Aggregate setup: does the super-user email address have to be with Google?

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install with "ODK Aggregate v1.0 windows-installer.exe"
2. Elect to use MySQL instead of Google App Engine in the 'Choose Platform' 
screen
2. Proceed to the 'Super-user Email Address' screen, where the prompt is 
"Please enter a valid Gmail account or Google Apps account"
3. Get confused ;-)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Non-confusion.

I don't suppose that one does have to use a Google account when not using the 
App Engine, but I got it all installed and things are not working, so I thought 
I'd clear this up.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
"ODK Aggregate v1.0 windows-installer.exe" on Windows XP.

Please provide any additional information below.
The Gmail requirement is referred to in issue 222, where it's also mentioned 
that that it's been resolved.

(Actually, I'm trying to sort out a infinite redirection problem, akin to 
http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit-developers/browse_thread/thread/2e2ae
4dc578e5cb/be7c3edf3ec5fd60 where Mitch mentioned that it could be something to 
do with not having Google Web Toolkit, and I just wondered whether my lack of 
gmail-ery was anything to do with it.)

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by samwilsonau on 9 Nov 2011 at 5:06

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Original comment by wbrune...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 5:20

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Yes, you must specify an email that can be authenticated against the Google 
infrastructure -- either a Gmail account or a Google Apps account.  We don't 
ask for a password for this account, and rely on Google to do the verification 
of your login information. 

If you are getting an infinite redirect:

(1) were you upgrading from an earlier (pre-RC1) version?  If so, you may need 
to drop some database tables or do some manual configuration steps to adjust 
the earlier database structure to the one used in the release candidates and 
production release.

(2) For MySQL, did you remember to copy the Connector/J library into Tomcat's 
lib directory?

(3) When you specified your hostname, did you use a fully-qualified hostname or 
IP address?  "localhost" is not appropriate.  If you don't have a 
fully-qualified hostname that identifies your computer, search for "Free 
DynamicDNS" and use one of those services to get one.

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 5:57

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Thank you for clearing that up!  I was doing my head in trying to log in 
yesterday.  I got the redirecting cleared up (see below) and then tried to 
'Sign in with Aggregate password' -- but you're saying that this also uses 
google authentication (along with the 'Sign in with Google' option)?

Ah, no, I see now: the *Aggregate administrator* has to log in with a Google 
account (specified at set-up), but then the normal users log in with Aggregate 
credentials, and do not need to have Google accounts.  Is that right?  (I'd 
test this, but I'm now getting the error that's being talked about in this 
thread 
http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit/browse_thread/thread/e083b913c5c93be1
 but that's separate from this issue, so feel free to close this.)

As for the redirecting: it turns out that it was an error in the _case_ of the 
hostname: `gln45.example.com` _vs_ `GLN45.example.com`, and after I re-ran the 
installer with the lowercase version, all was well.

Thanks for all your help.

Original comment by samwilsonau on 10 Nov 2011 at 12:26

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Closing this issue.  Please reopen if not addressed.

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2011 at 12:13

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