| The intel iMac (2 GHz) finally arrived, and am happy to report that it works very well for WO development. Here are some comparisons with my old development machine (G4 dual 1.25 GHz) working an a very big WO project:
Build from clean: G4 = 65 secs, iMac = 40 secs
Run a WO process that is computationally expensive and uses huge numbers of WO entities: G4= 437 secs, iMac = 245 secs
As well as this, Safari is much, much faster. and some of the WO application performance is embarrassingly faster than our production dual-processor G5 XServe. And very importantly, X-Plane goes very well indeed, and the big screen makes it so much easier to see the runway when turning in the landing circuit!
But seriously, there is just one fly in the ointment. I was not able to get my OSX Server apache configuration files to work, despite a great deal of fiddling. So now I am using the apache settings as installed with OSX client and as modified by the Xcode/WO installation, and that works fine in direct connect mode, eg myHost:7777. But it doesn't work in the mode I need for testing, eg myHost/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa/-7777/wa/etc. It gives the message "Application not found."
It's so long since I used OSX client that I've forgotten how to modify the apache setup to make it work for this mode. Could somebody please give me a hint?
Regards Thomas On 18/01/2006, at 10:00, Alex Johnson wrote:
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Thomas wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, folks.
The reason I like to use OSX Server is because I have already done all the hard work in getting mod_rewrite working for the various virtual sites, and I don't want to have to fiddle with and support two different environments for development and deployment.
No problem! You can use nearly the same apache config on Mac OS X [client].
I simply copy my "httpd" files from the server (more or less). Then, I change all of the host names from, for example, "www.example.com" to "www-example-com" and add an entry in NetInfo that resolves "www-example-com" to 127.0.0.1.
Seems to work fine for me.
Alex Johnson
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