Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™ Server For Dummies®

Chapter 13. Hosting Web Sites and Wikis

In This Chapter

• Using and managing the built-in wikis, logs, calendars, and Webmail

• Managing and hosting Web sites with Server Preferences

• Hosting Web sites with Server Admin

Any server can host a Web site, but Snow Leopard Server creates a complete, dynamic site for you, prebuilt. By merely turning on Web services, every user gets an automatically updated Web portal called My Page. Users get access to a collaborative environment that includes wikis, blogs, Web calendars, Webmail, and mailing lists. Users can edit these with a few mouse clicks. The site uses wiki technology, which enables group editing of content with a Web browser. Wiki Server 2, introduced with Snow Leopard Server, enables all this.

Mac OS X Server can also host Web sites for use in your organization and for publishing to the Internet. At the heart is the powerful, industry standard open-source Apache Web server. You can set up Apache, fine-tune it, and administer it from Server Admin software. But, you can also do a lot with Server Preferences to set up Web sites.

This chapter doesn't tell you how to design or build a Web site. I can't even tell you everything that you can do with Snow Leopard Server's Web services — that'd fill a whole book by itself. So, first, I describe the Web site that Snow Leopard creates for you and how to alter it. I then describe using Server Preferences to manage the Web services, as well as show you what you can do with Server Admin for more advanced ...