Topic: ProxyPass ??? SME v7.0rc2

[Teviot]

Has anyone tried http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs//aloveless/contribs/proxypass/dmc-mitel-proxypass-0.0.1-3.noarch.rpm?

What was the result?

What modifications were made?

Regards
Adrian

[Teviot]

Anyone????

[raem]

teviot

Sure I've tried it, on sme 6.0 though.

Why don't you try it om sme 7 & let us know if it works or not, and let the author know too !

[Rien]

I tried but it don't work.

Software error:

Undefined subroutine &esmith::util::computeLocalAccessSpec called at /etc/e-smith/web/panels/manager/cgi-bin/proxypass line 89.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

[Teviot]

teviot

Sure I've tried it, on sme 6.0 though.

Why don't you try it om sme 7 & let us know if it works or not, and let the author know too !

Ray Mitchell

I would, BUT, I don't know linux. I know is complex and you need to get things right.  I don't have the knowegde to fix a system if an install goes wrong.  I don't have a test machine. The machine I use is the main machine in my network and i can't afford to lose any data or time to fix a problem created by an install that didn't work.

I seems to me that alot people yourself included, have forgotten that some of us are just learning.  Some of us have been given a hard time just because we asked a question.  

I myself have been chewed out over a topic in the past. That was the main reason that I moved away from SME in the first place.  As windows 2003 SBS was the operating system i went to, I had more hassles and problems than SME.  So I'm back.

Whilst I appreciate what you do for Contribs.Org, PLEASE everyone, remember that not all of us know the answers or the fixes.  Some of us are learning and finding it tough going learning different apsect of SME and linux.

PLease be patient and tollerant.  You was a beginner once too.

Adrian

[raem]

teviot

I don't believe I said anything that indicated I was impatient and intolerant. I also did not give you a hard time.

I suggested you to try installing the rpm and see what happened, and advise the author accordingly.
Do you expect someone else to do that for you.
If everyone did that then no rpms would get improved or updated as no one would be testing them.

I never suggested that you test rpms on a production server.
I don't believe it's that hard not to have a test server either. I just installed sme 7 RC2 on a Pentium 166 with 64Mb RAM, and that's a live server at my home. You could get one of those for free from the local PC shop or a friend.

It seems that you are a bit touchy about not getting the answer you wanted. People volunteer their advice here, it's not a right that every poster has to expect an answer, although of course that's desirable.

I was just suggesting to you, as no one else had answered you, that sometimes you have to be proactive and take on the challenge to do something towards getting what you want done. I understand that many of us cannot create rpms etc, but we can certainly test them and advise the author of any problems and error messages etc.

Yes you will need a test server for that in order to do so safely.

I assume that as you have been able to get a sme server setup and do read these forums, that you would be aware of how to install and uninstall rpms. The whole process is pretty easy.

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

rpm -e rpmname (without the numbers etc).


> You was a beginner once too.

That's why I made the suggestion, as I thought you may not have realised to do that.

[Teviot]

Ray

I know that it was pointed at you, but it wasn't directed at you.  I would like to continue or finish this with you privately as my frustrations aren't directly related on contribs.org

Adrian

[Bierken]

teviot,

Searching the web/contribs is never bad.
This is what google found :
ftp://ftp.firewall-services.com/smeserver-proxypass-0.0.2-1.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.firewall-services.com/smeserver-proxypass-0.0.2-1.src.rpm

Seems that the peeps @firewall-services have already added SME 7.0 support in their updated proxypass

I advice you to read following : http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Beginners%20Guide%20to%20Rolling%20Your%20Own%20RPMs.
Just remember that the configurations files have changed from /home/e-smith/ to /home/e-smith/db/
I followed the howto and it works like a charm

[CharlieBrady]

I would like to continue or finish this with you privately as my frustrations aren't directly related on contribs.org

Please read:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html

[Teviot]

teviot wrote:
I would like to continue or finish this with you privately as my frustrations aren't directly related on contribs.org
 

People could take offence at what i might say.  I have seen it and experienced it HERE on contribs.org

[raem]

To Charllie & teviot

Thanks for that Charlie, and I agree with it wholeheartedly.

To teviot

I would suggest then, that you don't say things that could be construed to be offensive.
Be factual & accurate in questions you ask or statements you make.
Even if you have a gripe, you have no right to "take it out" on people involved with these forums & sme server generally.
Everyone here contribs answers & time voluntarily.
Most of us do not know each other personally & we therefore have no right to criticise.
Many of the people who contrib time & effort FREELY, are professional IT people, and to get use of their time normally would cost you hundreds of dollars.

I don't recall the "conversations" you made which people thought were "offensive", but perhaps you need to listen better to what they have to say, and don't be over reactive.
After all, the written word (particularly english) can be easily misconstrued, there are many people here who speak different languages and interpret word meaning slightly differently.

Try to post your questions & answers without involving emotion, without being in a hurry, and without criticising others. I believe you will get better feedback then.

[christian]

I tried rather blindly the suggestion below. really quite silly but what the heck. After installing on 6.1, httpd died.

tracking it down, I noticed the rpm added the following two lines to httpd.conf:
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so

However neither of these files exist in the modules dir.

I've commented them out for now so as to have httpd running again. Are these modules needed for proxypass? if so where are they (R7?).

-C

teviot,

Searching the web/contribs is never bad.
This is what google found :
ftp://ftp.firewall-services.com/smeserver-proxypass-0.0.2-1.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.firewall-services.com/smeserver-proxypass-0.0.2-1.src.rpm

Seems that the peeps @firewall-services have already added SME 7.0 support in their updated proxypass

I advice you to read following : http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Beginners%20Guide%20to%20Rolling%20Your%20Own%20RPMs.
Just remember that the configurations files have changed from /home/e-smith/ to /home/e-smith/db/
I followed the howto and it works like a charm

[CharlieBrady]

tracking it down, I noticed the rpm added the following two lines to httpd.conf:
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so

Problems with contribs should be reported in the appropriate section of the Bug Tracker, where both other users and the developer can find them.

[christian]

Problems with contribs should be reported in the appropriate section of the Bug Tracker, where both other users and the developer can find them.

Done. But the only appropriate category I could find was "Unknown"

[MSmith]

teviot:  just for laughs I searched your posts and found the thread I believe is the root of your unhappiness:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=25592.0

Actually, I think many people were quite patient with you.  RequestedDeletion shouted back at you, but you shouted first!