• Synology

    Install Web Services on a Synology

    Web services was always easy to install on macOS Server and it’s no different on a Synology. To do so, open Package Manager from the home screen.Click All in the sidebar and enter web into the search box.Click Web Station.Click Install. This installs a few dependencies. Click Open once the install is finished.Click General Settings. Note that the default web server is Nginx. You can install Apache and then Apache will be available in the HTTP back-end server list. If you’ll be using a different service (Apache) then do the switch before you proceed. Otherwise (or after you switch to Apache), click on Virtual Host.Click on Create.Click into the hostname field…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Websites and Apache on macOS Server 5.4 on High Sierra

    Web Services in macOS Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in macOS Server 5.4, running on High Sierra (10.13), as it has ever been. To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button. After a time, the service will start. Once running, click on the View Server Website link at the bottom of the pane. Provided…

  • Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Run A Web Server On Apache Using OS X Server 5

    Web Services in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in OS X Server, running on Yosemite and El Capitan, as it has ever been. To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button. After a time, the service will start. Once running, click on the View Server Website…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Running A Web Server On OS X Yosemite Server

    Web Services in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in OS X Mavericks Server (10.9) as it has ever been. To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button. After a time, the service will start. Once running, click on the View Server Website link at the bottom…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Setting Up And Using Web Services in OS X Mavericks Server

    Web Services in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Linux and most versions of Unix are provided by Apache, an Open Source project that much of the Internet owes its origins to. Apache owes its name to the fact that it’s “a patchy” service. These patches are often mods, or modules. Configuring web services is as easy in OS X Mavericks Server (10.9) as it has ever been. To set up the default web portal, simply open the Server app, click on the Websites service and click on the ON button. After a time, the service will start. Once running, click on the View Server Website link at the bottom…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Using OpenSSL to Test Connectivity

    When you’re testing connectivity to servers and you’re using SSL on those servers then your traditional ways of testing connectivity may been a little augmentation. For starters, you’re going to use the openssl to test connections. For example, if you have a web server you might traditionally attempt to telnet into port 80 and check you banners; however, if you have an SSL certificate on it then you might be better served connecting to port 443 using the openssl command. In the following example we’ll tell openssl to be a generic client (s_client)  and connect (-connect) to https://krypted.com/ over port 443: openssl s_client -connect krypted.com:443 The output would then look…