<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I used the installer you pointed me to. After asking for Aminstrator password, it brings System Preferences up anb the dialog says "OME requires Web Sharing (Apache) to be active ..... In this case the server was running. With the Web Server stopped, I saw the same behavior and dialog. Perhaps I ma missing something. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wonder if you can:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>for OS X Server since serveradmin exists </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>reify:~ arman$ sudo serveradmin status web</DIV><DIV>Password:</DIV><DIV><B>web:state = "RUNNING"</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>for OS X client </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>sudo serveradmin status web</DIV><DIV>Password:</DIV><DIV><B>sudo: serveradmin: command not found</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I also wonder if on a freshly installed os x server. I am guessing that in that case the wizard checking curl -s <A href="http://local.host">http://local.host</A> does return the expected. If that is the case it is still better for the wizard to use hostname (on Bernd Jagla's email earlier).<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks a lot </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Arman</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Ilya Goldberg wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Arman Garakani wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think os x server may be a better choice for an organization for a lot of reasons. You can check if the os is client or server using a simple test of checking to see if serveradmin exists -- but there may be better ways.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Instead of trying to startup "Server Admin", I'm just catching the "System Preferences/Sharing" exception, and displaying a different alert text.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I put an interim version here:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://users.openmicroscopy.org.uk/~igg/OME-Installer.dmg">http://users.openmicroscopy.org.uk/~igg/OME-Installer.dmg</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Can you try it with and without having Apache running first?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ilya</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>