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   Take Control of OS X Server, Chapter 10: Web Services

   Charles Edge

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Web Services

   The World Wide Web has untold millions of Web sites providing
   information and interactive services to billions of users. There are
   many ways to create and host a Web site these days, whether for an
   individual, family, club, school, or business'or as a staging site for
   another site to be hosted elsewhere. With OS X Server and a few minutes
   of configuration, you can have your own Web server.

   Note: The Websites and Wiki services are not related'you can set up a
   wiki without turning on Server's Websites service, and similarly, you
   can run a Web site that doesn't include a wiki.

   Although Server's Web services rely on the industrial-strength
   [5]Apache Web server software, setting up Server on your own Mac to
   serve a Web site has a few issues that you should consider before
   diving in:

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