Wikis and blogs are currently disabled..... but I enabled them.

Question

Brand new Xserve, Server version: 10.5.2
I'm going out on a limb here and admitting that I have no idea what I'm doing. My employer bought into the "so easy a non tech person can do it" idea and bought an xserve to have wikis and blogs. The idea is to have one web page with links to departmental wikis and blogs.
I set it up as an Open Directory Master, created four dummy user accounts in Workgroup Manager, a Group called Blog and put those four dummy users into that Group.
Back in Server Admin, I enabled web services and started it. The default Apple provided default home page shows up fine when I go to the ip address in a browser window. Went back into Server Admin, chose the site I just added, clicked the Sites button, clicked Web Services and enabled blog, wiki and blog, calendar, clicked Save. Stopped web service and restarted it.
When I open the page in a web browser I get the Getting Status.... and then it says wikis and blogs are disabled, use server preferences (I can't find that anywhere) or Server Admin to enable. I thought I did enable it in the web services pane.
Any advice besides head for the hills?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Changing the owner/group of wikis...
The Apple website for OS X.5 Server includes a basic primer on command line editing, you should go through it. That aside, you will need to know your administrative (root) password to accomplish this, if not, you won’t get past the first ‘su’ command. The following instructions assume you are using a completely ‘default’ setup and not trying to have your collaboration folders on another file system or anything tricky.
(FYI- as far as I know, none of the instructions I will put into the quotations will include the numeral one, they are all lower case “L”’s if it’s hard to read in this font.)
1. Open the Terminal and drag the window as big as you’d like. Type “su root” and enter your root administrative password. Be very careful from this point forward as you can do a lot of damage.
2. Type “cd /library”
3. Type “ls -l”
4. Look for the line which lists “Collaboration” in the right-hand column, it should read something like: “drwxrwxr-x 6 _teamsserver _teamsserver” in the first few columns. Everything should match except perhaps the number ‘6’. “teamsserver” is both the owner and the group for this directory.
5. Use the same command to check each of the owner and group on the subdirectories and files of the subdirectories - they should all be owner and group of _teamsserver. Following is an example from my server, note that I do not precede the “collaboration...” with a “/”, this is because I am already inside the “library” directory.
sh-3.2# ls -l collaboration
total 8
drwxr-x--- 4 _teamsserver _teamsserver 136 Apr 22 20:12 ArchivedGroups
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 374 Apr 23 11:34 Groups
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 102 Mar 14 21:43 Users
-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 249 Feb 14 17:54 dataVersion.plist
sh-3.2# ls -l collaboration/groups
total 0
drwxr-x--- 10 _teamsserver _teamsserver 340 Apr 22 21:02 pyrranwiki
sh-3.2# ls -l collaboration/groups/pyrranwiki
total 24
drwxr-x--- 4 _teamsserver _teamsserver 136 Apr 22 20:13 discussion
-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 5120 Apr 22 21:02 index.db
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 mailinglist
-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 484 Apr 23 11:34 metadata.plist
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 public
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 resources
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 weblog
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 102 Apr 22 20:12 wiki
sh-3.2# ls -l collaboration/groups/pyrranwiki/wiki
total 0
drwxr-x--- 7 _teamsserver _teamsserver 238 Apr 22 20:12 welcome.page
6. If you noticed any of these owners or groups showing something other than _teamsserver then perform the following command which will change the owner and group for the entire directory structure of /libaray/collaboration. (NOTE: Upper/lower case IS important here! NOTE: “teamsserver” has two “s”’s in it!):
chown -Rv teamsserver:teamsserver /library/collaboration
If done right, you should have a list of directories and subdirectories spit back at you.
This may only solve some of your problems, if you have more, check out the discussion “Topic : Wiki - No group with that name hosted on this server?” where I posted a fairly lengthy set of instructions to solve a different wiki problem last night.
Good luck!