Forum Problems Installing LAMS: Re: LAMS on MAC cant find localhost

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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We found a few issues and managed to workaround them... here they are for those who are looking for help:

1. First issue was the default java being used was Java 1.5; LAMS needs 1.4.2. You can test which one your system is using by doing 'java -version' in a Terminal. Fortunately OS X also had 1.4.2 installed, you just need to point LAMS to it. To do this, add a line to the file /usr/local/lams-1.0.2/etc/lams.conf. See http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/technicalcommunity/forums/message-view?message%5fid=243855#246607 this post for details.

2. Second issue was to do with Allan's laptop being behind a proxy requiring authentication - this can be fixed by updating LAMS to a more recent version, as the one that comes with the installer is a little outdated. Just replace the files lams.war, lams-1.0.jar, and hibernate.sar in the jboss/server/default/deploy directory with the updated versions. You can download the updated versions from the unix package (http://saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/installers/lams-server-1.0.2-20060505.tar.gz)

3. Last issue was that the 'Stop LAMS Server' button doesn't stop LAMS, but starts it - in this case, LAMS won't start properly. You'll need to kill the existing LAMS processes since LAMS won't start if JBoss is already running. One way to do this is to just restart the system.

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew