Serving a few local network sites, best way forward?
I occasionally do a bit of web design and off and on have hosted a few sites on my local network. Today I took on a bit more ambitious project to locally host a weather station.
Most of my day disappeared as I ran into a load of changes to the "WebServer" since the last time I fooled with it. I am running Mavericks and the last time I did much with the webserver was probably OS 10.4.
Just getting the default "It works!" page to come up was a chore and I really have no idea why it didn't work or how I got it to work.
Right now, I am discovering that I don't seem to be able to change the file permissions on folders and files in the
MyComputer>Libraries>WebServer>Documents directory which is where some of the advice I am reading suggests putting my sites.
The old standby of GetInfo and changing the permissions does not seem to work, nor does the advice to:
sudo chown -R :admin /Library/WebServer/Documents
sudo chmod -R g=rw,+X /Library/WebServer/Documents
All this has me wondering if the changes to OS X mean that the best route to doing what I want to do is to use OSX Server? The reviews on that piece of software are terrible though most speak to problems with VPN which I don't need.
Whichever way I go, there needs to be a simple way to clear out the old configurations and get my old sites moved to the "Right" place. Right now I am seeing dozens of index.html.en pages and the search is not even showing the files in the MyComputer>Libraries>WebServer>Documents