Questions tagged [mac-osx]

Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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How to Access Apache Virtual Host from Cell Phone?

I'm developing a mobile web application using Django. Currently I can start the Django development server like this: python ./manage.py runserver :8000 When I do that, I'll get a popup window on my Mac that says, Do you want the…
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Sharing files over network - accessing files on a Mac from a Win7 machine

This is one of those questions that has a million web sites explaining how simple it is, but for some reason I'm living in some edge case that is being difficult. First the details: Mac is running OSX 10.7.5, File Sharing is enabled, both AFP and…
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On MacOS X, can I configure Wifi from Puppet or the command line?

I would like to create entries for the company's Wifi in every Mac via Puppet. Is this possible? (or if it is possible from the command line, I can figure out how to do it in Puppet)
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Cacti - Check plist file

I followed this guide to get Cacti up and running. http://10100.org/blog/how-to-install-cacti-on-osx-server-109 Everything is good up until I had to create cacti.plist to configure the poller. In terminal, when i run launchctl it can't find the…
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Installing and maintaining Apache, MySQL, PHP on OSX

I have recently gotten into quite a predicament with my MacBook: I'm not quite sure how many or what versions of the AMP stack I currently have installed. In addition to the default stack that comes installed in OS X 10.5, I've got copies floating…
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Creating multiple Virtual Hosts in Apache the right way (macosx)

I got a strange problem trying to define multiple virtual hosts in Apache. This is my code for httpd.conf file: ServerName site1.local DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/site1/public
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nginx proxy_pass directive acting up on OSX?

I have the following lines in my nginx.conf on my Mac: location /addPat { resolver 8.8.8.8; proxy_pass http://some_url:8080$request_uri; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade…
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Configure Bonjour for a custom vhost on Apache on OS X 10.9

How to broadcast all my vhost ? This has been answered for Snow Leopard, sadly the configurations files pointed in this thread are not there anymore in Maverick.
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PureFTPd Server on OS X - FTP clients can login but unable to view or write to their folders

Need a real FTP guru for this one I think. If you know something about pureftp please read through the below logs and see if something jumps out at you. People can log in but not post files or make directories or view their previously put…
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OSX - How can I copy a local users settings/preferences to a new mobile user

We are working on migrating all our local users to mobile accounts that are bound to LDAP. I am working on a script that prompts a user to enter their email and it creates a new mobile user and then moves all their files and also their…
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IPsec Xauth RSA - Debian 7 and Android 4.4 VPN (Always-ON) and Mac OS X 10.9.2 VPN (On Demand)

I successfully installed IPSec Xauth RSA using this instruction: http://jsharkey.org/blog/2012/09/22/deploying-a-pure-ipsec-pki-vpn-server-for-android-devices/ In brief: apt-get install ipsec-tools racoon chmod 700 /etc/racoon/certs cd…
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Launchd job runs but then quits immediately

I wish to load and run a Lisp program in CCL in the background automatically when my Mac (OS 10.9) boots. I have a launchd plist that I've saved to /Library/LaunchDaemons,
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OSX Mavericks and Windows 7 missing files

I have in a local Mac mini server running Mavericks which is acting as a file server for two windows 7 clients The files on the server are mainly images and are shared via SMB. Whenever I try to view certain folders of through a client image editor…
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Restore data only from Time Machine

I'll have following scenario: 1, I use Time Machine to backup my data from my Mac, I excluded Applications folder and some others, so I really backup data only 2, I'll buy new Snow Leopard 3, I want totally clean install, so when installing Snow…
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Why is my OSX client having so much trouble connecting to our SMB server?

I'm asking this here because I think I'm more likely to find SMB/kerberos experts here than in Ask Different, which seems to be mostly related to OSX client issues. When I first connect to our SMB share, the Finder seems to lock up for a good 30…