I just finished doing an install of RC1 on OS X Server 10.4. It was hard fought, but not Alfresco's fault.
I tried both the JBoss and Tomcat versions but both were barfing with a "Connection Refused" from MySQL. The problem turned out to be that it was being run with the –skip-networking command line switch. Getting rid of it requires running "/Applications/Servers/MySQL Manager" and checking the "Allow network connections" box.
Also, a note about setting $JAVA_HOME. At first I didn't know what to set it to, and in the process of hunting for that I found this page
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/01-JavaOverview/JavaOverv...
which says:
"Some applications look for Java’s home directory (JAVA_HOME) on the users system, especially during installation. If you need to explicitly set this, in a shell script or an installer, set it to /Library/Java/Home/. Setting it to the target of that symbolic link can result in a broken application for your customers."
Changing that symbolic link doesn't sit right with me either, particularly, but at least they aren't advising against that.
I tried using the "Java Preferences" app to tell the system to always use Java 5.0 before I changed the symbolic link, but it did not seem to work.
At this point I haven't actually tried to do anything with Alfresco; I declared victory when I was able to get to the login page from both versions (one at a time, of course). I'm still getting an error about Imagemagick being missing, and CIFS is not working as others have noted, but I'll save those for tomorrow. I wanted to make these notes before I forget what all happened here tonight.
Oh, one more thing - if anyone else is like me and needs to install on a remote server, a combination of OSXVNC on the server and the "Chicken of the VNC" (yes, that's what it's called - logo is a tuna can with a chicken coming out of it) client locally works fine, albeit a bit slow, to run the GUI across the network. I had some trouble with this also at first; I kept getting an "incompatible versions" error from the client. It turned out that despite directions to the contrary, the server defaulted to port 5901 while the client defaulted to 5900. At least it was easy to fix.
Yes, it has been one of those nights.
I tried both the JBoss and Tomcat versions but both were barfing with a "Connection Refused" from MySQL. The problem turned out to be that it was being run with the –skip-networking command line switch. Getting rid of it requires running "/Applications/Servers/MySQL Manager" and checking the "Allow network connections" box.
Also, a note about setting $JAVA_HOME. At first I didn't know what to set it to, and in the process of hunting for that I found this page
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/01-JavaOverview/JavaOverv...
which says:
"Some applications look for Java’s home directory (JAVA_HOME) on the users system, especially during installation. If you need to explicitly set this, in a shell script or an installer, set it to /Library/Java/Home/. Setting it to the target of that symbolic link can result in a broken application for your customers."
Changing that symbolic link doesn't sit right with me either, particularly, but at least they aren't advising against that.
I tried using the "Java Preferences" app to tell the system to always use Java 5.0 before I changed the symbolic link, but it did not seem to work.At this point I haven't actually tried to do anything with Alfresco; I declared victory when I was able to get to the login page from both versions (one at a time, of course). I'm still getting an error about Imagemagick being missing, and CIFS is not working as others have noted, but I'll save those for tomorrow. I wanted to make these notes before I forget what all happened here tonight.
Oh, one more thing - if anyone else is like me and needs to install on a remote server, a combination of OSXVNC on the server and the "Chicken of the VNC" (yes, that's what it's called - logo is a tuna can with a chicken coming out of it) client locally works fine, albeit a bit slow, to run the GUI across the network. I had some trouble with this also at first; I kept getting an "incompatible versions" error from the client. It turned out that despite directions to the contrary, the server defaulted to port 5901 while the client defaulted to 5900. At least it was easy to fix.
Yes, it has been one of those nights.
I'd love to see them. I was about to try setting up Alfresco, but then read through the posts and found that it is a non-trivial task on Mac today. If someone has time/inclination, please share some brief instructions. Otherwise, I'm going to make paulhh do it for me when I'm in the UK next week. javascript:emoticon('
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