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

    A Service-By-Service Guide For Moving Away From macOS Server

    I’ve been making guides to macOS Server since Server 2: Mountain Lion Server (Server 2) Yosemite Server (Server 3) Mavericks Server (Server 4) OS X Server 5 (for El Capitan) macOS Server 5.2 (for macOS Sierra) macOS Server 5.4 (for High Sierra) And along the way, I’ve also sold plenty of books on Mac Servers and gotten a lot of opportunities I might not have gotten otherwise. So thank you to everyone for joining me on that journey. After teaching so many how to use the services that Apple made available in their server operating system, when they announced they’d no longer be making many of the services my readers…

  • sites

    Mac OS X: MAMP, Apache for the Masses

    There’s a nifty little app called MAMP.  It allows you to distribute what amounts to a self-containing web based application.  Using MAMP you can install whatever you need in Apache and SQL and then zip it up and distribute it.  Ports can be customized so as not to adversely effect the system’s other Apache instances that may be running.  For example, Moodle…