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Zend Server CE is an awesome product.  We had installed it just after it’s release but hadn’t really delved into all it’s features until today.  We were just using it as a quick web server, but we weren’t doing any development in the environment.  But that is about to change.  We decided to re-work some architecture to enable development on our local computers (24″ iMacs with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard FTW).  With that decision, it meant we had to setup a solid, testable environment locally, so we decided to really put Zend Server CE to the test.  That action should have been much easier than it ended up being…

Basically, Zend Server CE and Snow Leopard don’t really play well together.  Out of the box, Zend Server CE’s management console does not work at all.  We actually found this out a few weeks ago when we were passively using Zend Server CE.  It has to do with the watchdog service in OS X.  Hopefully this will be solved in the next version of Zend Server CE.  Here is a work-around to get past the issue.

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