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Poster:
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dj1yfk
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Date:
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July 09, 2004 06:13:21am
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freecache
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Re: Help for Mac Os X user
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> server on it and subsequently download free
> cache afterwards. I am all new to this perl,
> cgi-bin language (sorry to all you techies
> out there! I am a half-nerd)
You probably did not understand what freecache is. You cannot download it, or install freecache it on your computer.
Freecache is a service which caches files for you. For example if you have a website and offer a large file, lets say a video, which would eat up a lot of bandwidth when many people download it, you can let freecache do the job by putting "http://freecache.org/" in front of the addess of the video, say if it was "http://abc.com/video.mpg" you simply change the link destination to "http://freecache.org/http://abc.com/video.mpg". This way any downloads of the file will be served by the freecache.org server, NOT by your own server.
Of course you do not need to have your own web-server running.
Furthermore you do not need to deal with perl or CGI to use freecache. Please read the description once again; I fear you have misunderstood the concept of freecache.
> Does anyone has a dummy guide anywhere
> for Mac users? I am currently downloading
> a Mac Os X server admin tools from the
> website and am assuming I can run a server
> on it! but what next??
Think about this first: Do you really need an own server? Serving a website from your own server does not give you a lot of advantages over some commercial services, in fact there are rather a lot of disadvantages because you probably do not have a high bandwidth at your location, cannot make sure a high uptime etc.. Anyway, there are quite a few descriptions of how to install apache under Mac OSX on the web, just try googe ("Mac OS X apache install").
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