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143Chapter 9 Customizing Services
To publish a custom website:
1 In the Web pane of Server Preferences, click Custom Sites.
2 To add a new website, click the Add (+) button, and then enter the website’s fully
qualied DNS name and optionally choose the folder where the website les are stored
on the server.
Server Preferences creates a website for the DNS name you enter if it isn’t already in
use and your DNS service can resolve it to your server’s IP address.
If you enter a DNS name that’s already being used for standard web services—wikis, Â
web calendar, blogs, or webmail—you can change the DNS name or specify a
nonstandard access port number. The standard access port for websites is 80.
Before specifying a dierent port, make sure it doesn’t conict with another service
provided by your server. For a list of ports Mac OS X Server may use, open Server
Admin (in /Applications/Server/) and use the Help menu to search for “TCP and UDP
port reference.”
If the status indicator to the right of the DNS name is red, Server Preferences can’t Â
resolve the DNS name to your server’s IP address. To x this, you can change the DNS
name or click Create anyway and manually set the IP address.
If you don’t choose a folder for the website les, Server Preferences creates one for you
in the default location, /Library/WebServer/Sites/domainname (where domainname is
the DNS name you entered.)
3 Copy the les you want available on the website to the website folder, removing
placeholder les you don’t need.
Make sure your website’s homepage is named index.html or index.php.