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Installation and Upgrades / Re: VPN Server without Port Forwarding

« on: July 08, 2014, 06:20:23 am »

Thanks for the quick reply and the link. I'll try it out tomorrow.

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Installation and Upgrades / VPN Server without Port Forwarding

« on: July 08, 2014, 04:34:09 am »

I don't understand the requirements for Zentyal to act as a VPN server. Specifically, my Zentyal server is on a LAN that accesses the internet through an ISP; all packets flow through the ISP's router/firewall using NAT, and I have no access to the router in order to setup port forwarding. From what I've been reading elsewhere, I would need to do something with TUN/TAP in order to "punch a hole" in the ISP's router, and also have access to a VPN server external to my LAN. Before I installed Zentyal, I used LogMeIn Hamachi under Ubuntu 12.04 with no problems (logmein.com provides the VPN server). I tried running Hamachi on my Zentyal server, but could never get it to connect (other non-Zentyal computers on the LAN were able to connect fine). Thoughts?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: [3.5] Changing Linux passwords fails

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:32:03 pm »

I rebooted and now can change passwords (even root). When all else fails, reboot :-) Sorry for the noise.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: [3.5] Changing Linux passwords fails

« on: July 04, 2014, 03:22:03 am »

You are right that root is normally not needed. I'm used to logging in to certain apps as root, for example phpMyAdmin and webmin. I suppose I should try to find out why I can't login to them as a sudo-enabled user.

I should have mentioned that I also have been unable to change the password of *any* user, getting the same error. Surely that is not correct behavior?

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Installation and Upgrades / [3.5] Changing Linux passwords fails

« on: July 03, 2014, 04:45:56 am »

I just installed 3.5 from scratch, and did a very minimal configuration (I only selected the Web Server module). I am trying to change the password of the Linux root user by typing "sudo passwd root" at the command line. First, the sudo command asks for my password, which I type. The passwd command then prompts me for the new password for root, and when I type it, I get the following error messages (two lines):

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/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd: No such file or directory
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - error loading dictionary

Any ideas?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Phpmyadmin problems

« on: July 03, 2014, 04:35:14 am »

I just now installed phpMyAdmin without any trouble, although I can't login to it, since I have been unsuccessful at changing the password of the Linux root user (in order to login to phpMyAdmin as root). Basically, I just did an "sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin" from the command line. The MySQL password is stored in /var/lib/zentyal/conf/zentyal-mysql.passwd (the phpMyAdmin installer asks for it).

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Basic Web Server / Web App Configuration

« on: July 02, 2014, 11:11:14 am »

Hey, it's lonely in this thread :-) Anyone care to join me?

For #2 below, it appears to be okay to use the MySQL server for my own apps - at least I saw forum posts alluding to that from a few years ago...

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: bare metal backup / image backup solution needed

« on: July 01, 2014, 04:40:09 am »

A few months ago, I played around with all the open source bare metal backup solutions that I could find, and the only one that I had much luck with is Relax and Recover (referred to as ReaR, see http://relax-and-recover.org). It is very actively supported, and for me the best thing was that it works with complex formatting schemes. For example, I use two disks to build two separate Linux software RAID1 arrays, with LVM on top of one of the arrays. ReaR backs up and recreates this flawlessly.

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Installation and Upgrades / Basic Web Server / Web App Configuration

« on: June 30, 2014, 05:35:13 pm »

Sorry for the naive questions, but I even bought the config ebook hoping for a detailed explanation of how to configure a web server (as well as web apps I want to install on it) under Zentyal 3.x (I'm using the latest beta 3.5 until the release tomorrow). I know how to configure Apache 2 under various Linux distros, and see that Zentyal itself is using Nginx internally.

So my basic questions are:

• Is it going against the spirit of the software to directly install my own web apps on the internal Nginx server?
  
• Same for the pre-installed instance of MySQL, i.e. my web app uses MySQL, so should I use the one that is installed with Zentyal, or should I try to figure out how to make two MySQL servers co-exist - the internal one installed in the LSB directories, and another installed somewhere else, such as /usr/local?
  
• Assuming I'm supposed to use virtual hosts, as shown in the documentation, where should I put my content? For example, I tried creating a virtual host called "test" - should I put my content in /var/www/test? I saw in an earlier post somewhere in one of the Zentyal forums that it should be /srv/www/...
  
• Is it possible to use the default virtual host for my own web content? I.e. if my host is running Zentyal (accessible at https:192.168.1.30:443), should I be able to host my own web content at http://192.168.1.30:80?
  

Maybe my problem is that I need to read the doc like a newbie instead of a geek that knows a little too much (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing :-)

Many thanks in advance, and I'm looking forward to the 3.5 release!

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Recommended Config for Daily Builds

« on: June 15, 2014, 03:30:22 pm »

Thanks. I installed from the repositories on top of a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 server (a VirtualBox VM) and it seems to have worked without any problems.

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Installation and Upgrades / Recommended Config for Daily Builds

« on: June 14, 2014, 11:05:34 pm »

I'd like to start using the daily builds as the 3.5 release approaches. I'd prefer not to download the entire ISO each day, as it takes several hours for me to download here in Ecuador. Can I start with a base install of Ubuntu Server 14.04 and then install from the beta repository (and later update daily)?