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David Holt 32.1 1 If you are accessing your application with URLs that look like [[http://localhost:45437/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AppName.woa/]] (with the xxx:portnum instead of xxxx/-portnum) ... then you are using the [[Evil Direct Connect>>Web Applications-Development-Direct Connect]]. See that [[page>>Web Applications-Development-Direct Connect]] for why you don't want to be using Direct Connect. See this page for how to stop.
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Kieran Kelleher 28.1 3 = Turning on Apache =
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David Holt 32.1 5 Go to **System Preferences > Sharing > Services** and turn on **Personal Web Sharing** if it is not already on.
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Kieran Kelleher 22.1 7 When you turn on your web server, Apache will listen on the network interfaces that were configured when it starts. If you change networks, you may need to manually restart apache. You can do this by either stopping and restarting Personal Web Sharing, or you can run "apachectl restart" from the commandline as the root user. Because this can get annoying if you are working on a laptop, or periodically using VPN's, there are a couple ways to make this process easier.
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Pascal Robert 56.1 9 = Optional Extra Configuration: Explicitly Setting Your Hostname =
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11 {{info title="Useful Information"}}
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Kieran Kelleher 54.1 13 The changes in this section are only required if you want your hostname to be stable across network changes. While this simplifies many aspects of development (like testing cookies and https), it may cause problems with those specific aspects (cookies, https, etc.) if you need to be able to access your dev machine from a remote machine, including if you need to be able to test your web app from a Parallels VM.
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Kieran Kelleher 54.1 15 Bonjour Delays: Apparently the procedure here is also useful for preventing "Bonjour" delays when you launch the browser to test your app on your development machine.
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Kieran Kelleher 22.1 17 {{/info}}
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Kieran Kelleher 28.1 19 == Edit Apache Config ==
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Pascal Robert 56.1 21 {{warning title="Bonjour, comment ça va? .... Trés bien, merci!"}}
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Pascal Robert 56.1 23 *Do NOT try to use the Bonjour / Rendezvous name of your machine in this step.* It will cause you grief. Accept this and don't even try. You have been warned.
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Pascal Robert 56.1 25 {{/warning}}
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Kieran Kelleher 60.1 27 Edit **/etc/httpd/httpd.conf**, find the line containing **ServerName** and change it to this:
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31 ServerName localhost
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Kieran Kelleher 60.1 35 That line may be commented out by default. You can simply uncomment it (remove the leading pound sign) and then restart apache:
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39 sudo apachectl restart
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Pascal Robert 56.1 43 == Tell the adaptor to use localhost ==
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45 Edit **/System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf** to make sure that your enabled/uncommented WebObjectsConfig property looks like this:
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49 WebObjectsConfig http://localhost:1085 10
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51 {{/code}}
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Kieran Kelleher 28.1 53 == Tell wotaskd to Use Localhost Too ==
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Kieran Kelleher 22.1 55 Edit **/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/Contents/Resources/Properties**
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57 Add this line after the **WOPort=1085** one:
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61 WOHost=localhost
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63 {{/code}}
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65 Now you need to restart wotaskd:
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Pascal Robert 31.1 69 sudo systemstarter stop "WebObjects Services"
70 sudo systemstarter start "WebObjects Services"
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72 {{/code}}
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David Holt 32.1 74 or
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David Holt 32.1 76 restart wotaskd and womonitor with launchctl if your WebObjects install launches that way.
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Kieran Kelleher 28.1 78 == Finally, Configure your Application ==
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80 Add or edit these launch parameters:
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Kieran Kelleher 22.1 82 {{code}}
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Pascal Robert 24.1 84 -WODirectConnectEnabled false
85 -WOHost localhost
86 -WOAdaptorURL http://localhost/cgi-bin/WebObjects
87 -WOPort 5555
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89 {{/code}}
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Pascal Robert 24.1 91 The WOPort is optional, but useful if you want consistent URLs for bookmarks and such. You can use any number you want, but it needs to be unique for each application you launch (or rather, you can only run one app instance on a given WOPort at a time). In WOLips, WOPort, WODirectConnectEnabled, and WOAdaptorURL already exist and just need to be updated. WOHost does not, and needs to be added. The dash in front of the name ("-WOHost") is important and must be in the name for the setting to work properly.
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David Holt 32.1 93 You may want to set this in your global WOLips settings so you don't have to set it every time you make a new launch configuration. You will need to go back and modify existing launch configurations with these settings even if you set it globally. Global settings only apply to newly created launch configurations.
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Pascal Robert 56.1 95 = Apache Restart =
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Pascal Robert 56.1 97 {{info title="Why would I need this?"}}
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Pascal Robert 56.1 99 If you have a laptop and you get an "Application cannot be found" or some such error in the browser after auto-switching networks (for example going from a work network to a home network), restarting apache can resolve the error condition most of the time. A script is shown below to do that.
100 If you already implemented the "localhost" explicit hostname setup above, then you will probably not need to bother with this section.
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Pascal Robert 24.1 104 == Making a restart script ==
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Pascal Robert 24.1 106 Create a script named /usr/local/bin/restartApache and set the contents to:
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Pascal Robert 24.1 110 #!/bin/bash
111 /usr/sbin/apachectl stop
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113 /usr/sbin/apachectl start
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115 {{/code}}