Comments on: Installing Omeka in a Local Sandbox on a Mac (OS 10.8)

By: zenius

zenius — Sun, 28 May 2017 01:47:02 +0000

its great,,, I Like it…….

By: baltlokis

baltlokis — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:15:08 +0000

like it

By: Gifari

Gifari — Sat, 09 May 2015 07:28:33 +0000

Nice , i can try my own omeka and if i want my local omeka to online setting is same or i have to change something ? Sorry I’m still a beginner in this case

By: Josh Westgard

Josh Westgard — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:17:17 +0000

Hello Mesut, Turning on error reporting is the way to go. If you are using a Mac (which I assume since this post was written for Mac users!) then you might not be able to find the .htaccess file because it is classed as a ‘hidden’ file by the OS. To see the hidden files in a directory you can use the command “ls -a” while in the directory in your terminal window. To toggle the visibility of hidden files in the Finder, you can use the following command in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles '1'
Then restart the finder with:
killall Finder
To toggle back to invisibility of those files, do:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles '0'
and then restart Finder with the above command.
There are also instructions for toggling the visibility of hidden files in the finder on this Apple Support page: https://discussions.apple.com/message/1923151#1923151
I also recommend asking for help on the Omeka forums: http://omeka.org/forums/

By: Mesut Mert

Mesut Mert — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:01:36 +0000

I followed all the steps, I installed ImageMagick with the old fashioned method but at the end I always end up with the same expression on the screen: “Omeka has encountered an error”
I could not manege to see the problem because I cannot find the .htaccess file.
Any ideas?

By: Josh Westgard

Josh Westgard — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:10:43 +0000

Another addendum: Step 4, installing Imagemagick, seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people installing Omeka for the first time. My thought was that cactuslab.com’s easy installer would avoid such problems, but no dice. Despite having tried out various paths to ImageMagick, I could only get it working properly after I installed it the old fashioned way. I’m appending the basic procedure below, which unfortunately involves a number of preliminary steps:

1. Install the Xcode developer tools from the Mac App Store. Once that is done, install the command line tools for Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ (follow the link for additional developer tools).

2. Install MacPorts from here: http://www.macports.org/install.php

3. Once you’ve got Macports installed, you can use it to install imageMagick by running the following command at the command line: $ sudo port install ImageMagick (see also http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#macosx).

I had hoped that my instructions for installation with the much less complicated cactuslab.com installer (step #4 above) for ImageMagick would work, but in the end I’ve had to revert to the old fashioned method to get Omeka up and running. Once you’ve installed ImageMagick this way, the path listed in step one of the previous addendum should work.

By: Josh Westgard

Josh Westgard — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:23:42 +0000

Addenda:

1. With respect to step 11 above, when configuring your Omeka installation the path for ImageMagick should be /opt/local/bin/.

2. Should Omeka complain upon first launch, you may find it helpful to activate error reporting using the procedure outlined here: http://omeka.org/codex/Retrieving_Error_Messages