I have tried Python already with some of my programs and I did not really have a problem (yet:-). Using PYTHONPATH to set my extra libraries worked well, and that is it. B.t.w., Jack Jansen, my colleague at CWI who is sitting in the next office to mine, is one of the maintainers of the Mac Python, so I am sure to get good help if needed:-)

I have not thought of the virtual host trick. When I do Web site development and testing locally I simply use localhost and I usually use relative URI-s in my files. That has worked well up until now…

I already realized the missing wget, for example, I did not think of compiling it for myself. Somebody advised me to use flink to get all kinds of missing tools, but that one does not have a Snow Leopard distribution yet and I am kind of lazy to start compiling it… I will take all this as it comes!

Merci encore:-)

Ivan

When you can’t find one of your favorite file or program. Open the Terminal (shell window), and type “locate …” for example locate httpd.conf

You can create alias in your bashrc for the open command if you wish too. That will make it shorter to type. As a text editor, I also recommend TextMate which is quite practical. There is a learning curve but productivity improves after a while.

if you are used to XChat, there is also Aqua XChat which is working perfectly for me for the last 8 years

Something you might hit soon. GNU tools are not installed on the machine because of the license. But you can download them from GNU web site and it will compile smoothly.

The preinstalled equivalent of wget is curl. Do man curl.

The date bash command doesn’t work like the gnu one.

I know you are a python developer and you might have surprises at the start. The logic of directories is not the same at all. Read carefully before.

You can create virtual domains for your apache so you can test your pages like on a site. Let say by chance, you would like

http://w3c.test.site/

In /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

[VirtualHost *:80]

DocumentRoot “/Users/ivan/Sites/w3.org”

ServerName w3c.test.site

[/VirtualHost]

and in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 w3c.test.site

then
sudo apachectl graceful

Hope it helps.

I thought of that, but it was not clear, and then the jungle effect prevailed:-) The fact is that I bought the machine last week, with Snow Leopard installed (and some updates ran at first startup), it was not clear that the two CD-s that came with the machine would/could be used for something like that, too. I am not sure what the ‘applications install DVD’ contains, ie, whether it contains anything else that is not already installed…

Thanks!

Ivan