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3 Managing Websites
Use the Server Admin application to set up and manage
the essential components of web service.
You administer websites on your server with Server Admin, an application that allows
you to establish settings, specify folders and paths, enable a variety of options, and
view the status of sites.
Using Server Admin to Manage Websites
The Sites pane in Server Admin lists your websites and provides some basic information
about each site. You use the Sites pane to add new sites or change settings for existing
sites.
To access the Sites pane:
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In Server Admin, click Web in the list for the server you want, click Settings in the
button bar, then click Sites.
The pane shows a list of sites on the server.
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To edit a site, double-click the site name.
Setting Up the Documents Folder for a Website
To make files available through a website, you put the files in the Documents folder for
the site. To organize the information, you can create folders inside the Documents
folder. The folder is located in the directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/.
In addition, each registered user has a Sites folder in the user’s own home directory.
Any graphics or HTML pages stored here will be served from the URL:
http://server.example.com/~username/.
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