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[Teardrop]

hi

as promised here my experience with the new overlay:

- no problems with install
- on the webfrontend still have subdirs (horde, otrs) with no content. anyone a hint how to install horde? tried the web-apps/horde. no success atm but i have no clue where to start so the problem lies with me ^^
- have problem creating a user, always ends with LDAP_ERROR: can create object blablabla : syntax error. any clues on that?
- apache still starts with the vhosts at the wrong place, had to change a vhost config file from /var/www/fqdn/htdocs/www to /var/www/kolab/htdocs/server

would love to stay with gentoo and kolab so if i can help in any way to debbug this. please let me know.

thank you.

Teardrop

[Gunnar Wrobel]

- on the webfrontend still have subdirs (horde, otrs) with no content. anyone a hint how to install horde? tried the web-apps/horde. no success atm but i have no clue where to start so the problem lies with me

So far there are no horde ebuilds specific for the kolab installation. I believe that you can use the web-apps/horde ebuilds and install them into /var/www/kolab/htdocs/horde using webapp-config

Code:

webapp-config -I -h kolab -d /horde horde-xyz version

Horde is not yet fully compatible with kolab and there are still problems. So you should definitely know how to handle horde if you want to use it. That is also the reason why I don't provide ebuilds for it at the moment. I hope to get a little bit more into horde soon and send some patches upstream. But not yet my highest priority on the project.

I did get reports that people successfully installed it though. Instructions welcome

What is the path of the empty otrs directory? Did you install the app using webapp-config as instructed by the ebuild?

- have problem creating a user, always ends with LDAP_ERROR: can create object blablabla : syntax error. any clues on that?

I would need more information to debug this. You are speaking about the webadmin frontend here? What is the exact error? Any indication of the lines of code involved?

- apache still starts with the vhosts at the wrong place, had to change a vhost config file from /var/www/fqdn/htdocs/www to /var/www/kolab/htdocs/server

I'll have a look at the config files again. There are definitely still some problems that I need to fix, also when using the dav flag.

[Teardrop]

thanks for your reply, i didn't have the specific computer at hand yesterday. i will post you all the details this afternoon.

cu Teardrop

[Teardrop]

when i try webapp-config (i did that already) i only get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/webapp-config", line 44, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/webapp-config", line 41, in main
    config.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/WebappConfig/config.py", line 1022, in run
    ws.reportpackageavail()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/WebappConfig/db.py", line 708, in reportpackageavail
    available = self.packageavail()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/WebappConfig/db.py", line 684, in packageavail
    if not wrapper.package_installed('=' + self.package_name()):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/WebappConfig/wrapper.py", line 87, in package_installed
    if type(e[0]) == types.ListType:
NameError: global name 'types' is not defined

haven't found anything useful yet in the gentoo forums yet

ldap errors on webadmin-frontend when creating the very first user:

Warning: ldap_add() [function.ldap-add]: Add: Invalid syntax in /var/www/kolab/htdocs/admin/user/user.php on line 690

and

LDAP Error: could not add object cn=Thomas Luck,dc=luck,dc=dnsalias,dc=org: Invalid syntax

I am using php 5 (standard installation, nothing fancy) and i haven't found any more error in any logfile (if you know where they should show up please tell me)

haven't tried otrs and dav plugin yet.

thank you for helping out. if you need more, just tell me what and i will deliver ^^

cu Teardrop

[Gunnar Wrobel]

NameError: global name 'types' is not defined

haven't found anything useful yet in the gentoo forums yet

Bugzilla is your friend

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126534

I fixed that bug on webapp-config a while ago. Did you emerge --sync recently and update the tool? Should fix that problem.

Concerning the ldap error:

It's probably more likely that it is a problem of the ldap server than the webadmin frontend.

Can you try to run the following command in order to add a user from the command line:

Code:

/usr/lib/kolab/adduser

It will throw an error at you that says:

Code:

kolab:ERROR: no OpenPKG instance found under "/usr"

and you may not specify a quota for the user. I just tried this tool and saw it still needs some fixing.

But other than that  it should add the user. At least if the ldap server behaves as expected. Or do you get an error again?

[Teardrop]

'types' error:

strange. i have a up2date sync. i think i will force a re-emerge of webapp-config to see whats happening.

ldap error:

trying right now (have never specified a quota yet). i always keep to the basics on my first try.

will post the results son.

cu Teardrop

[Teardrop]

webapp-config:

version .14 is still masked, had to anmask it. now it works and i have the "missing config-files" from horde. i had that once, when i did everything by hand but i prefer a working app so i don't have to upgrade everthing myself all the time. gonna try to get those configs right.


ldap:

yes, i did what you suggest and the kolab:ERROR occured as you predicted. after that i press yes for procced and it told me:

ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN

so i suppose there is something wrong with my domain name? i tried a something.dnsalias.org and something.local because kolab shouldn't be a real mailserver in the internet. it should only get the mails from various accounts and present them (and calender and stuff like that) as an exchange server.

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Can you post your /etc/kolab/kolab.conf? Remove any sensitive information.

I do have no problems to run a kolab server on a local network that does not receive E-Mail from the outside. I do however have a fully functional DNS System so each machine has a clearly defined name. This might be causing problems in your case. But I would at least guess that setting the corresponding host names in /etc/hosts should be sufficient for the kolab server. Just don't enter any bogus hostnames. They should definitely resolve to something.

[Teardrop]

i installed everything form scratch again (the whole kolab and ldap stuff) now it suddenly works. but i don't know why i never did anything else. still the same DN, etc. Perhaps there was something wrong with the emerge. i know it was no typo because i safed the config files and used them again to test.

by the way the file with the wrong pathname for the kolab server ist /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/11_kolab_domain.conf . the path there is always /var/www/server.something.dnsalias.org/htdocs/www instead of /var/www/kolab/htdocs/server

thank you for everything. i will continue now setting up kolab. if i find an easy way to install horde i will write a little howto if that helps.

please keep up the good work and tell me if i can help you with it (testing, etc.)

cu Teardrop