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Webserver basics

Apache version 2.2, with several custom tweaks, is included with every copy of os X.

These tweaks can confuse the long time apache, first time os X user.

/Library/Webserver/Documents is the storage area for web documents, the web server document path.

This path is often referred to as htdocs, httpdocs, or something similar in linux/unix variants.

It is not necessary to be connected to the web to access the builtin webserver on the local machine.

Enter the url http://localhost/ into a web browser (Safari) on the the local machine to load a page with more details.

Use the OS X Finder application to browse to /Library/Webserver/Documents/ for an idea of how files in the file system get served by the Apache server.

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