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I tried to install scalix on my FC4 box that meets all of the hardware requirements posted on the scalix website. I downloaded and printed the install guide and followed the instructions. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but after installing scalix, I am unable to access it from any browser on any machine. I do not use a domain because I want to test it at my home before using it for my church, which currently uses MSExchange. I do, however use MS Workgroups, because of this, I think the problem might be that I am not using a domain, however, at using Linux for a little under a year and being at the age of 15, I do not fully comprehend the linux OS and its networking requirements. Please Help!

Could you give some details on what you are trying, i.e. what Scalix component you are trying to access: webclient or admin console ? Also, what URLs are you using ?

Can you also check that you have tomcat running.

Cheers

Dave

I checked and have Tomcat running. I am unable to access any component of scalix. I used the URLS that are in the QuickInstall guide.

spledger wrote:I checked and have Tomcat running. I am unable to access any component of scalix. I used the URLS that are in the QuickInstall guide.

Please can you post them ( you can edit the server name for privacy ) and the errors that are being reported in the browser.

Cheers

Dave

When I go to the url http://linuxsever:8080/webmail or http://linuxserver:8080/sac I get a reply that says (in Firefox) Unable to establish a connection to linuxserver:8080. In IE, I get an error message saying that the server refused the connection when attempting to connect to http://linuxserver:8080/

It appears to me that the port 8080 does not work or is incorrectly routed.

Connection refused usually indicates that you don't have anything listening on port 8080.

From your PC, are you able to resolve the name linuxserver ? Can you ping it.

A quick test from your PC would be to run:

ping linuxserver

followed by

telnet linuxserver 8080

If the first works but the second returns an error, you should sign in to the server and run the command:

lsof -i :8080

This will show you which processes have that port open.

If java is listed, tomcat is listening so it's likely to be a firewall (iptables) problem. You should configure your firewall to allow port 8080.

Cheers

Dave

When I ran the

lsof -i :8080

command, All it returned was:

"You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root"

Nothing else was listed. Does this mean that Java is not started? If so, how do I start it?

This means nothing is listening on port 8080.

To start tomcat, you need to run the command:

where $TOMCAT_HOME is, obviously, the place you installed tomcat.

In the admin_resource_kit/ directory in the Scalix software package, there is a sample init.d script which can be used to start tomcat at boot time.

Cheers

Dave

Thank you very much for all of your help! I very much appreciate it. I do, however, have one question remaining:

Is the reason it is running slow because I only have a 400MHz Pentium III processor? -- if so, I will upgrade when I put it to use at my church.

Thanks again!

A 400Mhz PIII probably is a bit on the slow side. I run a server for five of us at home on a 733Mhz PIII -- it's fine for just five of us using Thunderbird, but I'm pretty sure it would be painful if we used SWA.

jch

Generally speaking, Scalix is not a very CPU-intensive application when using Outlook or Thunderbird or so as a client; sufficient RAM (min. 512 MB) will be more important. However, when using SWA, a lot of the processing is done by the Tomcat Java Application Server - which, as most things that have to do with Java, need a bit more horsepower. We would probably recommend a P4-class CPU system with 512 MB as a useful minimum; details certainly depend on the number of users and type of client they use. Disk performance plays a role as well.

On the other hand, during trainings, we usually run a Scalix Server in a VMWare workstation client; that works reasonably well..

Cheers,
Florian.