It's weird how Apple has root disabled by default. That threw me a little. In any case, I finally have apache, php, and mysql all running locally on my little iMac. 512 megs of additional RAM are on the way. I can't tell you how great this is. Being able to develop on my local machine - without FTPing every change to my server over a 56K dialup - is about the best thing I can think of.

Hopefully by the end of today I'll have this site replicated at home. And of course the ease of setting this up under OSX is making me think of strange distributed scenarios where every user has the full system replicated on his/her home computer, and everything is synched through a central server. That way traffic spikes (ha!) could be handled by a round robin configuration of all the users. I just wish that internet access was developing in such a way that casual serving was possible. Unfortunatley it seems like the big providers want you to consume but not serve. Still, there are always ways around.

One interesting thing I noticed is that even on my dial up (upstairs, not down in the office) my web server is accessible from the outside. Granted the IP address would change every time I got disconnected, so it's not very practicle, but I wouldn't have expected it to work at all. When I get something up here I'll post the IP address and you can try to hit my iMac from where you are. Because, you know, edge of the seat excitement is what we're all about.
- jim 1-03-2002 2:52 pm




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