What is the Sites folder for?

[ss957916]

Home>Sites - what's it for? It's always empty.

 

[uaecasher]

this is used for saving sites if you want to use localhost i.e make your computer a server and people can see the website through your IP address

 

[Cave Man]

It's for your web sites; e.g., iWeb and local folder publishing.

 

[BlueRevolution]

If you enable internet sharing under  -> System Preferences -> Sharing, other people on your local network will be able to see stuff in that folder by navigating to http://yourcomputername.local/~yourname/ in their web browser, and you can do so at http://localhost/~yourname/. The stuff displayed at http://yourcomputername.local/ is located on your hard drive under /Library/WebServer/Documents.

You can also install PHP/MySQL/Ruby/whatever and use your computer as a local testing server if you swing that way.

 

[Peace]

Apache web server is great for large families that need to look at daily family related info. I have a main system that puts up daily info and everybody can check out the calendar..appointments menus etc..

The site folder is great.

 

[MKSinSA]

Apache web server is great for large families that need to look at daily family related info. I have a main system that puts up daily info and everybody can check out the calendar..appointments menus etc..

The site folder is great.

A great little intranet built right in, eh? This is a good feature to know about.

 

[chkdg8]

If I don't use this feature, is it okay to delete it?

 

[BlueRevolution]

I don't see why not. If you need it, you can always recreate the folder.

 

[chkdg8]

I don't see why not. If you need it, you can always recreate the folder.

Thank you for the quick response.

EDIT: spoke too soon.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yeah, OS X is whinier these days. I doubt anything would happen if you deleted it from the command line, aside from a few errors if you do start the web server. But I know people have accidentally deleted their ~/Desktop folder, and recovered simply by creating a new folder with the same name.