User manual
Table Of Contents
- Web Technologies Administration
- Contents
- Web Technologies Overview
- Managing Web Technologies
- Managing Websites
- Using Server Admin to Manage Websites
- Changing the Access Port for a Website
- Improving Performance of Static Websites (PerformanceCache)
- Enabling Access and Error Logs for a Website
- Setting Up Directory Listing for a Website
- Connecting to Your Website
- Enabling WebDAV on Websites
- Enabling a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Script
- Enabling Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Viewing Website Settings
- Setting Server Responses to MIME Types and ContentHandlers
- Enabling SSL
- Enabling PHP
- User Content on Websites
- WebMail
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Working With Open-Source Applications
- Installing and Viewing WebModules
- Solving Problems
- Where to Find More Information
- Glossary
- Index
52 Chapter 6 Working With Open-Source Applications
To enable mod_rendezvous_apple on Mac OS X Server:
m
To enable the module, use the Modules pane in Server Admin.
To set up mod_rendezvous_apple on Mac OS X Server:
m
To cause additional logging, which may be helpful if you discover a problem, find the
LogLevel directive in httpd.conf and change it to a more verbose setting, such as “info.”
Note: Whenever new users are added, restart web service so that their sites are
registered.
As always, follow the guidelines Apple has added as comments in configuration files.
They explain safe procedures for modifying those files.
Note that a user's home directory, which would include a Sites folder, might not be
present if the administrator added the user without creating a home directory for that
person. There are several ways to create a home directory, such as adding the home
directory in the Workgroup Manager application or using the command-line
createhomedir too to create the directory.
Here is a full description of the Apache configuration directives supported by
mod_rendezvous_apple.
RegisterDefaultSite directive
• Syntax: RegisterMachine [port | main]
• Default: No registration if directive is absent. Port defaults to 80.
• Context: server config
• Compatibility: Apache 1.3.x; Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server only
• Module: mod_rendezvous_apple
This directive controls how the computer name is registered on the default site with
Rendezvous.
The RegisterDefaultSite directive causes the registration of the default website under
the computer name, as specified in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. A port
number can be specified, or the keyword “main”; in the latter case, the port number of
the “main server” (outside any virtual hosts) is used. On Mac OS X Server, do not specify
“main,” because all externally visible sites are virtual hosts, and the main server is used
only for status. If the argument is omitted, port 80 is used.
If the directive is absent, the computer name is not registered.
Rendezvous details: This directive results in a call to the registration function, with an
empty string as the name (causing Rendezvous to use the computer name), with
“_http._tcp” as the service type (indicating a web server), and with an empty string as
the TXT parameter (indicating the default website).
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