etresoft thank you for your reply.
I am using the Apple firewall because my SonicWall is old and the Apple firewall has worked well for about 5 years.
I have been using apple computer for domain servers for more than 20 years without major problems.
During the last 5 years I have been serving 17 - 18 domains and they have worked very well until upgrading to Sequoia.
Many of the programs that come with the apple operating sustem make running a web server very easy including Apache and it ability to customize it using various modules such as:
LoadModule access_compat_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_access_compat.so
LoadModule actions_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule alias_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule allowmethods_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_allowmethods.so
LoadModule asis_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_host_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule authz_user_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule autoindex_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule brotli_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_brotli.so
LoadModule buffer_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_buffer.so
LoadModule cache_disk_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_cache_disk.so
LoadModule cache_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule charset_lite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_charset_lite.so
LoadModule data_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_data.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dav_lock_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_lock.so
LoadModule dav_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dbd_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dbd.so
LoadModule deflate_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule dialup_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dialup.so
LoadModule dir_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule dumpio_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dumpio.so
LoadModule echo_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_echo.so
LoadModule file_cache_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule http2_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_http2.so
LoadModule include_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule info_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule log_config_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule log_debug_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_log_debug.so
LoadModule log_forensic_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_log_forensic.so
LoadModule logio_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule macro_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_macro.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule mpm_prefork_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
LoadModule negotiation_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule php_module /opt/homebrew/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_express_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_express.so
LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_fcgi.so
LoadModule proxy_fdpass_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_fdpass.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_hcheck_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_hcheck.so
LoadModule proxy_html_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_html.so
LoadModule proxy_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_scgi_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so
LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
LoadModule ratelimit_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_ratelimit.so
LoadModule reflector_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_reflector.so
LoadModule remoteip_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_remoteip.so
LoadModule reqtimeout_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so
LoadModule request_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_request.so
LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule sed_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_sed.so
LoadModule session_cookie_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_session_cookie.so
LoadModule session_crypto_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_session_crypto.so
LoadModule session_dbd_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_session_dbd.so
LoadModule session_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_session.so
LoadModule socache_dbm_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_socache_dbm.so
LoadModule ssl_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_ssl.so
plus the support for perl, python and database management.
It is easy and free to create SSL certificates using LetsEncript which has a great website with step by step on how to set it up.
There is a lot of help online for a mac domain server.
Lastly it has been fun.
The Sequoia initially had options to allow incoming connections related to http and webservers. They appear to be turned off in Sequoia 15.2 but it has a microsoft.VSCode.helper option. What is that?
