Leopard Re Installation: Part 2

I reformat using the same filesystem my external hard drive uses. Then set UID to 1000 in the System Preferences > Accounts > Advanced Options (right click on username). After that chown whole home directory.

PHP and Leopard Server : mach-o, but wrong architecture

May 22 19:33:34 amanyus org.apache.httpd[96895]: httpd: Syntax error on line 143 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:\n\t/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
May 22 19:33:34 amanyus com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[96895]): Exited with exit code: 1
May 22 19:33:34 amanyus com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds


Insert installation disc. Open up terminal.


$ cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Server\ Install\ Disc/System/Installation/Packages/
$ open .

Run Essentials.pkg and install it to an empty filesystem or empty folder. the libphp.so will be inside [install_dir]/usr/libexec/apache2 directory.

It intrigues people when...

May 16 15:13:59 amanyus ReportCrash[6560]: Formulating crash report for process Finder[226]
May 16 15:13:59 amanyus com.apple.launchd[207] ([0x0-0xb00b].com.apple.finder[226]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
May 16 15:14:02 amanyus mDNSResponder[30]: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0
May 16 15:14:03: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 16 15:14:03 amanyus ReportCrash[6560]: Saved crashreport to /Users/amanyus/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-05-16-151352_amanyus.crash using uid: 1000 gid: 20, euid: 1000 egid: 20

...because it is rare. At least it didn't take any other application down. Just auto-relaunch Finder.

Spotlight Doesn't Search a Thing

Open Terminal application (Application > Utilities > Terminal) and run this command:

sudo mdutil -a -i

This command will turn on indexing on all volumes except impossible volumes such as DVD volumes and unsupported filesystems volumes. mdutil command is a command to manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight. Every volumes are separated-ly managed. Means for example you can turn on indexing on /home only instead of all volumes.

You can check the status first before simply turning on by running this command:

sudo mdutil -a -s

There is a good side for enabling indexing on few Volumes. It will narrow down search with the area that we want. Definitely we don't have to go through / to search documents in /Volumes/ExternalDisk.

PS: Volumes is not mount points. Volumes can be seen on your desktop. The hard disk icon, Macintosh HD is a volume.

Once you turn on indexing, you can see a slow blinking dot at the spotlight button at the top right corner of your Mac.