[ZOO-Discuss] Testing the Mac OS X installer

[Gérald Fenoy]

Dear Jeff,
It's not a dumb question.

The installer suppose that the target system is using the Apache 2 version spread with the MacOS version. As the message said that the installation was successfull it means it was probably. In this default Apache version, your Cgi-bin directory is here : /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables and document root is in /Library/WebServer/Documents. So first, you should check if the files are there (ZOO-Kernel and ZOO-Services in CGI-Executables and zoo-demo directory in the Documents one). If yes, then I'm pretty sure that everything will be right after copying the files in the correspondings one regarding your specific Apache setup.

Nevertheless, no files was midified, the installer is only adding new files on your system. So you should not need any specific modifications in your apache setup.

The MapServer installer from KingKaos get the same kind of behavior, suposing that the target Apache is the default one. I was thinking that it was the best to go. If anyone get a better idea (maybe adding Apache directory selection, but will imply using default setup for cgi-bin dir and so on, probably not that easy to use something else than the default apache we are sure that every mac users get on their computer). It can be even harder if we think that somes can use macports and some other can usr portage (the Gentoo one :) ).

Hope this helps.
Best regards,

Gerald Fenoy
Gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr

Le 26 mai 2011 à 21:20, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> a écrit :

> For the documentation, I am trying to test the ZOO installer for Mac OS 
> X, on my macbook, running Snow Leopard.  (installer: 
> http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/ZooDocumentation/ZOOKernel/MacOSX_installation/ZOO-Project-Installer.pkg)
> 
> (note: I must say that if I do development I do it on Windows or on a 
> Gentoo machine...so I am not that familiar with development on a Mac)
> 
> - through MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) I have apache2 installed 
> in /opt/local/apache2/ (and I'm able to see "it works!" when I browse to 
> http://localhost/)
> 
> - I then run the installer (ZOO-Project-Installer.pkg)
> 
> - the installer finishes and states:
> 
>    ZOO-Project was correctly installed on your computer. Please make 
> sure that your Apache server is running and then access this link :
> 
>            http://localhost/zoo-demo/spatialtools-py.html
>                                            or
>               http://localhost/zoo-demo/spatialtools.html
> 
> - neither link works on my local machine
> 
> - restart apache (same problem - no zoo demo)
> 
> - actually this brings to my question: what should the installer do 
> exactly?  (what files should be modified by the installer, where should 
> the new files exist?)
> 
> Sorry for these dumb questions.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff McKenna
> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
> 
> 
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