Topic: Webmin

[Fennec KP]

E-smith is a so cool product !!! i'm very happy with it... but ...
i have problems with configuration templates would it be possible to add something like webmin (www.webmin.net) to do advanced configuration folowing the e-smith's templates ? or add an advanced configuration menu to the e-smith manger ?

thank for your product ...

[Charlie Brady]

Fennec KP wrote:
 
> i have problems with configuration templates would it be
> possible to add something like webmin (www.webmin.net) to do
> advanced configuration folowing the e-smith's templates ?

We're well aware of webmin. However, it is incompatible with the e-smith system of templated configuration. We strongly advise you not to install webmin on an e-smith server.

> or add an advanced configuration menu to the e-smith manger ?

We would need to know which particular advanced configuration you wanted for this Wish to be implemented. And we'd have to know exactly what problems you have with configuration templates to be able to take any useful action.

Thanks for your comments on the e-smith server.

Best wishes

Charlie

[Fennec KP]

OK, so here is my problem (copy/paste from Experienced User Forum
) :

"i would like to enable symbolic links to be followed in apache (from /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/somewhere to somewhereelse) in /etc/httpd/...htpp.conf and it worked but the templates disable the symbolic links to be followed ...

i've searched but did not found this option in the templates ... where is it ? and more generaly how can i find the "link" between an option of a config file and it's templates ... is there a howto somewhere ? "

so i wanted to have a graphical tool to do advanced apache configuration.

if it is not possible, i would like to know if there is a tutorial or a howto about existing templates not how to create new ones.

thank you for reading ;o) and thank you for your great product.

ps sorry for my english ... i'm french

[Jason Miller]

I had to do this myself so that I could symlink my mp3 jukebox files from another directory and still have apache follow those links.

You want to use the e-smith templating structure (i.e. templates-custom) and change the file 90e-smithAccess40ibays.

I decided to make it a change for all my ibays:

Therefore, in:
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/90e-smithAccess40ibays

--------
             $result .= "\n";
             $result .= "\n";
-            $result .= "    Options Indexes Includes\n";
+            $result .= "    Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks\n";
             $result .= "    AllowOverride None\n";
             $result .= "    order deny,allow\n";
             $result .= "    deny from all\n";
---------

Apologies if that comes up funny in phorum.  It looks awful in the space provided due to wrapping, basically just change this line:

$result .= "  Options Indexes Includes\n";
to
$result .= "  Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks\n";

Then expand the template and gracefully restart httpd.

Regards,

Jay

[Fennec KP]

thanks a lot for help !!!!

Regards,

Fennec

[Jason Miller]

No problem.

I meant to get back to your original posting but got caught up in a horde of emails ... glad you reminded me.

Jay