Cannot select Wiki server for Group in 10.5.8 WGM

Question

I have a server with a number of wikis that were created under the server's main site, i.e. apache virtual host (i.e.: fqdn of the server).
In addition, I had one wiki that was created under a second site (virtualhost) in order to hide it from the publicly accessible list of available wikis under 10.5.x (http://server.domain.com/groups/).
This wiki does still exist - the folder and wiki pages are all there under /Library/Collaboration/Groups/ but it won't show up under its own site or the main site.
In addition, when I select a site as the collaboration server for a particular group inside WorkGroupManager, my selection doesn't stick - the servername is greyed out. However working wiki groups will continue to work, but I cannot re-bind that single wiki group to its site.
I know there are some changes in 10.5.8, probably in transition to 10.6 server, regarding the usage of the ServiceLocactor LDAP group attribute. I don't think I have seen a similar problem in OSXS 10.5.7 or earlier. Has anyone else run into this?

Answer 1

After more oddities, I believe to have it fixed.
Deleting and re-creating the Sites in ServerAdmin did make the hosted sites selectable as wiki servers, however the choice didn't stick.
The system log gave me this at every save operation in the Web Services Module in ServerAdmin:
<pre>servermgr_web: Failure saving group services update</pre>
I believe the Global UID of the webservices in the server's apple-serviceinfo LDAP attribute was never updated from a move of the server to newer hardware and an OD merge operation.
I am not sure which of my actions lead to success and I am not free to experiment, but here is what I did:
Upgraded apache from v.1.3 to v.2.2 in the WebServices Module
Located the apple-serviceinfo attribute for the $FQDN using Inspector in WorkGroupManager
located a custom port assignment (8008 for an old virtualhost) and changed it to 80
deleted all virtualhosts in ServerAdmin
recreated all virtualhosts in ServerAdmin using FQDN in servername and description
enabled Collaboration Services on all virtualhosts
Re-enabled the new virtualhosts as wikiservers for their respective groups
The auto-created GUID (global identifier) of the server is:
<pre>1F72EE26-32FA-4DC4-921D-13561C188C63</pre>
The auto-created GUID (global identifier) in the server's serviceinfo entry (part of section for virtualhost shown) is now:
<pre>
<key>9EC33DDF-FDEG-4444-8090-B8B559EE2042</key>
<dict>
<key>hostDescription</key>
<string>server.domain.net</string>
<key>hostDetails</key>
</pre>
This corresponds exactly to one ServicesLocator entry of that group:
<pre>1F72EE26-32FA-4DC4-921D-13561C188C63:9EC33DDF-FDEG-4444-8090-B8B559EE2042:w iki
ServerGUID:VirtualhostGUID:servicename</pre>