[ome-users] os x server

[Ilya Goldberg]

Hello Arman
I'm not sure I understand the error.  Did the installer die because  
it couldn't launch the Sharing Pane in the System Preferences?
This wasn't a caught exception, so if there is no "System  
Preferences" application, or if has no sharing panel  
(com.apple.preferences.sharing), then it looks like it would just  
quit.  This part has been fixed, and will be updated shortly.

The installer would only attempt to do this if it could not detect  
that Apache was running.  The test is to check the response to the  
following command:
/usr/bin/curl -s http://localhost/foo

If there is no server at localhost, then the result is nothing.  If a  
server is running, then there will be an error (if there is no foo  
page), or whatever foo leads to.  If the result of this command is  
nothing, then it is assumed there is no server running on localhost.   
The installer then goes on to open "System Preferences" and selects  
the "Sharing" panel.

We don't use OS X server, and I have not had feedback from other  
users of OS X server.  We've had a lot of positive feedback from  
people who have installed this on OS X client.

Its possible that you have set your Apache server to respond with  
nothing on 404 errors, and the test above will have failed even if  
your server is running.  A slightly better test may be to drop a file  
in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ and see if can be read using an HTTP  
client program (like curl).  This would only be worth-while if we're  
trying to accommodate a stock, "out of the box" OS X server though.
Can you tell me if this server has been configured in any way by  
anyone, or is this how it comes from Apple?

Please try the curl command above using the terminal application and  
tell me what the result is.  If the result is indeed nothing, can you  
go to http://localhost/ in your browser (a browser running on the OS  
X server in question) and tell me what it reports?

Thanks,
Ilya


On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Arman Garakani wrote:

> OS X Install uses Personal Wed Sharing feature I assume for checking
> if Apache is running. On OS X Server, this feature is not available.
> Apache server is running. Has anyone tried to install OME 2.6 on os x
> server (10.4.8) ? Any comments would be appreciated ?
>
> -A
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