I still use one of our ancient Macintoshs (Blue/White G3) as a web server (msbl.helsinki.fi). I had set up some access restrictions for some of the pages containing confidential data. And of course I forgot how I did it. Now I needed to figure out as I wanted to add some new stuff. For the general server, the accession is restricted based on individual .htaccess files in directories.
Today I installed the Staden Package on Tanja's Macintosh G4 computer (MacOS 10.3). I recommend using the ebiotools package made by Anders Nister. It includes other useful software such as EMBOSS, Blast, etc.). Installation instructions are available in the embnet news issues 9/1, 9/2, 9/3 and 10/1 or gathered into one pdf file from here.
I have installed Staden on MacOS X and have been playing around with it. I used the ebiotools package created by Anders Nisters described in issue 10/1 of the embnet.news for the installation. It works, although not according to the Mac philosophy: