[larrinski]

Ok, I am new to this, so please be kind... The Apple site makes it seem really easy to get a web page up and running. As I haven't done it before, I thought "great"! I wrote some text, and saved it as test.html . I replaced the index.html in /sites. I open the site from System Preferences and it gives this message."Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~Pake/ on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at hal.local Port 80." That message is from clicking the personal website. The computer website sends me to an intro page for Apache. I obviously have missed something important here, but an hour of google searching as provided no answers. Some newbie questions, 1) if I want to share my iphoto library or create a folder with selected photos in it, how do I get it onto the web site? 2) Do I just play around in Neooffice and save as test.html and replace the index.html file? 3) What is the images folder for? I placed a bunch of files and photos in there but nothing seems to show. 4) Does anyone have a link to a site that can teach me the basics of creating a website in OSX? I think that's it on this round... Thanks in advance...

[Randman]

OK, do you have .Mac? And are you talking about Sites for .Mac? If not, the Sites folder on your Mac is an inbox, so to speak, not a web box.

For a website design, you'd need some kind of online hosting. .Mac works well, naturally, with iPhoto and you can customize it with third-party apps if you wish. Can click on my sig for some examples.

[Chuckit]

Just to make sure: When you say "replace the index.html file," you mean save the test.html file as index.html, right?

Also, did you save this file as the user "Pake" or another user?

As for how to create a Web site, there are plenty of sites that explain that better than I could in a post. Creating a site isn't much different on OS X than it is on any other platform. OS X just provides the server.

[larrinski]

"When you say "replace the index.html file," you mean save the test.html file as index.html, right?
Also, did you save this file as the user "Pake" or another user"

I have renamed the test.html as index.html and saved it in Pake/Sites while in user Pake.

"For a website design, you'd need some kind of online hosting. "

I thought that my computer was the host( isnt host the same as server?). I am with Shaw in Canada with a cable modem. They do offer web sites under a specific URL including your email name in the title. The directions for the Apache/ Personal web sharing said nothing about someelse having to host my website. It just says to save it to sites and give people the address. Boy this seems a lot harder than they make it out to be...

[CaptainHaddock]

Boy this seems a lot harder than they make it out to be

Well, it's a lot simpler than in Windows.

While you can certainly host a full-fledged website on your Mac if you want, the Sites folder is intended more for testing websites (if you're a developer) and hosting private web pages on your network.

Make sure you've turned on web sharing in the Preferences panel. If you've done that, any page in your /Sites folder should be viewable by the outside world. Index.html is the default page, naturally. The address will be something like http://computername.local/~Pake/.

Also, your web page should show up in the Bonjour menu of Safari on the other computers on your network (if you have a network).

[nbnz]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock

If you've done that, any page in your /Sites folder should be viewable by the outside world. Index.html is the default page, naturally. The address will be something like http://computername.local/~Pake/.

To be visible to the outside world, the "computername.local" would be your IP address.
"computername.local" only works on the local network.