Well I filed a bug report Bug ID# 9064149 with Apple many months ago and just got this reply.

“We are closing this bug since our engineers are aware of the issue and will continue to track it.”

Ok not exactly what I wanted but at least they are now aware of the issue. Note that IOS does not require admin privileges to open ports below 1024 for UDP Packets.

Why do I want this change in OS X. Well this is a historic security measure when people used to stick to this lower range for their applications. In todays modern age this serves no purpose as I can just open and listen on a port above 1024 anyway. The restriction was relaxed in IOS so my Wake On Lan monitor can monitor any port, and judging by the downloads either a lot of people want this functionality or they are extremely disappointed when they realise this is a monitoring app and does not wake their machine up.

1. First edit your host file so you have a quick URL to use in your browser

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

2. Edit the Apache config file to add a virtual server

sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

or if we are on 10.9+ then allow by uncommenting

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

And on 10.10 Yosemite uncomment

LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so

save then open

sudo nano /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

and add

# Depicus Web Site

ServerAdmin anybody@example.com
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Depicus/"
DirectoryIndex index.php

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ServerName Depicus
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/Depicus-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/Depicus-access_log" common

3. Restart Apache and you are good to go.

sudo apachectl -k restart

Wowza this machine is amazing, just ran Aperture and imported 10Gb of MRAW files from a Canon 7D and it ran like a dream, fast – yes the processor all 4 of them maxed out but I was screen recording as well. More to follow when I have given it a thorough going over.

Well it seems that applications that go in to the app store for OS X cannot write log files to the log files directory. Appeal lost 🙁

Crazy…..

Well it seems that Wake on Lan for OS X 1.6 won’t be out for a few more days after being rejected for “2.30 Apps that do not comply with the Mac OS X File System documentation will be rejected”

Seems like writing to ‘~/Library/Logs/Depicus’ is not allowed. Crazy because that is where log files are written for applications. Well appeal is in so lets see what happens.

Just noticed that the iOS5 notification screen shows what tunes you are listening to on the lock screen. Cool.