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The first of two built-in options for rotating Apache access logs and error logs on OS X Server is newsyslog. You can set it up with just a couple of lines dropped into a configuration file.
You could be forgiven for thinking that someone forgot to finish the log viewer built into Server.app. It doesn’t seem to show what you might expect, and then when it does, it’s in the same plain format you’d get from Console. If you’re so inclined, it’s not too hard to work around.
Especially if you’re migrating from a WHM/cPanel server, you’ll likely find that the default configurations for Apache logging and error logging on OS X leave a lot to be desired. Here’s how to clean things up a bit, and here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of two different options for rotating your logs — newsyslog and piping to the rotatelogs utility.
Whatever you might think of Internet Explorer, unless you want IE users to experience extra-slow browsing on OS X-hosted websites — and unless you’re happy with those users placing unnecessary extra load on OS X Server — there’s an important change that needs to be made to Apple’s default Apache configuration.
Possibly the single biggest boost to PHP performance comes from caching bytecode in RAM and reusing it, rather than recompiling it from scratch each time a particular piece of code runs. Installing APC is one of the easiest ways to make it happen.
OS X Server is perfectly capable of hosting multiple websites just fine in its defautl configuration. However, a few minutes spent tuning and tweaking can pay off handsomely, unlocking far more of the hardware’s high performance potential.
Installing the familiar web-based phpMyAdmin on OS X Server is quick and easy, and in some cases it offers a more straightforward way of managing your MySQL databases than a native Mac client.
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