[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

a dmg is a disk image – think of it as a flash drive of a sort for your computer. if you get an app in a dmg, you should mount the dmg and then take the resulting app and install it on your hard drive (just drag it to your applications folder) and then “eject” (virtually) the dmg – you won’t need it any longer after that…

make sense?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – there are much more secret places in unix that you could check, but you’d need some good experience with unix and your root account enabled – something along these lines:

https://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_startup.html

but i wouldn’t recommend messing around with that unless you are very comfortable with unix – but if you have both those places eliminated as a culprit then that might be the place – but also check safari or think about any other possible culprits – like another app might be trying to make a connection to a web page via safari or something?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can try your account in system prefs – there’s a login items section there as well…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

os x has not included os 9 for i think 2 releases now…you will have to find a computer that is running classic or use something like this:

https://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/sheepshaver

however for that, you will need a copy of classic…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

right-click (or ctrl-click if you have a 1-button mouse) on th icon in the dock and un-check “open at login”…that should do it..

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

view -> show address bar? or did you try that?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – you can in unix (and therefore os x) change the home directory of a user to whatever folder you want, but in this case, if you have a user for the pc login, you are safe if they are not an admin user – then you can use the symbolic link tool in unix to make a shortcut in the home dir that the pc can use:

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/view_thread.php?threadid=265203&archive=_2003|11|10&forumid=71

if you really want to lock them down and change their home dir to that specific folder, then you’d need to be somewhat unix-sys-ad friendly as i don’t think there is a gui tool on os x to do that – but if you want to know about that, i can poke around and see if there are steps, or again give this forum’s archives a search as i think we covered that at one point as well…but maybe not – can’t recall off of the top of my head…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i gotta run out the door right now, but a first step would be to check to see if you’ve searched the archives of this forum for this topic – we get it quite frequently, and i recall a specific question that i answered at one point that was pretty much exactly what you want to do here…

give it a shot if you haven’t already and let us know if you can’t find what you’re looking for!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – so let’s say you were setting up a virtual host on 8080 – you open up apache’s conf file and look for the “Listen” directive – it should already be set up to listen to port 80 (default web port) and maybe 443 (ssl) – then add yours:

Listen 80
Listen 8080

then add a virtual host:

<VirtualHost [YOUR_IP]:8080>
</VirtualHost>

and then you can populate that with any variety of options – doc root, custom logs, etc. etc…then restart apache and you should be good to go! if i’ve glossed over anything, there’s docs here:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/examples.html

i think it’s easier than trying to run a separate (and i don’t mean this negatively) “fake” dns system inside your network…you could always make a root page for the default server that had links to each virtual host you had to help keep track of them…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

is there a reason you need to have domains? you could use the box ip address and ports and then all the boxes on the network could see the sites automatically without having to modify name records..

like say your apple server is 10.11.12.1 – you could have virtual hosts running at 10.11.12.1:8000, 10.11.12.1:8001, etc. etc…

that’s pretty easy to set up in apache. as long as you don’t have a firewall around the server, that traffic (and any port-specific web requests) will automatically get to the box and then it’s just a matter of telling apache to listen on that port as well as the default 80 port…

thoughts?

sitruc