how to delete or reset mac os x lion server

By preparing a lion DVD and booting from it installing Lion and finally aplying lion server again

yes

Hopefully you have not already done that. You can fix that error by editing a couple of files using terminal. In the apache conf files. Let me know if you need instructions or if you already reinstalled.

goeres wrote:

By preparing a lion DVD and booting from it installing Lion and finally aplying lion server again

Next time I'll read the post with my glasses on 😊

There is a little tuto to prepare a DVD I all tied it out but you always have to start with OSX Server 10.6

My advice is set up an entier 10.7 server version and my a copy with CCC on a spare disk. It gives you more peace to play and test around and gives you the chance to bring you quickly to the starting point.

Hi, what are the terminal commands? My Mac Lion Sever is messed and I want to clear/reset it. I have a server directory but I want to get rid of it. Also, my server seems to have forgotten the Administrator password so I can't get into the Server App.

Any update here? i messed up the configuration too....i have mac mini with snow leopard server installed initially...works fine...but when i loaded up lion server....upgrade failed, but was able to restart and booted up...but then things didn't work well anymore....calendar was not working, webmail doesnt work right, the wiki server does not work too....please provide updates to this

I had similar problem.

I need following.

1. Turn off all services under Server app.

2. Under Hardware, settings, change SSL certificate to "none"

3. Under Hardware, network, reset host name again.

4. Under Hardware, settings, change SSL certificate back to correct one

5. Turn Web service ON.

It may still say /var/empty.

6. Turn Wiki service ON

7. Recheck Web service. It should be changed to /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default.

Hope this helps.

Still doesn't work no Web server found.

OS X Lion works just like Windows VISTA

Try this, it worked for me.

In Terminal.app:

cd /etc/apache2/sites

sudo -s # become admin--you will have to enter your password here

rm 0000_any_443_.conf

cp 0000_any_80_.conf.default 0000_any_80_.conf

cp virtual_host_global.conf.default virtual_host_global.conf

exit # go back to being a normal user

Then go back to Server.app and restart your services.

First off, if you've been mucking around with the config files, their permissions are probably out of whack. And just for good measure it's a good idea to fix the permissions before going any further. From the Terminal or an SSH session, run:

sudo diskutil repairPermissions /

Next, according to the Lion Server: Advanced Administration Manual, you reset the web settings with:

sudo serveradmin command web:command=restoreFactorySettings

Note that it's very important for you to have left the various ".default" files intact in the

/etc/apache2/sites/

That should do the trick and reset the Web service to factory settings. That said, I've reset my web server back to the defaults several times and I'm still seeing the

/var/empty

Turns out this whole "/var/empty" business is due to a bad default configuration for Apache Virtual Hosts on Apple's part. To fix it:

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites/00000_EnableVirtualHosts.conf

Type the following onto the first line:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Hit ctrl-O to save, then ctrl-X to close. And then reload the apache configuration with:

$ sudo apachectl graceful

Apple may (and should) fix this problem in a future 10.7 update. If they do, just remove the "00000_EnableVirtualHosts.conf" file and reload Apache again with the last command.