Macports Newbie - XServe use

[Alex Kac]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:07 PM, grimmwerks wrote:

> Alex - please let me know how you find all the macports  
> installation on the xserve goes for you; I don't have the  
> experience you do, but I've installed the same setups (+ruby) on  
> non-server machines with no problem. However, recently trying to  
> get all of this on the xserve has proven itself to be problematic  
> for me recently.
>
> I don't know if it's a permissions problem, or something I've done  
> in my own misunderstanding, but I don't have a solid setup right  
> now. The placement of the mysql.sock being a problem at first, the  
> permissions and ability to write to databases being another. As of  
> right now, mysql is a bit farked in that I DO have databases  
> created and users that can write to these dbs, but the minute that  
> I try to run rails to set up an initial database (I'm trying to  
> setup retrospectiva as a bugtracker) -- it all blows up.  I've even  
> tried to mySQL gui tools to add to the db, and they crash too.
>
> Apache is running (I get the 'It works!' page), but can't quite get  
> the mod svn working as yet.
>
> So, if you do get this all up and running smoothly, I'd really  
> appreciate it if you can hand down the steps to get this going on  
> an Xserve.

Well I got the XServe today. I'm now grabbing XCode. A few questions.  
Are you using Open Directory or Netinfo (Standalone or Open Directory  
Master when you setup the serve)? What kind of errors are you  
getting? Anything in system.log? I'm mainly asking about MySQL and  
Apache here.



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