Restart a simple website after Mojave upgrade

I’m not aware of a simple, turn-key way to do what you want with Mojave.

You can make Mojave serve web content by installing and migrating to a different web server and with a different management interface.

Or by rooting around in the latent Apache install in macOS and getting that to work for your requirements. (Apple documents that, too. See page 21ff.)

Or migrating to a different server platform. Another server operating system on x86-64 or other gear, or potentially a NAS box (and added plug-ins) such as those fro Synology and other vendors.

For an internal-only development web server and not one exposed to the open ‘net, MAMP is an option. (MAMP is intended as a development server, and not hardened for exposure to the open ’net.)

There are other options, as well. Not the least of which is hosting the content elsewhere.

Amen, to #APPLE providing these controls again!!!! ... this long Apple user canNOT stress that enough.

macOS Feedback

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They will not reply, but it does get read.

Hi Betty,

You pretty much can't do this because Server 5.7.1 no longer supports Websites. Server 5.7.1 will configure the Apache instance that listens on port 80 and port 443 as it sees fit, and any changes you try to make will likely be overwritten.

May I ask what services remaining in Server 5.7.1 (Profile Manager, OD, Xsan) are you using? If none, you would be better off removing Server.app and setting up your own AMP stack, or else installing High Sierra and Server 5.6.3 and moving your old Documents folder to this older server.

Hi Betty,

If you install Mojave, you must upgrade to Server 5.7.1. The older versions of server do not function on Mojave.

I'm not expert at configuring Websites, so I can't really offer you sound advice for doing what you ask on Server 5.6.3.

Hire or contract for some IT to deal with this for you, and to keep the various pieces and parts updated and secured—web servers are an ongoing effort, no matter the platform.

Or migrate to and host this all, particularly if this is exposed to the ‘net.

php5, for instance, is being deprecated at the end of this year.

As for Java, the current version of Oracle Java (Java 11) requires purchasing an Oracle license for commercial use, and check with Oracle for details and downloads for that. The download web site is at java.com.

I had the same issue. They moved the appache2 config files to the etc directory.

Log in as root, and you can easily go to etc/apache2 and make sure the config files are correct.

Then restarted the computer and bam, web services were back.

I don't use the Server App because I run Rumpus ftp on the same server and Server app does not like that.

It would be nice if Apple provided a nice GUI tool for Apache (virtual hosts), MySql, and PHP and permissions for web folders without glomming up all the virtual IPs so you can run a different ftp server and/or mailserver.

Please read the previously-linked Apple Apache document.

Off the top, configure a virtual host on a variant port? That doesn’t need a DNS translation...

Put something in the doc root?