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Greetings. We are currently testing Scalix for possible replacement of our current mail server software. I set up a new server with an updated clean install of CentOS 4.



I modified /etc/redhat-release to contain only Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)

I used the installation file scalix-11.0.2-GA-core-rhel4-intel.tgz with SELinux disabled and firewall turned OFF.

The /etc/hosts file contains only the lines below:



I did a typical installation accepting all defaults.

Apache is running on port 80 and the test page shows up when going to the servers url. When trying to access webmail, http://xxx.xxxx.xxx/webmail/ I get a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error.





Here's the contents of the catalina.2007-03-02.log file:


catalina.out contains similar entries.



I can confirm that there is nothing listening on port 8009. I made sure java was configured properly.


Here's a list of all the packages installed on the system.


I'd appreciate any help you can provide us.

Well, I am just finalising a document I hope the admins here will make a sticky. It's called "Failproof Scalix Install on CentOS4". I've done about 8 in the past month, so I have tripped over almost all the problems!!

What address are you trying to get the web page up on? Try both (127.0.0.1 and your real IP). You just want to be able to see the default apache page to see if apache is even properly set up.

I don't like your /etc/hosts file.

I like mine to be:
127.0.0.1 {TAB} {TAB} localhost
99.245.122.76 {TAB} host.mymail.com host

Try seeing if you can get the Apache default page, and then try to modify your /etc/hosts.

I will post my document prob on Monday.

I would GREATLY appreciate it if you could post that document. I have modified my /etc/hosts file and confirmed that Apache is running. I could bring up the default Apache page for both the 127.0.0.1 IP and the real IP specified in the hosts file. When I try to access the /webmail URL, it fails with .


Regards,

A.W.

Me too.

@platinumriver: Don't know about your setup obviously.
What helped me was commenting out

<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" />

in /var/opt/scalix/sx/tomcat/conf/server.xml and restarting the whole thing.
See:
viewtopic.php?t=6431

It now runs like a charm. But that's on a non-production server.

Regards,

Bernhard

Because I am clueless when it comes to Wiki's, I posted my document here:

http://swifttide.com/scalix/Scalix_Setup.html

You should note that clamav recently changed to a higher release and my notes don't reflect that.

You will notice in my install doc that once or twice, I either kill X (ctrl-Alt-Backspace) or logout and log back in.

I just did a clean install on a P3 850 Mhz with 256 M Ram.....not bad....it moves along OK!

Let me know if it works for you guys or not.

Doug

I'll just note that the recommendation for SX11 is 1 gig of RAM. It will run with less, but you'll feel it, especially when PostgreSQL gets busier. I'd plan to add more. SWA will also perform noticably better with more RAM, especially if there are several users at the same time.

I've seen mention on bugzilla that crashed services were "possible" with so little RAM, though clearly, it does work.

Kev.

Thanks Kev. Yeah, this one is just a "bangup" box to get it going and let a few people play around on it.

No Prob. I just wanted to warn you (and others) that it isn't recommended, and that you likely will see stability issues with it if it's a busy production box.

Kev.