[ome-users] os x server

[Arman Garakani]

Thanks for your note. Please see comments below:

On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Ilya Goldberg wrote:

> 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.

It continues to check for sharing panel. OS X Server does not have  
personal web sharing as in OS X client. And there is no  
com.apple.preferences.sharing.

>
> 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

Your test is fine. If instead of assuming http://localhost, you used  
the output of /bin/hostname then I think you will be fine on os x  
server. hostname returns http://localhost or machineName.local on OS  
X client and on OS X Server the currently serving website. Your curl  
test logic would remain the same.
>
> 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.

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.

>
> 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.

I totally agree with the positive experience on os x client. It works  
great. Let me know if you want me to test the os x server additions  
when you add them.

>
> 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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