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Title: Sme server certifcate
Post by: fastautomation on September 01, 2009, 05:50:10 PM

Hi,

Could some one please help me urgently, It tried to follow the instructions on the website below so that I could get funambol to work.

http://wiki.contribs.org/Custom_CA_Certificate

Now I can't get into the server-manager through a web browser or through terminal, I get access denied.

And on top of it all funambol still doesn't work.

I need to get both working so any advice would be great.

I am a newbie so hope I haven't messed things up to badly.

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: Jáder on September 02, 2009, 01:46:43 PM

do you restart your server after follow directions ?

I had same problem last time I follow instructions because choose to skip restart! BAD choice!
I suggest you:

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signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

edit: PLEASE follow snoble instructions: mine were WRONG and I update them!

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: stephen noble on September 05, 2009, 12:47:25 AM

I suggest you:

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signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot


Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: fastautomation on September 11, 2009, 02:28:26 PM

Thanks for the rplies,

I have ran those two commands but still no success.

I have tried everything, is there anyway of reversing what I did?

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: janet on September 11, 2009, 04:01:59 PM

fastautomation

Do the following to regenerate default self signed certificate
(replace the filenames with the correct file/key names applicable to your server.)
rm /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/servername.domain.com.crt
rm /home/e-smith/ssl.key/servername.domain.com.key
rm /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/servername.domain.com.pem
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot
from
http://wiki.contribs.org/Certificates_Concepts#Expiration_time_of_the_self_signed_certificate

The Howto at
http://wiki.contribs.org/Custom_CA_Certificate
does work, but you do need to very carefully follow ALL instructions step by step.

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: fastautomation on September 11, 2009, 05:45:45 PM

Thanks for the help.

Sorry to be such a pain though but my linux knowledge really isn't that great.

If you could please explain step by step I would be truly grateful.

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: janet on September 11, 2009, 08:46:20 PM

fastautomation

Do the following steps to regenerate the default self signed certificate

login to Linux command prompt as user root
issue the following commands one by one

mv /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/* /tmp
mv /home/e-smith/ssl.key/* /tmp
mv /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/* /tmp
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

PS If your knowledge & skill is so poor that you were unable to follow the instructions given in my previous post, then you should not be doing it yourself. Please pay a consultant to do it for you, and also to configure Funambool & the CA Certificate Howtos, as those will be much more difficult.

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: fastautomation on September 12, 2009, 11:50:31 AM

Thanks so much for the help Mary, the whole idea of me asking for help and doing it myself is to learn. This server is my company server and not a clients so I don't mind a little trial and error.

I really appreciate the help as I am a keen learner of linux, I'm getting tired of the costs and quality of  the Microsoft OS

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Sme server certifcate
Post by: janet on September 12, 2009, 01:42:38 PM

fastautomation

Quote

This server is my company server and not a clients so I don't mind a little trial and error.

As long as your errors do not break your server.
You would be better off getting any old computer and installing a test version of sme on it, and learning by trial and error on the test server.
When you get the procedure correct, then apply it to the live server.