Installing a new Podcast Producer Server

I have tried a few time to install a podcast producer on a new server. I used the instructions pages 21-30 on the pdf from Apple. They really seem very unclear. i have tried many things to get it working.
First it has you install dns, it has you create a primary zone for pcast.private. I am inside my domain. do i need that?
then i do get it set up. i can log into the wiki. i see my videos. when i go to play them i get the quicktime logo with a ? in it. the problem i think is that it is trying to load the video at http://server.mydomain.org/video.
however i can not get the server to have the default page. when i go to
http:\\server.mydomain.org i can not get there.
i create "a" host for that server in my dns. I can ping the server by that name. Howeve i can not get the web page up in that site name. if i could i am sure i can get the podcast to work.
Are there better instructions out there for setting this up?
thanks,

Since it's a component of OS X Server, there's a much richer discussion forum for it here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1240
-S

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Thu Dec 10 12:14:38 -0500 2009 -- Using workflow bundle: /Network/Servers/ilex.conncoll.edu/Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/Server/Workfl ows/DEFA1587-A650-426E-92DA-01C5EB811705.pwf
Thu Dec 10 12:14:38 -0500 2009 -- Assembling Metadata for recording: /Network/Servers/ilex.conncoll.edu/Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/UUIDs/9CF6B03 3-43F7-48E7-B9F9-CD8B36EB0114.prb
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Thu Dec 10 12:14:43 -0500 2009 -- Cached Workflow: /Network/Servers/ilex.conncoll.edu/Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/Server/Workfl ows/DEFA1587-A650-426E-92DA-01C5EB811705.pwf as /Network/Servers/ilex.conncoll.edu/Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/UUIDs/9CF6B03 3-43F7-48E7-B9F9-CD8B36EB0114.prb/Contents/Resources/Working/DEFA1587-A650-426E- 92DA-01C5EB811705.pwf
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Thu Dec 10 12:14:43 -0500 2009 -- =============================================================
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Processing CaptureController#file_upload (for 136.244.14.116 at 2009-12-10 12:14:37) [POST]
Session ID: 0ac1faa1ac97254a1c3cb1474d16e7fd
Parameters: {"locepisodewarn"=>"Please specify an episode title.", "locfilewarn"=>"You must specify a file to upload.", "source_file"=>#<File:/tmp/CGI20091210-280-1xp591x-0>, "workflowselectwarn"=>"You must choose a workflow", "title"=>"eric archer", "action"=>"file_upload", "loc_episode"=>"Episode", "loc_description"=>"Description", "controller"=>"capture", "description"=>"description", "workflow_select"=>"DEFA1587-A650-426E-92DA-01C5EB811705"}
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Completed in 6ms (View: 1, DB: 0) | 200 OK [https://ilex.conncoll.edu/podcastproducer/capture/fileuploadprogress]
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Has anyone gotten Podcast Producer to work consistently? I only had it work once yesterday for one Blog. After that I was not able to connect to the server from Podcast Capture. Kept on getting an error related to unknown username or password. Even logged into the podcast server I couldn't access either the pcastadmin or pcastuser. Tried to delete the users and start over again. Still no success. Wiped the computer and started over again, I setup everything needed. Xgrid would only show its own controller and agent on the Podcast Producer Server. The agents showed they are connected to the XGrid in the XGrid system preference. Since 10.5 Server came out I have installed and tried to configure Podcast Producer at least 9 times. Finally this morning it would upload the video but it never went anywhere. The logs only showed that there were some permission errors on the external storage that is being used for sharing.
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I did not have any of these issues.
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3: Encodings cannot be changes due to lack of a tool for it
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
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Not sure if this will fix your problem, but I was having the same problem until I looked at the specs for XGrid, it has to run on an Intel Mac. This is where you can get the specs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
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Xsan for optional cluster file services
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Xsan for optional cluster file services
Quartz Extreme-enabled video chipset
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-y

In most cases, the Podcast Producer server should be your OD Master, and the replicas would reside at your other sites. I've tried binding Podcast Producer servers to another ODM and wasn't successful. I found the other way it truly works is if the PCP server is its own ODM (I believe the kerberos realm has to be created). OD replicas would only provide as a backup if the master goes down, but unless you have PCP services running on both the master and replica (which I DO NOT recommend), it won't matter if you master goes down

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We are in the process of setting up our xserve for podcast producer, but I am running into an issue.
When I submit a podcast, the job shows up in Xgrid Admin but then fails shortly after. When I look at the individual job log, it fails on the same task each time:
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task "publish-plugin-movie-generated" state changed to "Failed"
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Please let me know if you have any suggestions, as I can't find really anything about this error online or in any other documentation.

This group is usually reserved for issues specific to the Xserve itself and you are more likely to get an answer - or at least get more experienced eyes on your problem in a more appropriate group. Like the Podcast Producer discussion group:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1355
A very technical discussion of this issue - or at least a very similar one is here at StackOverFlow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1733426/ruby-threads-cannot-be-used-in-rubyco coa-without-patches-to-the-ruby-interpreter
Good luck,
=Tod

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