Topic: [Announce] kPlaylist RPM for SME 7.x

[cool34000]

Hi all,

I've made an RPM based on kPlaylist.
All info on SME's Wiki


Best regards,
Sylvain

[zener]

This looks like a really cool app. I've downloaded it and installed as per the instructions but I can't get it to see any files other than those in the /opt/kplaylist/files directory.

I followed the instructions and edited the file to add /home/e-smith/files/ibays/music/files/ to the list of basedirs. I also added this to the basedir line in the web front end and in the list of dirs to search. I tried creating ln -s in the original basedir to link to the actual music dir but still no luck.

Also the only user that can access the samba share is the admin user - even other members of the admin group are refused access. Is this right ?

I'm obviously doing something wrong and I appreciate your work here but any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks

ZENER

[cool34000]

Hi,

I forgot to say on the Wiki that music files must be Apache readable (and writable if you want to edit files from kPlaylist editor)... I will update the Wiki ASAP.

About SAMBA, I only tested with admin account. I will look at it and try to make it work as detailled in the Wiki. Sorry for that mistake.


Sylvain

[zener]

Thanks for the swift reply.

I'm fairly new to linux systems, I can add users and groups and change ownership of files but how do I add a user to a folders permissions ? Again sorry for pestering you. 

ZEN

[cool34000]

Maybe group "shared" might do the job for you. Apache should be able to use this account, so do your users...
Don't have the time to test this right now. Please let me know of your success so that I can update the Wiki.

[zener]

Thanks again but I don't know how to achieve this. What command do I use to add the user apache to the group Shared ?

ZEN

[cool34000]

You don't need to!
Just change the group owner to "shared"

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# chgrp -R shared /path/to/music/root/folder

[zener]

No that doesn't do it either  .
In the Filehandling section I added the path to the music folder and also tried deleting the default path leaving only the music folder - it still won't see the files there. A symlink placed in the /opt/kplaylist/files directory, would that produce the same result ? I tried that before and it didn't but I hadn't changed the group that time.

I presume it's something peculiar about my setup here because the feedback on kplaylist is positive - hence why I chose it. I have a fresh install of SMEServer 7.1 with no mods except 3 addons - GroupOffice - DAR2 and DiskUsage, these installed without a hitch and work fine.

ZEN

[cool34000]

Yes, you can try a symlink.

[zener]

Didn't work . . .

I checked the httpd.conf file for the user and group that apache runs under and it seems to be user:www and group:www.
That user already has access to the music folder so I presume that means the web server has access to the files. If I ls -l in the music folder the files have the permissions : -rwxrw---- . That's not right is it ? Sould it be: -rwxrwx--- ?

At this stage I'm almost out of hair to pull mostly because of my own ignorance of the finer workings of *nix. I've been trying to make this work for almost a week now and have re-installed SME 4 times already with different configs but still no joy.

Thanks again for the replies by the way, I appreciate your patience.

ZEN

[cool34000]

Default rights on music files should be:
owner: root
grp owner : www (but you can use shared)
perms: -rwxrw----

You do not need 'x' for Apache (www). For testing purposes ONLY, you can try chmod 777 to see if it fix your problem...

[zener]

Yeah I tried chmod 777 -R earlier and it still wont find the files - even a symlink won't work. I can use the symlink from the command line i.e. cd symlink so I know it works.

What now ?? Should I just take up gardening maybe 

ZEN

[zener]

A friend of mine who uses SME Server 7.2 has also run into the same problems as me.
Any suggestions about where to start solving this one ?

ZEN

[cool34000]

Hi,

Can you paste here the content of your custom template please?
Could you also show your files and folders perms?

[zener]

I presume you mean the kplaylist template ?

This is one I found at :
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/98kplaylist

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#--------------------------------------------------------------
# kplaylist - Web based jukebox
#--------------------------------------------------------------
Alias /kplaylist /opt/kplaylist/html
{
    if (exists $kplaylist{'URL'})
      { $OUT .= "Alias  /$kplaylist{'URL'} /opt/kplaylist/html"; }
}

<Directory /opt/kplaylist/html>
{
    my $kplaylistsec = $kplaylist{'HTTPS'} || "off";
    if ($kplaylistsec eq "off")
      { $OUT .= "  # SSLRequireSSL on"; }
    else
      { $OUT .= "  SSLRequireSSL on"; }
}
  Options None
  Options +Indexes
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
{
    my $kplaylistpa = $kplaylist{'PublicAccess'} || "local";
    if ($kplaylistpa eq "local")
      { $OUT .= "  allow from $localAccess"; }
    else
      { $OUT .= "  allow from all"; }
}
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
  php_admin_value open_basedir /opt/kplaylist:/tmp:/usr/share/pear
  php_admin_value post_max_size { $kplaylist{MaxUpload} }
  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize { $kplaylist{MaxUpload} }
  php_value allow_url_fopen on
  php_value memory_limit 32M
</Directory>
#--------------------------------------------------------------

The contents of the Ibay where the music folder is are:

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/

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drwxr-xr-x  6 root root   4096 Oct 15 06:03 documents
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root   4096 Oct 15 06:03 jingles
drwxr-xr-x  6 root shared 4096 Oct 15 06:03 music
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root   4096 Oct 15 06:03 pre-recorded
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   4096 Nov 30 17:58 Primary

The contents of /opt/kplaylist/files/ :

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drwxrws--T  2 root www 20480 Nov 30 19:41 80's Number 1's

The above are just the current settings, they've changed over the course of testing using suggestions from various people familiar with *nix.

This is the kplaylist section of httpd.conf :

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#--------------------------------------------------------------
# kplaylist - Web based jukebox
#--------------------------------------------------------------
Alias /kplaylist /opt/kplaylist/html


<Directory /opt/kplaylist/html>
  # SSLRequireSSL on
  Options None
  Options +Indexes
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
  php_admin_value open_basedir /opt/kplaylist:/tmp:/usr/share/pear
  php_admin_value post_max_size 16M
  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 16M
  php_value allow_url_fopen on
  php_value memory_limit 32M
</Directory>
#--------------------------------------------------------------
Hope this is what you're looking for.

ZEN