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[SOLVED] SoftEther VPN Installed but ...
Did I Really Try That?:
Please forgive a Windows refugee asking stupid.
I followed Oliver Beeckmans' HOWTO as far as completing 4.5. I have not attempted 4.6 or later. I have an unexpected problem or two. I am running SME 8.2 because it works for me, and I have no truck with the "constant upgrade" business model of Microsoft and others. SME Server appears to be running most services OK
Problem 1: I now cannot use any web access to SME. Using verious browsers it seems that SoftEther has either a) interefered with the certificate used by Apache*, or b) has stopped Apache and is answering https calls itself. Either way no connection to the control pages, webmail etc. Using Putty for an admin connection and attempting to use ELinks gives a similar response: nothing here for you! Any thoughts on how I should rescue would be very welcome, please.
* And substituted one for vpn??????.softether.net
Problem 2: From the above, I wish to stop the Dynamic DNS function. I press the button and it tells me to get my hands dirty and edit the conf file. No problem in theory, but where is it? I am unfamiliar with the operation of switches for the LS command, could someone give me a nudge in the right direction, please? [DIR on the other hand ...]
Many thanks.
guest22:
Hi and welcome!
--- Quote from: Did I Really Try That? on February 26, 2017, 04:29:56 PM ---I am running SME 8.2 because it works for me, and I have no truck with the "constant upgrade" business model of Microsoft and others. SME Server appears to be running most services OK
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SME Sever 8.2 is virtually EOL and will no longer supported. Please upgrade or start you journey with SME Server 9.x which will be supported for the next decade.
--- Quote ---Problem 1: I now cannot use any web access to SME. Using verious browsers it seems that SoftEther has either a) interefered with the certificate used by Apache*, or b) has stopped Apache and is answering https calls itself. Either way no connection to the control pages, webmail etc. Using Putty for an admin connection and attempting to use ELinks gives a similar response: nothing here for you! Any thoughts on how I should rescue would be very welcome, please.
* And substituted one for vpn??????.softether.net
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What do the log files tell you? Is apache running?
--- Quote ---Problem 2: From the above, I wish to stop the Dynamic DNS function. I press the button and it tells me to get my hands dirty and edit the conf file. No problem in theory, but where is it? I am unfamiliar with the operation of switches for the LS command, could someone give me a nudge in the right direction, please? [DIR on the other hand ...]
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Which button? What is telling you this?
Did I Really Try That?:
--- Quote from: guest22 on February 26, 2017, 09:08:34 PM ---
What do the log files tell you? Is apache running?
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I can only get to the log files with Nano or similar. Which ones should I be looking for, and where are they? Please give me the directory structure to reach them. From the responses that I get, I doubt that Apache is running.
--- Quote from: guest22 on February 26, 2017, 09:08:34 PM ---
Which button? What is telling you this?
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The button on the Dynamic DNS screen of the SoftEther Connection Control page. The bold title is Manage VPN Server "myserver.domain"
guest22:
--- Quote from: Did I Really Try That? on February 26, 2017, 10:09:07 PM ---I can only get to the log files with Nano or similar. Which ones should I be looking for, and where are they? Please give me the directory structure to reach them. From the responses that I get, I doubt that Apache is running.
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service httpd-e-smith status
log files:
/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/messages
Did I Really Try That?:
--- Quote from: guest22 on February 26, 2017, 10:11:19 PM ---service httpd-e-smith status
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# service httpd-e-smith status
down: /service/httpd-e-smith: 1s, want up
I have re-booted the machine a couple of times in the forlorn hope that it would restart.
--- Quote from: guest22 on February 26, 2017, 10:11:19 PM ---log files:
/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/messages
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/var/log/httpd/error_log is quite repetitive! All the lines below have identical date and time, down to the second. Below is one iteration.
[notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[notice] Digest: done
[notice] SSL FIPS mode disabled
[warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `server4.equalfirst.local' does NOT match server n$ [#this and previous line repeated twice]
[warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: dotco:443 (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:729) vs. equalfi$
[warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: equalfirst.local:443 (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:597) $
[warn] Init: You should not use name-based virtual hosts in conjunction with SSL!!
[notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[error] [client 192.168.1.102] (20014)Internal error: proxy: error reading status line from remo$
[error] [client 192.168.1.102] proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by /server-manag$
/var/log/messages has a lot that is OK so all the references to FTP access have been removed.
Towards the end of the log of a reboot there is:
... ...
Feb 26 13:59:22 server4 kernel: tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
Feb 26 13:59:22 server4 kernel: tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Feb 26 13:59:23 server4 smbd[3183]: [2017/02/26 13:59:23.889186, 0] smbd/server.c:1128(main)
Feb 26 13:59:23 server4 smbd[3183]: standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
Feb 26 13:59:26 server4 esmith::event[3332]: Processing event: local
Feb 26 13:59:26 server4 esmith::event[3332]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/generic_template_expand
Feb 26 13:59:26 server4 esmith::event[3332]: expanding /boot/grub/grub.conf
Feb 26 13:59:26 server4 proftpd[3254]: 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.12[192.168.1.12]) - Preparing to chroot to directory '/home/e$
Feb 26 13:59:27 server4 esmith::event[3332]: expanding /etc/sysconfig/kernel
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 esmith::event[3332]: generic_template_expand=action|Event|local|Action|generic_template_expand|Star$
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 esmith::event[3332]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/local/S50clear-pptp-interfaces
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 /sbin/e-smith/db[3340]: /home/e-smith/db/configuration: OLD pptpd=service|Interfaces||TCPPort|1723|$
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 /sbin/e-smith/db[3340]: /home/e-smith/db/configuration: NEW pptpd=service|TCPPort|1723|access|publi$
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 esmith::event[3332]: S50clear-pptp-interfaces=action|Event|local|Action|S50clear-pptp-interfaces|St$
Feb 26 13:59:28 server4 esmith::event[3332]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services
Feb 26 13:59:29 server4 esmith::event[3332]: adjusting supervised yum (once)
Feb 26 13:59:29 server4 esmith::event[3332]: adjust-services=action|Event|local|Action|adjust-services|Start|1488117568 823$
I hope that is sufficient for starters.
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