Topic: nOOb asks for help !!!

[Prezes]

With my experience in PHP/MySQL/HTML programming (& Windows user [I know, I know, it's really shameful]), server administations is black magic to me, so....

I tried to install a number of Linux based OS systems with no success, and I came across Linux Format magazine in my local Newsagents (I guess everyone knowns where I'm going with this).

I installed SME-Server 5.6 on my system with no problems, however I've started to experienc problems with boot up. When it gets to reading the data of the HDD, the systems crashes. I see the normal list of devices and then just :-

L_

Where I should see " Lilo " and the rest of the start up procedure should be. I have to have my boot up floppy in and boot from than into the system. Does anyone know whats wrong??? (Please speak in plain 'english' as I've just stared to lear Linux).

Number two; the thread ibays vs ftp covers one of my issues, but when I search dungog.net for chroot I get 480 results on text formating and setting up polls... What should I do ???

Issue number 3, the thread MySQL ID and Password is what I'm having problems with. Hwo is this done ????

Query 4, how do I set up my server to handle redirects from other domains (hosted elsewhere) to redirect them differentVirtual Domains on my server???
ie:-
  www.site1.com/folder1/ -> myVirtualDomain1
  www.site1.com/folder2/ -> myVirtualDomain2

  www.site2.com/folder1/ -> myVirtualDomain1
  www.site2.com/folder2/ -> myVirtualDomain2



Any help would be very much appriciated.

I've looked through the support documents, but as I don't really know what I'm looking for, I have not been really successful

My current source of info is mitel.com & this site, any ideas as to where else I should look???

Thanks again.

[Dan Brown]

Well, I can address question 3:

http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/mysql-password-howto.html

[Bill Talcott]

Prezes wrote:
>
> I installed SME-Server 5.6 on my system with no problems,
> however I've started to experienc problems with boot up. When
> it gets to reading the data of the HDD, the systems crashes.
> I see the normal list of devices and then just :-
>
> L_
>
> Where I should see " Lilo " and the rest of the start up
> procedure should be. I have to have my boot up floppy in and
> boot from than into the system. Does anyone know whats
> wrong??? (Please speak in plain 'english' as I've just stared
> to lear Linux).

I've seen this before, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Master/slave or BIOS stuff maybe? I know people have posted about it only getting partially through "LILO" and stopping, but I've never really paid attention to the cause. You should be able to search for it, though I'm not sure what term(s) to use. Maybe "LI_" or "L_"...

> Number two; the thread > href="http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7490.msg27500#msg27500">ibays vs ftp covers one of my issues, but when I search dungog.net for chroot I get 480 results on text formating and setting up polls... What should I do ???

Don't search, just download the file. http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/index.php

> My current source of info is mitel.com & this site, any ideas
> as to where else I should look???

contribs.org is handy too. There used to be a list of users' SME sites, but that got taken down when contribs.org came up. After a while you'll get used to seeing the major contributors' URLs...

[Prezes]

Thanks,

I logged into my 'text based console' (as I don't know whats it's called) and did all my MySQL things..

[Prezes]

With respect to chroot, I've also found some problems

I can't find the "update system link in the server manager" link is SME 5.6
am I blind? where is it????

When I type : "rpm -Uvh dungog-proftpd-chroot-0.1-?.noarch.rpm" nothing happens it simply shows the next line; "[root@myserver.com]# ".

I've put the dungog-proftpd-chroot-0.1-?.noarch.rpm file in my "admin" folder (which is a user account), in the Primary/files/ folder as well....

Please help this nOOb....

[Prezes]

I've mamanged to rpm in the console (found a howTo @ contribs.org by Bill Talcott)

But there still is no "update system link in the server manager" link to be seen....

But,
How do I set up my server to handle redirects from other domains (hosted elsewhere) to redirect them differentVirtual Domains on my server???
ie:-
www.site1.com/folder1/ -> myVirtualDomain1
www.site1.com/folder2/ -> myVirtualDomain2

www.site2.com/folder1/ -> myVirtualDomain1
www.site2.com/folder2/ -> myVirtualDomain2

both site1.com & site2 are running on RedHat/Apache....

[Ray Mitchell]

You can instal rpm packages using the rpm command manually from the command line.
login as root on your server using the admin password

assuming you have copied the package you want to instal to the admin home folder, then cd to the admin home folder and then run the rpm -Uvh command
ie
cd /home/e-smith/files/users/admin/home
ls
(to show a list of the contents of the folder)
rpm -Uvh rpmname (of the rpm to be installed)

If you have a number of rpms in the same folder, you can instal them all at the same time by doing

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

you can also do
mc
and this will run a nice file manager (midnight commander) to help you get around in your server. (This is mentioned in the manuals)

If you want to use the update system panel, you have to instal an additional rpm to get that functionality in the server manager. It is available from dungog.net I believe. Have a look there at the GPL downloads.

Hope that points you in the right direction
Regards
Ray

[stephen noble]

>With respect to chroot, I've also found some problems

>I can't find the "update system link in the server manager" link is SME 5.6
>am I blind? where is it????

in a different rpm ??
chroot has 'FTP user root'

>When I type : "rpm -Uvh dungog-proftpd-chroot-0.1-?.noarch.rpm" nothing happens it >simply shows the next line; "[root@myserver.com]# ".

lol, replace the ? with the latest version number

try the new smehelp.chm file at dungog.net/sme/help.php
it puts all our documentation on your desktop Much faster than browsing

regards
stephen