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Category Archives: Apple & Mac OS X

Sigh…

01-Dec-05

There seems to be a [gap][1] in [Gap’s][2] thinking.
All the worse considering the boards of Apple and Gap share several directors. Even more so considering the design philosophies both companies share. Gap customers love iPods, you know.
Really… When are we going to start demanding that web agencies stop making moves that are _so last century_?
At […]

Lighttpd 1.4.3 update

02-Sep-05

I’ve been working on the Darwinports Portfile for Lighttpd 1.4.3, but for some reason it won’t compile with SSL on my machine. Until I can get a working compile, you won’t see a 1.4.x release of Lighttpd through Darwinports.
(I do have 1.4.0 submitted, but need to change the file to use local patches instead of […]

Lighttpd 1.4.0!

20-Aug-05

I’ve submitted the Lighttpd 1.4.0 port to DarwinPorts for committing. Hopefully that will happen within the next few days. I intend to work on adding some suggested elements (startup item and automatically installed configuration file) as well as providing variants for CML and LDAP within the next few weeks, but I wanted to get an […]

Installing Lighttpd on Mac OS X Tiger with DarwinPorts

17-Jun-05

First of all, this tutorial assumes you’ve got DarwinPorts 1.0 installed. If you don’t, go to the [DarwinPorts web site][1] and download and install it.
[1]: http://darwinports.opendarwin.org
[Lighttpd][2] is a “secure, fast, compliant and flexible” web server currently popular with Ruby on Rails programmers:
>lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been […]

Lighttpd and DarwinPorts, k-i-s-s-i-n-g

15-Jun-05

My [lighttpd Portfile][1] has been committed to the [DarwinPorts][2] repository. Installing lighttpd on Mac OS X is now as simple as typing `sudo port install lighttpd`!
[1]: http://blog.unquiet.net/archives/2005/05/15/lighttpd-on-darwinports-too/
[2]: http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
I’ve also submitted an update to rb-fcgi but haven’t heard back on that yet. rb-fcgi is now updated to version 0.8.6 and I’m going to be a co-maintainer! […]