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thedavidjackson
09-27-2004, 12:25 PM
I had some serious trouble setting up the Laszlo System on Mac OSX. There were some holes in the documentation on the site, so here's what I worked out for myself.

1 - Once LPS is downloaded and unzipped, I moved the entire directory into the root level of my local Apache server install.

2 - When I write new files, I save them into the my-apps directory (as the online documentation suggests), but there's a specific path to get there (which is not as intuitive as I suspected), which is:
(path to local server root dir) > Laszlo Presentation Server 2.1.2 > jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12 > webapps > lps-2.1.2 > my-apps

(like I said, not necessarily an obvious path)

2.a - Save your .lzx file with the necessary first two lines in place:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE canvas SYSTEM "http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/tools/lzx.dtd">

3 - View your files in a browser at:
http://localhost:8080/lps-2.1.2/my-apps/new.lzx

hope this helps.
David

jsundman
09-30-2004, 05:57 AM
We'll be touching up the installation documentation soon. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

-- John, the doc guy.

bloch
10-05-2004, 03:02 PM
It might be a little easier to find things in lps 2.2.

-Eric