The Web site for the Mac OS 8 Web Server Cookbook was served up on Dave's own work Mac from 1998-2002. In February 2002, I moved it to athe WeHostMacs.com hosting service and the www.macbooks.net domain. I had to do this because my desktop PowerMac G4 was upgraded to a Titanium PowerBook G4.

For posterity, here are the details of the hardware and software configuration the last time I updated the page.

Web Server Statistics I switched to Summary.Net to keep running tabs on my site logs.

Previously I was generating reports almost monthly with the promotional (free) version of Site Stat Pro from Kitchen Sink Software. See Chapter 7 for details. August 1 - August 31, 1999 July 1 - July 31, 1999 June 1 - July 1, 1999 May 10 - June 1, 1999 April 1 - May 10, 1999 March 1 - March 31, 1999 January 4 - February 28, 1999 November 5, 1998 - January 4, 1999 October 7 - November 5, 1998 January - October 7, 1998

Hardware

The book is now serving from a 400-MHz PowerMac G3 tower. Thanks to SDSC's desktop systems group for the upgrade from the PowerMac G3/266, which in turn replaced the Power Macintosh 9600/200 as in the book. It has a 6-GB drive and 256 MB of RAM. It is connected to SDSC's local-area Ethernet, which is connected to the Internet through SDSC's partial T3 connection.

Mac OS 9.0.4: My Mac is now running Mac OS 9.0.4. I had to upgrade to get the latest USB drivers so I could set up my Web cam.

Keep in mind that this is not a dedicated Web server. In addition to the applications below, I also perform my day-to-day work on this Mac. Most days, I keep between 12 and 14 applications open, including Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Word 98, Adobe GoLive, Eudora Pro 5.0, F-Secure ssh, and less often Quark XPress 4.0 (with the Beyond Press XTension), and a graphics editing program such as PhotoShop 3.0 or Macromedia Fireworks.

Web Cam: I got a USB-connected Kensington VideoCAM, which I've connected to my Web server. I'm experimenting with Oculus and CoolCam as the Web cam software.

Server Software

Web Server -- WebServer 4D. I'm running WebServer 4D thanks to the fine folks at MDG Computer Services. On the plus side, it's an all-in-one Web server, search engine, and database server. On the downside, it's a little complicated and takes some effort to get it up and running with all the admittedly useful bells and whistles. The server's name is http://hart-mac.sdsc.edu/ (You are here.).

FTP Server -- NetPresenz 4.1. This is a shareware application from Stairways Software. I use pretty much the default settings for anonymous ftp and for authenticated file transfer. The ftp server is named ftp://hart-mac.sdsc.edu.

Mail Server -- Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.2. Freeware from Qualcomm's Eudora division. EIMS provides both POP3 (receiving) and SMTP (sending) mail service. I have phased out running EIMS on my Mac. There wasn't a need or demand.

List Server -- Currently not running anything, because I have no lists to serve. I have used AutoShare to run a demonstration list among a group of friends. If there is interest in any future discussion list, I will likely use Macjordomo, the list server POP client via an account created on SDSC's central mail server.

Database Server -- WebServer 4D. I phased out FileMaker Pro 4.0 and Lasso Lite 1.2.3 on my Mac because it required a substantial application and several databases to be open for very little activity. I was serving several prototype databases for my group at SDSC using Lasso Lite and the FMPro 4.0 Web Companion. Lasso Lite is no longer available in its original form from Blue World Communications.

Scripting Languages -- AppleScript, MacPerl 5.0 and UserLand Frontier 5.0. To demonstrate various examples, MacPerl 5.0 and UserLand Frontier 5.0 will launch themselves if they're not already running. I may phase these out just to make life simpler, using WebServer 4D built-in functions where possible. Check this site's CGI-Bin for scripting information.

Development Software

Site Management/Page Creation -- Adobe GoLive 5.0. I highly recommend this program, which I've been using since it was GoLive CyberStudio 2.0. In addition to being the best page design tool I've found, GoLive supports Dynamic HTML actions (making image rollovers a breeze) and Cascading Style Sheets (although the CSS editor is not as intuitive to use.) Beyond that the Site Management tools are excellent, with the ftp integration much improved. The two major gaps are in support for server-side includes (SSIs) and in automatic site map generation.

Image Creation/Editing -- Macromedia Fireworks. I am using Macromedia Fireworks for creating Web images for this site and others. I liked it better than Adobe ImageReady, but whatever your preference, one of these tools is a must-have for optimizing images for the Web.

Other -- Extensis Beyond Press 4.0. I occasionally must convert Quark XPress documents for Web publication. I use Beyond Press to extract text and images into pages. I do not use it to produce Web-ready pages, but to create pages that I can customize in CyberStudio.