User manual

Chapter 3 Managing Websites 53

To enable PHP:

1 In Server Admin, click Web for the server you want.

2 Click Settings in the button bar.

3 In the Modules pane, scroll to php4_module in the module list and click Enabled for

the module, if necessary.

4 Click Save.

User Content on Websites

Mac OS X client has a Personal Web Sharing feature, where a user may place content in

the Sites folder of his or her home directory and have it visible on the web. Mac OS X

Server has much broader web service capability, which can include a form of personal

web sharing, but there are important differences between Mac OS X client and

Mac OS X Server.

Web Service Configuration

By default, on Mac OS X Server:

• Web service ignores any files in the /etc/httpd/users/ folder.

• Workgroup Manager does not make any web service configuration changes.

• Folder listings are not enabled for users.

All folder listings in web service use Apache’s FancyIndexing directive, which makes

folder listings more readable. In Server Admin, the Sites/Options pane for each site has

a Folder Listing checkbox. This setting enables folder listings for a specific virtual host

by adding a “+Indexes” flag to Apache’s Options directive for that virtual host. If folder

listings are not explicitly enabled for each site (virtual host), file indexes are not shown.

The site-specific settings do not apply outside the site; therefore site-specific settings

do not apply to users’ home directories. If you want users to have folder-indexing

capability on their home directories, you need to add suitable directives to Apache’s

configuration files. For a specific user, you add the following directives inside the

<IfModule mod_userdir.c> block in the httpd.conf file:

Options Indexes MultiViews

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>