Broken at first...

Echoing others, all of the websites I hosted on my OS X Server became completely unreachable. I couldn’t even reach them from the machine that was running Server, although the Website service indicated that everything was running well. Web serving wasn’t broken, until this version “fixed” it.

I tried restarting the service, and then re-booting my Mac, several times. I thought that something must have started or stopped out of sequence since I didn’t see any notable errors in the logs. None of this worked.

As I started writing this review, I tried one last ditch effort. I went back and re-installed Server 5.0.3 from the App Store. I was actually surprised that it gave me the “Install” option. I can now get to all of my websites again, and they now appear to be reachable from outside my LAN.

I was going to give this one star, because of my last two days of frustration in trying to will my websites to work by toggling every switch and trying every incantation I could of stopping and starting tangentially related services on my server and my router. The upgrade to two stars is because it is now working for me and only because I haven’t been able to tell if any other surprises are still in store.

I am now convinced that my original install was incomplete or corrupted, but I never got an error message stating as much. The only anomaly on the upgrade that I can recall, is that the installer asked me to quit the Server app for the upgrade. It is quite possible that something did not finish quitting before the install proceeded. If you plan on taking the plunge, make sure to quit the Server app, and then wait a minute or two before starting the upgrade.

Levansic about macOS Server