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Hosting website on Your own Mac or Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server?

I have been looking at ways of hosting my websites on my own Mac - how could I do this other than purchasing a copy of Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server?

I know you can turn on file sharing, but how can you display your sites?
Can you host more than one site with domain names and does this mean that you would be able to ditch web hosting with a company if the sites were hosted on Mac or Mac OSX Server?

Thanks for any help that anyone can give me with this.

MacBook Core 2 Duo, iPhone, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Dec 22, 2010 11:32 AM

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Dec 23, 2010 4:44 AM in response to Ethmoid

Ethmoid wrote:
I know you can turn on file sharing, but how can you display your sites?

The key appears to be turning on Web Sharing within Sys Pref's Sharing pane. Also, THIS Apple page says: +"Every Mac user has a Sites folder in the home directory automatically configured for local hosting within Apache."+ And the following Apple doc says: +"You can also share a website on your computer by placing files in /Library/WebServer/Documents on your hard disk."+:

_Mac OS X 10.6 Help — Sharing a website on your computer_

The second of these two articles is old, but still may be useful:

_How to Turn Your Mac Into a Web Server_

_Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 1_

And this article asks the qstn:

_Should I host my own web server?_

...More articles related to hosting a website on your Mac may be found HERE.

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