WC:>: web servers for Macs

[Barry Lee Brisco]

>Barry wrote:
I know nothing about running a
>> web server. What about either of the two free Mac web servers out there:
>>
>> The common lisp hypermedia server
>> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html
>>
>> httpd4MaC
>> http://sodium.ch.man.ac.uk/pages/httpd4Mac/home.html
>>
>> are these hard to set up? Are they solid and reliable? I don't like to
>> install software on my Mac that I know nothing about. If I run them on my
>> local system, will the web files coded with absolute paths work
>> properly? I
>> don't want to re-code over 100 html pages!
>
>Barry, I can't answer your questions about the Mac web servers, but I can
>say that setting up a web server on your machine will probably be the "least
>sloppy" way to "solve" (converting to relative paths would provide more
>portability) your problem. On Win95/98 or NT installing web server software
>is pretty simple...chances are that the Mac packages are relatively easy to
>setup, too.


Jack, thanks for your comments. I was hoping that setting up a server on a Mac would not be too difficult. I downloaded the server at www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/ and ran the install. It's on my hard drive, but I can't make heads or tails of how to make it "go". Here's the beginning of the Mac-read-me.txt file:

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Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP)

1. Getting Started

Quick TCP/IP Start: Load the file mac-start-server.lisp into MCL 3.0.
This will compile the server and launch it running the demo Web
structure. This assumes you're running MacTCP over TCP/IP.


Heck, I don't even know what "MCL 3.0" is! (It doesn't seem to be explained anywhere) There are no files named like that in the server directories that were installed.


>Your other alternative is to do a search and replace on all files, replacing
>the absolute paths with relative paths. If you want to go that route, and
>need some tips, let me know.


Yeah, I have sort of resigned myself to doing that. BBEdit is great at running searhc-and-replaces but it has to be done _very_ carefully or things will get screwed up.

Barry
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