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13 Configuring and Managing Web
Technologies
Use this chapter to learn the commands to configure and
manage Web service and the web components on your
server.
Web technologies in Mac OS X Server consist of several components that provide a
flexible and scalable server environment. This chapter covers the commands that are
used to configure and manage these web technologies, referred to as Web service.
For more information, see Web Technologies Administration.
Understanding Web Service
Apple’s Web service is based primarily on Apache. Apache is one of the most popular
and versatile web servers, and is a community-based, open-source project. Apple has
extended Apache in a number of ways to implement Mac OS X–specific features.
Mac OS X Server includes the following versions of the Apache HTTP Server:
 Version 1.3—This is the officially supported version on Mac OS X Server. It is a
well-tested, stable, reliable software package used worldwide for many years. In this
chapter, references to the Apache server refer to this version.
 Version 2.0—This is an evaluation version that includes several new features,
including multithreading and an improved API for plug-in modules. However, the API
changes make many third-party modules incompatible with this version.
The locations of Apache 1.3 files on Mac OS X Server are slightly different from a
traditional Apache installation. The following table identifies the major folders.
Files Location
Application binaries /usr/sbin/
CGI applications /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
Configuration files /etc/httpd/
Default documents /Library/WebServer/Documents/