root folder for my website?
where I can copy my files to see them online?
simple, the folder is in your home folder, named “Sites” you’ll find the default index.html file and an images folder.

another question I asked myself was:
Which version of Apache am I using?
this because I didn’t need to download it from the web and than “make” it, but I found it already installed on the system but like always I want to be the owner of my applications/services and so here we are, a simple check on the apache version:
(I think there are other ways to do that)

- open the

Terminal window ( Finder -> Go -> Utilities -> Terminal )

- type httpd -v
- press Enter

and the output will be like:
Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix)
Server built: Sep 23 2007 18:07:19

that’s it!!
I wrote it while I was setting up my apache on my MacBook and for me it worked, but it’s possible that I made some mistakes writing this so feel free to leave a comment, suggestions or just improvements for it

Vizio