Scalix 11.2 on Centos 5 ... no web access

[kbrault]

Hello everyone,
Here are the steps I took:

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1.Install Linux - minimal, no firewall, no selinux, static IP
2.yum install bind-utils compat-libstdc++-296 cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain elinks httpd nano pam_smb perl postgresql-server sendmail-cf tk wget which
3.yum update
4.nano /etc/hosts
   127.0.0.1 localhost
   192.168.111.240 scalix.stdg.lan scalix
   192.168.111.247 sme.stdg.lan sme
5.nano /etc/pam_smb.conf
   TEST
   SME
   SME
6.chkconfig postgresql on
7.chkconfig httpd on
8.reboot
9.mkdir rpm
10.cd rpm
11.wget http://downloads.scalix.com/.community/11.2/scalix-11.2.0-GA-core-rhel5-intel.tgz
12.tar -xzvf *tgz
13.rm -f *tgz
14.cd scalix-11.2.0-GA
15./scalix-installer --override=rhel5
16.nano /var/opt/scalix/sx/s/sys/pam.d/ual.remote
    auth required om_om2authid
    auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_smb_auth debug nolocalauth sufficient om_auth use_first_pass
    auth required pam_deny


Items 5 and 16 are in preparation for SMB authentication with another server.

Everything seams to go fine. but when I browse to http://192.168.111.240/sac or http://192.168.111.240/webmail I get a web page can't be found error. I can get this to work if I start with Centos 4.5.

I am fairly new to Linux. Can someone give me some ideas as to were to look for the problem?


Thank you in advance for your help,

Kevin
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[a.schild]

Hello,

I did a install on centos 5 and I can access the web interface.
Have you restarted apache (httpd) after the installation ?

In /etc/httpd/conf.d you should see the file scalix-tomcat-connector.conf and a symbolic link named scalix-web-client.conf pointing toward /opt/scalix/global/httpd/scalix-web-client.conf

André

[Nimefurahi]

Kevin,
I'm having the same trouble and it's very basic. Apache won't restart. Perhaps that is your problem as well.

Included in the Scalix-Tomcat-connector rpm package is a binary module (mod_jk.so) that was compiled for an EAPI Apache2 and I believe what I've got is an API Apache (my guess) I've installed what's in the default CentOS 5 repository: (httpd 2.2.3-7.el5.centos.i386) and it refuses to play with the mod_jk module included in the Scalix 11.2.0 packages.

While I've been puttering around with Linux for the past 8 years its always been with Debian. I'm clueless with this CentOS - Red Hat thing. I'm just not familiar enough with yum. If only I could downgrade my apache server with a version that likes the resident mod_jk.so module.

Anyway, I'm just thinking aloud. The fact that all worked well with your CentOS 4.5 makes me think that there's a better apache httpd server in the 4.5 package.

I'd be interested to see how Andre got his to work. Andre ... what version of Apache (httpd) are you running?

Joe

[kbrault]

Fortunately and unfortunately I did two things at once and it works.

I attempted to re-install java after running the scalix install (yum stated it did not update anything).

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yum upgrade java

And I turned on the httpd service (may have already been on).

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chkconfig httpd on

Also, I waited longer after the reboot before making an attempt.

I do not know what did the trick.

Hope this helps.

Kevin

[Nimefurahi]

I'm curious as to what version httpd server you're running.
Mine is:

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[root@myhostname ~]# httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32


and my java is:

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root@myhostname ~]# java --version
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)


Hmmm... wait a minute. Shouldn't that be jre1.5.0_11 ?
I think I had better set the right java version and take it from there.
Thanks!

[a.schild]

httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built: Mar 21 2007 19:10:36

java --version
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


But I did let scalix install the bundled jre, so it's using the correct one.

What happens when you try to start the apache ?

[Nimefurahi]

I can't launch Apache. It refuses and complains about the mod_jk.so module as being "garbled". Yesterday I spent considerable time googling for like complaints and found quite a few. It seems to be an issue of the Apache being compiled with API and the module being compiled with EAPI. Rather than compiling my own, I searched for other binary mod_jk modules, but none worked.

Today (at work) I've burned the iso's for CentOS 4.5. Browsing through the installation CD's I noticed that the 4.5 platform utilizes Apache 2.0.52 instead of 2.2.2 (or whatever). When I get home this evening I plan to remove the installed Apache and replace it with the 2.0.52 version out of the CentOS 4.5 distribution.

At least that's my plan for the moment. (Plan #1)

Plan #2 is one of interest as well. Overnight I had a TRK live CD busily fetching data off off a broken Windows XP disk. (That ntfs-3g program is cool). This morning I found where TRK sucessfully archived otherwise unreadable data off the XP disk. Now, with a reformat of that 250GB drive, I'll have room on a spare drive do as you did at the top of this thread!

Thanks!

[Valerion]

I wouldn't recommend that, you'll get library conflicts. You don't need to use mod_jk, I use mod_proxy on CentOS 5 and it works perfectly.

[kbrault]

Got it,

I had an older version of Java installed in the OS.

I did a "yum remove java" and reinstalled Scalix and all is well in the world again.


Kevin