I installed Tracks version 1.6-2 using bitnami, had previously installed Tracks 1.7rc2-1 using bitnami but encountered the same problem I am now asking for help on.  I uninstalled Tracks 1.7rc2-1 using the uninstall app. that came with the bitnami stacks installer.

Everything was working wonderfully, I had Tracks in my 1password keychain, just had to click on it and it would bring up the log in window then I would just click one password again to put in the password and i was in.  I have an administrator account, and two separate user accounts.

I shut down my Intel iMac, 2007 model running leopard 10.5.6 and when it restarted I could no longer get into Tracks, but instead get this error message:

Failed to Connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8080.

I’m also running Little Snitch and the firewall is set for specific services and applications: mysqld.bin and .ruby.bin are configured to allow incoming connections.

Is there a terminal command I can try or is there a log file I can send to someone in the know.

I’m attaching the Apache2 error file because I thing it might have some to do with something or other listening at the right port.

It might be worth mentioning that I tried to connect to Tracks using my Macbook as well.

Can anybody help me please, I love this product after trying a least five other GTDs.

You need to run the server each time you log out of your Mac user account or restart the machine. The instructions for how to do that are in the README.txt which came with your Bitnami installation, but here’s what you do.

Open Terminal and type:

Note that you need to change the ‘tracks-1.7rc2-1’ bit as appropriate to your installation. Then in the terminal:

You should see some messages about MySQL and Apache starting and so forth. When it is finished, you can visit Tracks in your browser. If you want to stop or restart Tracks, just substitute either ‘stop’ or ‘restart’ for ‘start’ in the code above. There are some instructions on the Bitnami site for installing a service on Mac OS X so that you don’t have to do this manually:

http://bitnami.org/article/how-to-install-services-on-osx

Hope that helps. I don’t think your problem was related to the version of the stack, so I would reinstall 1.7 as it has some bugfixes over 1.6.

Thank you for your prompt and easy to understand instructions, once again I am up and running with the 1.7 edition and I am loving it.

I take my hat off to you and everyone involved in this project, it is a piece of art.

Once again,

Thank you.