Saturday, May 30, 2015

Alfresco on OS X Mavericks

Basically, I had a ton of issues getting Alfresco 4.2 onto OS X Mavericks and I finally looked up "alfresco 4.2 mavericks install fail" and found that tons of other people had the same problem.

Upon searching "alfresco 5 mavericks install" nobody complained about it not working, so I downloaded it from the link below.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/?source=typ_redirect

Now reading the docs http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/concepts/dev-repo-extension-points.html

Cheers.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Create services in *nix systems using chkconfig

Hello there.

Long time no see because I've been messing around with Ghost blogs on localhost. However, I'm currently on a machine that doesn't have Ghost and I don't want to create another one here due to fragmentation. Eventually I'll be hosting my own Ghost server so I can use that...

I'm installing Tomcat7 on this box. Standard install location is /opt.

I want to make it a service so I can run

service tomcat start|stop|restart.

I remembered there was something called chkconfig to do that, so I looked it up.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/06/chkconfig-examples/
Whoops, this doesn't exist on Mac OS X. Unsure if it's worth learning how to create services/daemonize things in Mac.

http://batsov.com/articles/2012/12/09/from-linux-to-osx-meet-your-new-apps/
In OS X, you use launchctl...