A while ago with the Code Red virus making an ass of Microsoft and its users, many cable internet providers (including mine) started blocking port 80, the default port that web pages are served on. Now I’m using DSL and serving on port 80 again, but to work around ISP blocking of port 80 I […]

I wanted a page of my site to be password protected. Using something called .htaccess with apache you can control who has access to your site. Remember this is not a high security solution, but something to keep regular folks out of certain sections of your site. I learned most of this from Justin Miller’s […]

This works if you are running OS X 10.2.3 or (hopefully this will work with future updates too) later.Apple ships apache with OS X. It also ships with php, but is disabled by default. With a single click of the mouse at the sharing control panel you can start serving a web page […]

To edit some config files that control how certain aspects of your OS X machine operate, (for example, your webserver) you need to be able to edit certain files as “root”. If you don’t know what “root” is, you shouldn’t be doing it, or you need to do a bit more research.
There are a number […]