Hi,
We've been running BASE on Mac hardware for a few years and the
installation process is pretty straightforward (these days :-). We
are not, however, currently up to the versions requiring Java 6 (our
production system is still on 10.4 though this is due to change
anydayrealsoon), so I can only speculate on that. Following the BASE
installation guide works really well AFAIK, although it really help if
you know what you are doing...
http://base.thep.lu.se/chrome/site/latest/html/admindoc/installation_upgrade/installation_upgrade.installation.html
Some OS X pointers below. We can go into detail if need be, but I
don't want to start lecturing on stuff you already know ;-)
If you have access (or an upgrade path to) an OSXS 10.5/Intel/64-bit
setup, please go ahead and use it, as the versions of mysql and tomcat
are up to date and (likely) fresh enough to be used for BASE.
Configure and activate the MySQL and Tomcat (checkbox under Web)
services in the GUI and Bob's your uncle (sort of).
If you want to run it on older hardware (PPC or 32-bit), 10.5 still
helps. I do recall being told that BASE does not actually make use of
Java 6, it's just that they don't test on any older releases anymore,
but I'll let the BASE folks comment on that. You will have to
"compile" BASE yourself though (see docs above, but basically "ant
package.bin" in the source root, then follow the standard install
instrux).
If you want to run it on 10.4, you will also have to install more up-
to-date versions of mysql and tomcat. We use the MacPorts system (http://www.macports.org/
), this highly recommended even if you don't want to run BASE. Install
1.6 from the disk image, then add msql and tomcat like so (add stuff
under /opt/local):
$ sudo -s
# sudo port install mysql5 +server
# sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5
# cp -p /opt/local/share/mysql5/mysql/my-huge.cnf /opt/local/etc/
mysql5/my.cnf
# launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
# mysqladmin5 -u root password "mysqlrootpassword"
# port install tomcat5
# cp -p /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/conf/setenv.local.sample \
/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/conf/setenv.local
: edit setenv.local :
export JAVA_JVM_VERSION=1.5
JAVA_OPTS="-jvm server -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -Djava.awt.headless=true"
# cp -p /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/conf/tomcat-users.xml.sample \
/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/conf/tomcat-users.xml
: edit tomcat-users.xml :
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="adminusername" password="adminpassword"
roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>
# tomcatctl restart
Further/up-to-date instructions (changing data root, creating the db's
etc) should be provided by the output of the "port install" commands.
N.B. MacPorts does not currently provide a tomcat6 port, but as with
Java, likely the latest 5.5 is OK (BASE guys?).
Best Regards & HTH,
Emil / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BASE looks like just what we need, but we have OS X servers, one
running 10.4 and one running 10.5. Has anyone succeeded in getting
it running on either of these platforms, and does anyone have a
recipe? I spent a little time on the 10.4 server today, but there
seems little chance of me getting the 1.6 SDK and the relevant
version of Tomcat working there. Has anyone done it on 10.5?
Thanks in advance.
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