Week 10: Serving Up Our Server

This week our goal was to get simple code to run on our web server.  Because I have a different version of Mac OSX (10.8), Web Sharing was no longer an option.  Instead we used apachectl in the terminal to get the server running.

From there, we enabled Virtual Hosts and created a simple html script to print out a result message.  We accessed these files in /private/etc. The only files we needed to modify were httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and hosts:

In httpd.conf, we just uncommented the Virtual hosts line, "Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"

Unfortunately, it seems we can access the default data in local host or the data in our test website, but not both (i.e. we can't have both available to choose between them).  We think it is some problem in httpd.conf, but we're not quite sure how to fix it quite yet. 

But progress!!

Goals for next week:

1. Get both localhost data and test-website.local data to display when we want
2. Enable CGI on our Apache server in order to link data to where we want it and run different apps