Installing Personal Web Sharing on OSXTo install the built in Personal Web Sharing component of MacOSX, click on 'System Preferences'.
And click on 'Sharing' within the 'Internet and Network' section. The following dialog will then display showing a selection of components to enable.
Click on 'Personal Web Sharing' to enable it, a tick will then show as in the screenshot. The service will then enable and start automatically. You now have two locations for your web server files. For the files found at the root of the 'localhost' domain, http://localhost/ , can be found here: Macintosh HD/Library/WebServer/Documents/ For files within your own user area, ie http://localhost/~your_user_name/, can be found here:Macintosh HD/Users/your_user_name/Sites/ Or just:your_user_name/Sites/ |
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