Configuring web services is as easy in OS X Mountain Lion Server (10.8) 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 the stock OS X Server page loads, you are ready to use OS X Server as a web server. Before we setup custom sites, there are a few things you should know. The first is, the server is no longer really designed to remove the default…
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Disabling and Redirecting CalDAV (aka Lion and Apache2)
Lion Server moves a few things around. Not only in regards to a little window dressing in the GUI apps, but also under the hood. One such example is the /ical extension often used to direct users to iCal’s little section of the web portal in OS X Server, no longer around in Lion. One could just redirect requests for /ical to /webcal as was done previously. But what if you wanted to actually redirect the CalDAV traffic to look at a directory other than /calendars on the web server (e.g. maybe your site already uses /calendars). To do so, check out /etc/apache2/servermgr_web_apache2_config.plist. About half way down are the proxies…