[FX.php List] [OFF-TOPIC] Anyone using OS X Server?

Jonathan Schwartz jonathan at exit445.com
Wed May 16 17:27:07 MDT 2007


Great answer, Kevin. ;-)

J

At 9:20 AM +1000 5/17/07, Kevin Futter wrote:
>On 17/5/07 8:45 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>>  If only I could get it to work... I'm not finding the string they
>>  told me to look for... sigh...
>
>What tools are you using to try to edit the conf file Bob? There are easy
>ways and hard ways. You will find that the conf files are both hidden and
>marked read-only, so you'll need to deal with those hurdles up front. You
>can edit them via the command line and Terminal, but they're just text
>files, so any decent text editor will work. If you use TextWrangler or
>BBEdit, you can open hidden files directly into these programs, saving you
>one set of steps. That way you can also search for the string you need to
>edit, rather than trying to spot it by eye (nearly impossible in those conf
>files unless you're really familiar with them).
>
>Anyway, setting AllowOverride to All is the key. The other thing to be aware
>of in some of the help pages on the web is that they're talking about the
>process as applicable to OS X client, not server (the Clagnut one for
>instance). The basics are the same, but file locations and names can be
>different, even between versions of OS X Server (changed from Panther to
>Tiger for instance).
>
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>Kevin Futter
>Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
>http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
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