Posted by : Dennis Sellers Mac Advisorhed: Be a webmaster with Mac OS Xdek: OS X is the easiest platform for a personal or SOHO Web site.by Dennis Sellers

Did you know that if you can point and click, you can be a webmaster and run an Apache Web server on your Mac, especially if you're using Mac OS X?

But wait--let's back up and explain. You probably know that Mac OS X is Apple's new operating system, which puts a Mac user interface body on a Unix engine. Not only can it run classic Mac software and applications built especially for it, but it also runs some of the best open-source programs, including Apache, a Web server that, in fact, forms the basis for Mac OS X's file-sharing capabilities.

Open source is a term for the historical development model used by the Internet community to facilitate the distributed development of software. The basic idea: involve as many people as possible in writing and debugging code by publishing the source code and encouraging the formation of a large community of developers who will submit modifications and enhancements.

Apache is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1-compliant Web server known for its stability. It's highly configurable, and can be extended with third-party modules. Apache is the world's most popular Web server, powering more than 60 percent of Internet domains, according to Netcraft's June 2001 Web Server Survey.

Mac OS X has a Web Sharing feature. But, you may say, the "traditional" Mac operating system has ...

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