[Macpartners] Personal Web Sharing under Panther (10.3.2)

[Albert Willis]

Check out  
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/05/09/apache_jaguar_pt4.html  
which explains a lot of what you want to know about.

   -- Al

On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Carolyn Fuller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm hosting a web site on my Mac G4 using Personal Web Sharing under  
> Panther (10.3.2) with web pages placed into  
> Library/WebServer/Documents.
>
> I have two problems that I've been told are related:
>
> 1) Library/WebServer/Documents/index.html is not recognized as my home  
> page. But Library/WebServer/Documents/index.html.en is recognized as  
> the home page.
>
> 2) If I click a link from my home page the URL is converted from my IP  
> Address name (fuller.mit.edu) to "fuller.local" which works from any  
> computer on our LAN but breaks from elsewhere.
>
> I've been told I need to modify my Apache config file to recognize  
> index.html and that this will fix the "local" problem. It will also  
> protect my home page from being overlaid when a new version of Apache  
> is installed!
>
> I think I've found the config file:
>
> System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Apache/ 
> httpd_conf.pm
>
> Is this the right file? If so, what do I modify?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---
> Carolyn Fuller
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Information Services and Technology
> Administrative Computing
> Senior Analyst/ Programmer
> (617) 253-6213
> http://fuller.mit.edu/
>
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