A Guide to “Things Webmastering” on the Net... (including Servers, HTML, CGI’s, BBS’s & CMS’s) (Other “Things Mac” pages: Users | MacOS X | UNIX | eMail | Developer )

Apache Server Apache HTTP Server Project Apache Server Directives Apache Core Features Apache Content Negotiation – Smarten up your server to make filename extionsions optional Securing Apache: Step By Step – How to harden Apache ModSecurity – Intrusion detection/prevention system protects web applications from attacks Apache Desktop Reference 404 Research Lab – 404 Redirection/handling, info and history A Users Guide to URL Rewriting with the Apache Webserver Module mod_rewrite – URL Rewriting Engine Mod Rewrite – URL Rewriting Module .htaccess module AWStats – Open Source logfile analysis tool Summary – Commercial logfile analysis tool Analog – Free server log analysis tool TLS/SSL Apache 2 with SSL/TLS:, Part 1 – How to install, configure, and troubleshoot Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support Apache 2 with SSL/TLS:, Part 2 – Recommended settings Intrusion SecurityFocus – Keep abreast of exploits The Coroner’s Toolkit (TCT) – Collection of programs by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema for a post-mortem analysis of a UNIX system after break-in Top 75 Network Security Tools AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment; a free Tripwire replacement Snort – Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System Tripwire – Intrusion detection tool DD’s Ultimate Guide to Mac OS Security – Portal for MacOS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD WebDAV Do it Yourself .mac – Set up a MacOS X WebDAV server WebDAV – A primer from O'Reilly Network WebDAV Resources – Documentation, specifications, software, mailing lists, etc. WebDAV FAQ mod_dav – A WebDAV module for Apache Apache based WebDAV Server – How-To on installing an Apache based WebDAV server with LDAP for authentication and SSL encryption Papers and Articles – Overviews, in depth, design philosophy, etc. WebDAV protocol comes of age – InfoWorld article Goliath – A WebDAV client for Mac sitecopy – Synchronize remote directories to a local one IETF WEBDAV Working Group – Various resources RFC 2518 – WebDAV Technical Spec’s How do I configure my computer to use WebDAV? What is WebDAV? Remotely Managing Mac Web Sites Using WebDAV – Written for Panther or Tiger Enabling WebDAV on Apache – Multi-platform (with notes for MacOS X) Serve Your iCal Calendars Using WebDAV – Written for Jaguar Enabling WebDAV on OS X for Use With iCal – Written for Jaguar Publish iCal calendars with local WebDAV server – Written for Jaguar Validators CSS Validator – Free service from the World Wide Web Consortium HTML Validator – Free service from the World Wide Web Consortium Walidator – Validate your XHTML, HTML, CSS, RSS, RDF, etc. W3C Link Checker – Free service from the World Wide Web Consortium Dead-links.com – Link Validation Spider WebXACT – Validate HTML for accessibility to people with disabilities (e.g. Section 508 and WCAG) CSS Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 – The definitive reference to CCS Learning Cascading Style Sheets – From the World Wide Web Consortium CSS Zen Garden – A demonstration of the power of CSS - Absolutely amazing! Essential Fonts – 300 Free TrueType Fonts You Should Have HTML, etc. HTML – From the World Wide Web Consortium HTML Help – by the Web Design Group Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change – Reasons why you should choose stable URL’s for your pages The Web Developer’s Virtual Library – A good resource for web masters “The Complete HTML Tutorial” – Good online reference for experienced and novice HTML authors Web Reference – Excellent reference to HTML, JavaScript, CGI, etc. Any Browser Campaign – Tips for writing cross platform/browser HTML code HTML Editors / Authoring Systems Nvu – Web Authoring System for Linux, Mac and Windows; open-source rival to FrontPage and Dreamweaver? iWeb – Create websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies — the Mac way Dreamweaver – Commercial RSS/Atom RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters All About RSS What is RSS? – O’Reilly XML.com article Feed Burner – A value-added service What is Atom? – Betamax and VHS all over again DOCTYPE Use the Right Doctype – Overcoming browser bugs by coding to W3C standards Doctype switching and standards compliance: An overview – Some browsers have two rendering modes: Quirk mode and Standard mode DOCTYPE Explained Character Encoding Character Sets – Macintosh & Windows character sets Unicode browser display – Explanations about character entities ICANN Accredited Registrars (Domain name registration) Omnis – ($8/year) DNS included Stargate – ($12/year) DNS included Network Solutions – ($35/year) DNS included Blue Razor – ($8/year) DNS included Dynadot – ($8/year) Limited DNS included DomainSite – ($7-10/year) DNS available RegisterFly – ($10/year) DNS & eMail included GoDaddy – ($9/year) DNS included Registration Technologies, Inc. – ($15/year) DNS included OnlineNIC – ($7-8/year) must buy in bulk; DNS included NameSecure – ($10/year) DNS add $7.50/year DirectNic – ($15/year) DNS add $5/year Cheap Domain Registration – ($5-10/year) Web.com – ($7/year) AIT Domains – ($8/year) FullDNS – ($9/year) GKG – ($8.50/year) Other registrars by country – (InterNIC) ICANN accredited registrars – (ICANN) VeriSign – Global Registry Services WHOIS Search Dynamic DNS No-IP.com – Inexpensive Static DNS for your Dynamic IP server The Public DNS – From the Granite Canyon Group (Free service) DynDNS – Dynamic DNS: Alias Your Dynamic IP to a Static Domain Name Hosting Web Hosting Talk – Forum for discussion of the good, the bad, and the ugly Web Hosting Comparison Chart – Various IHP’s Web Hosting by Category – Various IHP’s MacWebserver – Mac server hosting Mac mini Colocation Solid Space – Mac mini colo @ $25/mo (100GB) – (Winston-Salem, NC) Stephouse – Mac mini colo @ $29/mo (50GB) – (Portland, OR) XServHosting – Mac mini colo @ $30/mo (40GB); Xserve and other options (Irvine, CA) Aim High! – Mac mini colo @ $30/mo (20GB) – (Golden, CO) Mac mini co-location – Mac mini colo $35/mo (50GB) – (Las Vegas, Nevada) Server Logistics – Mac mini colo @ $50/mo (50GB) – (Los Angeles, CA) Arogo – Mac mini rentals @ $75/mo (600GB) - (Las Vegas, Nevada) NorthernColo – Mac mini colo @ £30/mo (100GB) – (Manchester, UK) Fork Networking – 1U @ $59/mo (1 Mbps) – (Portland, OR) Colocation – Various colocation providers Mac Serving DIY Mac Server – Mac server on the cheap Mac OS X Server – The professional solution from Apple Mac Servers – Professional Hardware from Apple Developer – Mac OS X Server support – Apple site Pure-Mac – Links to Mac serving resources and tools CarraFix – Server port (e.g. Apache, ftp) bandwidth throttling/traffic shaping Broadband Direcway – Satellite DSL Net – DSL and T1 EarthLink – DSL, Cable, Satellite DSL dot com – DSL, Satellite Network Security Netgear Firewall/Router – One of the best, cost effective firewall/routers for small networks ICSA Labs – Info about network security issues Sygate Security Scan – probe your network for security vulnerabilities Gibson Research – mostly for Windoze users; ShieldsUP! section offers network probe see also: Things MacOS X for Data & Network Security

PHP PHP Documentation – FAQ’s, on–line and downloadable manuals, etc. PHP Manual – On–line PHP manual Using Register Globals – PHP Manual Predefined variables – PHP Manual Variables from outside PHP – PHP Manual PHP/MySQL Tutorial PHP Wizard – tools for polls, form mailing, ads, mySQL administration, etc. Developer Shed – PHP section PHP Security Consortium – Experts promoting secure PHP programming practices ProjectBuilder for PHP – Use Apple’s ProjectBuilder for PHP development Planet-PHP – PHP news see below for MacOS X specific PHP info PostgreSQL/MySQL PostgreSQL on MacOS X – Instruction from Apple PostgreSQL Documentation Practical PostgreSQL – The complete book on-line phpPgAdmin – Create and manage PostgreSQL databases via a browser phpMyAdmin – Create and manage mySQL databases via a browser PostgreSQL notes – Cheat-sheet SQL-DBMS – PostgreSQL/MySQL terminal admin command cheat-sheet SQL Relay - Getting Started With PostgreSQL – Install and use primer MySQL Tutorial Introduction – from the MySQL folks MySQL Camp Wiki – MySQL boot camps Administering PostgreSQL – Basic notes on administering PostgreSQL see below for MacOS X specific PostgreSQL & MySQL info Other Web Development Links Pages Developer Shed – Sections on Apache, JavaScript, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Security, Style-Sheets and more (Sherlock plug-in) O’Reilly Network Articles – Articles and excerpts from O’Reilly books (Sherlock plug-in) WebmasterWorld Forums Index – a forum for webmastering topics JavaScript WYSIWYG Editors TinyMCE (Sourceforge) – Open Source (LGPL) for Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari (sort of) Kupu – Open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and IE RTE – Cross-browser rich-text editor based on the designMode(); IE 5+, and Mozilla 1.3+ using the Mozilla Rich Text Editing API Xinha – The “Warrior Princess” open source fork of HTMLarea; better, stronger, sexier Xinha Demo – Try it out first Mozile – Mozilla Inline Editor, an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor FCKeditor – Editor demo; fast for some, slow for others, YMMV DMOZ’s List – If it exists, it’s probably here The List – A list of Open Source and Commercial WYSIWYG Editors CMS: Content Management Systems Drupal – An extremely flexible Open Source CMS based on Apache, PHP and MySQL or PostgreSQL; a veritable Swiss army knife for building simple to very complex web sites CivicSpace – An easier to install, enhanced Drupal distribution (derived from Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign) geared especially for non-profits/volunteer organizations OSCOM Product Matrix – International association connecting users and developers of Open Source Content Management solutions CMS Matrix – Compare features of up to ten CMS’s at once Midgard – An Open Source CMS based on Apache, PHP and MySQL Plone – Based on Zope (a Python toolkit); suitable for large enterprise systems e107 – Based on PHP and MySQL Mambo – Based on Apache, PHP and MySQL OpenPHPNuke – Open Source Web Content Management System (WCMS) - Requires unsafe PHP register_globals = on ! PHP–Nuke – Based on PHP and MySQL or PostgreSQL Xoops – Based on PHP and MySQL Silva – Based on Zope PostNuke – Based on PHP and MySQL myPHPNuke – Based on PHP and MySQL Evolution – Based on PHP and MySQL or any adodb supported SQL Wikipedia definition of CMS List of Content Management Systems – From Wikipedia Weblog (aka blog) WordPress – Open Source, easy setup, based on Apache, PHP and MySQ b2evolution – Open Source, feature rich, PHP/MySQL based Greymatter – Perl 5 / CGI personal publishing system (Open Source) MovableType – Perl 5 web-based personal publishing system; free under limited conditions dmoz – The open directory project’s list of blog software Wikipedia definition of Weblog/blog Blogger – A hosted blog / publishing and management system see also: Drupal or CivicSpace under CMS Internet Forums (aka BBS) phpBB – Free PHP/MySQL based BBS system (Open Source) phpBB installation on linux – Using PostgreSQL Phorum – Free PHP/MySQL based BBS system (Open Source) tribbyBoard – Free PHP/MySQL based threaded BBS system Invision Board (IBForums) – From the makers of Ikonboard aGNeS – WWW discussion board CGI package for download, or they will host the BBS for you. Free for non–profit or private use. Ceilith – A Threaded bulletin boards with file attachment and eMail for BeOS, Mac, OS/2, UNIX and Windows web servers Discus – A free WWW discussion board software package Wikipedia definition of Internet forum see also: Drupal or CivicSpace under CMS Wiki Wiki Engines – A Wiki of WikiEngines MediaWiki – GPL Wiki software used by Wikipedia and many other wikis Wikipedia definition of Wiki About Wikis – The home of the FirstOne PBwiki – A hosted solution; appears to be free see also: Drupal or CivicSpace under CMS Audio/Video QuickTime Broadcaster – Apple’s live encoding software for streaming audio and video over the Internet Darwin Streaming Server – Open source version of Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server technology HTML Converters (To/From) man2html – An on–the–fly UNIX manpage–to–HTML converter Man-cgi – Browse UNIX man pages via WWW gnu2html – GNU manual page to HTML converter HTML converters – JumpPage of various HTML converters HTML Converters – Another JumpPage of various HTML converters Calendars ExtCalendar – No longer maintained by its creator; however development continues as ExtCalendar 2 (below) ExtCalendar 2 – Looks to be the PhpBB of Calendars, but not quite a finished product as of this writing; no home page to link to yet, only this discussion BB (has working demo) Using PHPiCalendar to view iCal calendars on-line PHPiCalendar Home – PHP-based iCal file viewer/parser to display iCals in a Web browser So you want to run an iCal server? – .Mac not required phpCommunityCalendar project – Free PHP/MySQL based web community calendar system (Open Source) Sunbird – Cross platform Calendar application based on the iCal standard see also: Drupal or CivicSpace under CMS CRM SugarCRM – PHP/MySQL/Open source customer relationship management system CiviCRM – Designed specifically for non-profits; works with Drupal and CivicSpace Perl MacPerl – Perl for classic Macintosh “MacPerl: Power and Ease” – HTML version www.perl.com – Tools, references, tutorials, sources, etc. ––> Perl CGI’s are in the CGI’s section CGI’s WWW Security FAQ: CGI Scripts – A “must read” for everyone using or writing CGI’s Free code – Primarily CGI and InterNet related code sources The CGI Resource Index – CGI related resources by category Faq-O-Matic – Create interactive/living FAQ’s Mini Vend – A complete shopping cart solution WebCalendar – PHP/DB combo to maintain a calendar for one or more persons Matt’s Script Archive – Free Perl cgi scripts Votations – Free hosted polling for webmasters Search Engines/Crawlers ht://Dig – Open source InterNet search engine software Search Tools - Information, Guides and News – For Web Sites and Intranets DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Get listed (all at once) on search engines such as AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. Google Sitemap Automator – Shareware Favicon FavIcon from Pics – Upload a graphic, download a favicon Clip Art Barry’s Clipart Server – Royalty free clip art Keeping Your Clock On Time ntpd – Network Time Protocol Daemon OpenNTPD – A free, easy to use ntpd. Can sync local clock or act as an ntp server. Quick Start – For ntp Network Time Protocol Distribution – Documentation Computer Time Services – US Naval Observatory US Naval Observatory Network Time Servers Network Time Protocol (NTP) Public Services Project Data Security, ProcMail, Mail Filtering, SPAM Countermeasures see: Things eMail

Apache, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL on MacOS X

Installing Apache, MySQL & PHP on MacOS X MAMP – Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP; Dashboard widget to control major components WebServerXKit – Install all the last versions of Apache, PHP, LibGD, and MySQL MySQL (on MacOS X) – Tips and instructions for installing MySQL under MacOS X PHP (on MacOS X) – Tips and instructions for activating/installing PHP under MacOS X PHP on MacOS X PHP 4.3 and Mac OS X – How to install; O’Reilly ONLamp article Mac OS X: PHP with Apple's Developer Tools – Using Project Builder to edit PHP files SourceForge.net: Project Info - PHPpbx – Project Builder addon to give a complete environment for developing, debugging and deploying PHP PEAR – PHP Extension and Application Repository MacGuru HQ: MySQL, PHP and MySQL Tools for MacOS X – Fairly complete and up–to–date PHP on Mac OS X – Apple page discussing PHP on MacOS X PHP Mac – Various articles, including how to install/enable PHP and MySQL under MacOS X

MySQL on MacOS X MySQL Downloads – Get the latest MySQL packages MySQL GUI Tools – GUI front-end tools for MySQL MySQL Home Page – News, documentation, etc. CocoaMySQL – MacOS X front-end for MySQL; not maintained CocoaMySQL-SBG – A fork which works with MySQL 5 MySQL PrefPane – A MySQL preference pane; not needed with MySQL 5 MySQL Forge – MySQL related contributed projects MySQL Objective-C API for Cocoa – Open Source SQL4X Manager – Manage MySQL or any other JDBC compliant database (Commercial) Installing MySQL – Obsolete; MacOS X packages now available on MySQL site MySQL on MacOS X – Apple page discussing MySQL; overview, installation and security PostgreSQL on MacOS X PostgreSQL – Project home page PostgreSQL on MacOS X – Apple page discussing PostgreSQL; overview, installation and security PostgreSQL (on MacOS X) – Tips and instructions for installing PostgreSQL under MacOS X

Other pages in the “Things” series are:
Things Macintosh (Users) – info of general interest to all Macintosh users Things MacOS X – for MacOS X GUI related, data security and encryption, etc. Things UNIX – for MacOS X CLI related, UNIX tools, Terminal.app, general UNIX, etc. Things eMail – MacOS X eMail clients, server info, and SPAM countermeasures Things Macintosh (Developer’s Corner) – resources for Macintosh software developers
This page was last updated on 10-May-2008