Robert,

which JDBC driver set works the best?
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On Jan 26, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Robert Shubert wrote:

> Steve,
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> I have tested Witango 6 on OS X against MySQL with both JDBC and ODBC.
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> JDBC works fine and I would recommend it slightly above ODBC on OS X.
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> For ODBC, you need to download and install the MySQL ODBC 5.1 driver for OS X 
> 10.6 32-bit (not the 64-bit one since iODBC on OS X runs in 32-bit mode)
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> You may also need an ODBC administrative tool. The MySQL installer may 
> install one, I can’t be sure, because I already had 2 others. Apple has one, 
> but I couldn’t get that one to work properly. Ultimately, I used the OpenLink 
> ODBC Administrator to setup the DSN and Witango 6 was happy with that.
>
>
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> Incidentally I have tested Witango 6 against the current open link drivers 
> (for MS SQL) and that worked well.
>
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> By default Witango Server 6 is setup to access both JDBC and ODBC.
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>
> Robert
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> PS. I have not done any testing with PostgreSQL yet, and we don’t support 
> that DBMS in the Studio. I will get to this as soon as I can.
>
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> From: Steve Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: I Screwed Up
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>
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> Found the problem. As good as Apple's user interface for OS X Server is, 
> sometimes you see a slightly different picture when you open up terminal and 
> run ls -la. Once I remembered what the letters meant, I was able to figure 
> out what needed to be fixed.
>
>
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> Now it is on to setting up a data source on this box. My experience was 
> always with ODBC, but my sense is that JDBC is the way to go in today's 
> world. Planning on continuing to use MySQL, or possibly look at PostgreSQL. 
> For now I'll be porting over my existing system which runs under MySQL.
>
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> Is JDBC the way to go?
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>
> Steve Smith
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> On 2011-01-25, at 8:37 PM, Robert Shubert wrote:
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> Steve,
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> Simply put, the permissions on the folder where you site files reside doesn’t 
> have read permissions. It should have Everyone “Read only” on it (and 
> possibly folders leading up to it). Just Get Info on each and set them 
> accordingly.
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> Creating the share may have automatically set tighter permissions, or perhaps 
> changed the group permission that was originally allowing Apache to access 
> the files.
>
>
>
> Robert
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> From: Steve Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Witango-Talk: I Screwed Up
>
>
>
> With Robert's help, I was able to get Witango v6 up and running on my Mac 
> mini OS X Server...
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> for a few minutes. Then I started to tinker and tried a couple of things in 
> an attempt to create a Share Point that I could access from the machine that 
> is running Witango Studio.
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>
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> And I screwed things up. Now whenever I attempt to access any document on the 
> webserver I get this:
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> Access forbidden!
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> You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either 
> no index document or the directory is read-protected.
>
> If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
>
> Error 403
>
> 10.0.1.10
> Tue Jan 25 19:13:10 2011
> Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
>
> And while I thought that I had Time Machine turned on, I must have turned it 
> off so I can't even restore.
>
> In System Admin's logs for the webserver, I see this:
>
> Tue Jan 25 19:13:10 2011 error http://client 10.0.1.16 (13)Permission denied: 
> access to / denied
>
> Is this an easy fix and if so can someone help me out?
>
>
>
> Steve Smith
>
>
>
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