I have installed Livecode server on Mac OS X server and have the got the revignitor chat tutorial running. There were a couple of bumps on the way I thought I should share in case someone else it trying to get livecode server running on Mac OS X server.
I first tried following the instructions in the release notes that accompany the 4.6.3 server and I felt like Johnny Cash building his cadillac, when I went to put in the motor all the holes were gone. I hadn't realized that the instructions in the release notes were for the regular version of Mac OS X and there would be differences for Mac OS X server. I managed to find a good explanation of how to install the prerelease revserver on Mac OS X server. http://blog.clarityforsuccess.com/2011/02/revserver-on-osx-server-snow-leopard.html I had to of course change the references to revserver and irev-script to livecode-server and livecode-script etc. One change to the above instructions was that I kept the ability to recongnize both irev and lc extensions by adding handlers for both in the httpd.conf file AddHandler livecode-script lc AddHandler livecode-script irev Perhaps future versions of the release notes should have a section specifically for Mac OS X Server based on the instructions there. Next I wanted to test the installation this by installing revigniter (http://revigniter.com) and try the chat tutorial. I got the chat tutorial files from the RevUp newsletter on the same topic: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/july/issue96/newsletter2.php It has a link to the completed tutorial files which I downloaded and placed in the folders indicated. Since the tutorial needed database access I installed mySQL on MaC OS X server and set up the chat database. Then I tried to load the chat page. At first it did not work. It came up with the following error. 'The model you are loading is a resource that is already being used: chatmodel' I found what was causing that error. At the end of the chat.irev file there is a line that calls the controller handler 'chat'. If I commented out the call to the 'chat' controller handler it worked. Elsewhere in the documentation it said you were supposed to call the controller handler with the same name as the controller file at the end of the script. Anyway not calling it made things work. The other error in the chat.irev was in the 'index' handler. In the 6th line put varPost("name", TRUE) into tPOSTname should be put rigvarPost("name", TRUE) into tPOSTname After changing these two lines I was running the chat application on the server on my local network. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Success-with-LiveCode-Server-Mac-OS-X-server-and-revigniter-tp3712576p3712576.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
