As promised, I have finally created a quick howto for setting up iFolder. This is a really simple get your feet wet instruction set. It runs through the basics and includes SSL, but doesn’t show you how to set up LDAP of any kind. Someone else is going to help out with that howto. This should be posted to the iFolder community site in the next week or so as time permits.
If anyone has something to add/change please leave a comment!
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Steps to setting up iFolder
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- Boot image of choice
- Log in as root (password: ifolder, please change this 
- cd iFolder
- sh BuildSSL.sh
– Enter a pass phrase for server.key: (enter a pass phrase)
– Verify – Enter pass phrase for server.key: (verify the pass phrase)
– Enter pass phrase for server.key: (this is the pass phrase you just entered)
– Fillout information for certificate request (with your own data)
— Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]: US
— State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]: UT
— Lacality Name (eg, city) []: Provo
— Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgets Pty Ltd]: Novell
— Organizational Unit Name (eg, section)[]: SLED Accessibility
— Common Name (eg, YOUR name)[]: Stephen Shaw
— Email Address[]:sshaw{at}decriptor[dot]com
– A challenge password []: (I just hit enter, correct me)
– An optional companyname []: (I just hit enter, correct me)
– Enter pass phrase for server.key (this is the pass phrase from above)
– Enter pass phrase for server.key (the second time, this is the pass phrase from above)
That’s it for BuildSSL.sh
- Sh BuildiFolder.sh
- Server’s Data Path? [/var/simias/data]: (use default)
- Server Name? [Host1]: iFolder1 (up to you)
- SSL?[SSL]: (use default)
- Public URL? [http://ipaddress/simias10]: (use default)
- Private URL? [https://ipaddress/simias10]: (use default)
- Slave Server? [N]: (use default, unless it is a slave)
- System Name? [iFolder]: (use default)
- System Description? [iFolder Enterprise System]: (use what you want)
- Use Key Recovery Agent? [Y]: (use defaults if you want to be able to recovery forgotten pass phrases)
- Recovery Agent Certificate Path? [/var/simias/data]: (use default)
- Use LDAP? [Y]: N (for a simple setup we won’t use LDAP)
- System Admin? [admin]: (use default)
- System Admin Password? [novell]: (you will probably want to change this)
- Configure Apache? [N]: Y (make sure you do this)
- Web Alias? [/admin]: (use default)
- Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
- Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
- iFolder URL? [https://localhost:443/]: (use default)
- Redirect URL? []: (use default)
- Accept iFolder Server Certificate? [Y]: (use default)
- Web Alias? [/ifolder]: (use default)
- Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
- Require Server SSL? [Y]: (use default)
- iFolder URL? [https://localhost:443/]: (use default)
- Redirect URL? []: (use default)
- Accept iFolder Server Certificate? [Y]: (use default)
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Errata
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- delete the commented line out of /usr/lib/simias/webaccess/iFolders.aspx around line 84
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Testing the setup
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- goto https://ipaddress/admin (user: admin pass: novell, unless you changed it)
- You will very likely have to add an exception for the cert
- create a user
- Change the Home Server and don’t forget to hit save at the bottom
- goto https://ipaddress/ifolder (use the user you just created)
- login
- download the client and see if you can connect.
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Congrats, if you got this far then it should be working
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After I follow these steps and visit
https://ipaddress/admin
I get:
Service unavailable!
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
How come?
Hello,
Thank you. I followed this instruction. But cant login with default admin password.
Username:admin
password:novell
IT tells
The username or password you enterd is incorrect. Please log in.
Please help me
it should be admin and ifolder. It used to be novell and then I decided to just the name of the product.
Sadly I think its created more confusion.
Hi,
I downloaded this appliance and have been attempting to run it on a VirtualBox system but to no avail. I’m getting errors appearing in the apache2 log of the following:
(70014)End of file found: read_data failed
Command stream corrupted, last command was 1
These are repeating quite continually. Any attempts to log into the server through the web-interface (/admin) with the default password set (admin & novell) result in “The username or password you enterd is incorrect.”.
Simias log (/var/simias/data/simias/log) shows the following log every time I attempt to log in.
INFO Simias.Service.Manager – The database is being shutdown
Is this related to your appliance or is this (as is more likely) my own stupidity?
@Philip Peitsch I’m not really sure. I’d jump on irc (freenode, #ifolder) and ask in there.
I have the server and webaccess working well on my LAN. I use DynDNS as a way to connect to my virtual servers from outside my LAN. I have port forwarding setup correctly and the bridged network adapter setup correctly. how do I get connected to the ifolder webaccess from outside the LAN?
This is great!
But I have a issue, how do I save my settings incase I reboot the server? I seem to loose all of my settings on a reboot.
Any ideas? I’m not a linux guy too much so please be simple for me.
@Cliff I’m not sure why you are losing your settings each time you reboot. Can you be more specific as to which settings you are losing? If its your ip address its probably because its set to dhcp which means you are likely to pull a new one each time you reboot.
I’ve followed these instructions and I can login into the Administrator interface and was able to add myself as an iFolder user but when I try to go to https:/ipaddress/ifolder I get the following error: Object not found Error 404.
Any ideas? Sorry, but I am new to Linux. I know you are working on a new version based on iFolder 3.8 but I would like to get this working using the existing version if possible.
Update! I am now able to login into the web interface as myself so I’ve downloaded the iFolder client 3.7.2 for Windows from http://www.ifolder.com and installed it on a Windows XP Pro workstation but get the following error when launching it:
Server is old. Cannot connect to the server
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gary
@Gary That’s interesting. If anything I would have expected the opposite. The new client doesn’t work with the old server, but the appliance is using the new server packages. I don’t think that they have rev’ed the client since I created the appliance. Would you be able to create a vm with openSUSE 11.1 and install ifolder there and test. iFolder should be in the repositories so no searching and download of the client. If you need help with that just let me know. (software.opensuse.org)
@sshaw Yes, I can test this but let me make sure I’m clear on what you would like me to test. I’ll get openSUSE 11.1 (which I already have) installed on a vm and then I should install the iFolder 3.7.2 client and try to connect to your appliance that I’ve installed. Is this correct? Or do you want me to install the iFolder server onto the openSUSE vm and test connecting to it? Sorry, I just want to be clear on this.
Also, is there an older client for windows XP I can download to try?
Thanks,
Gary
After following these directions, everything worked great. However, after restarting the server, the iFolder client reports “Server unavailable”, and I am no longer able to open the https page. Going to http://ipaddress still loads the “Access forbidden!” page, and going to http://ipaddress/admin redirects to https://ipaddress/admin, where it finds it cannot connect to the server. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Eric
As a followup to my previous message. In case anyone else has a similar problem, it appears to have been caused by the vhost-ssl.conf file. Commenting out the existing directory related lines, and adding the following to the end, seems to fix the problem:
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
I am not an apache expert, so if doing this could potentially cause any problems, please post a reply
… any hints on how to get the wireless working during the initial start up sequence?
Hey, first…THANKS for this!
Second, I’m spreading my *nix wings a bit and am having some issues. I’ve followed this process twice now, and can’t seem to get the admin website to respond at all. Any attempt to go to http:// or https:// /admin (or other) results in a page-not-found.
* I can, however, ping the appliance just fine.
* Telnet to port 80 does not respond.
What’s the best way to troubleshoot?
Thanks!
AL
Regarding my above post:
So…I rebuilt the appliance again…and it worked fairly well…until I rebooted it. Now it’s the same situation, no response via web or other.
Any thoughts at all? Thanks!
AL
@Al Bsharah This might be that apache just needs to be restarted. rcapache2 start
Hey sshaw, thanks for the reply. That DID get Apache back up and running, but every time I reboot I have to run this command. How can I get Apache to automatically start during startup?
Also…I’ve been playing extensively and I’m getting REALLY poor throughput. For example, with the VM on the same host as my client – I never saw greater than 500kbps throughput (meaning it’s typically much slower!) It took a very long time just to upload a couple 8MB files…again, with the client and server on the same machine.
On my remote server, the client has been stuck in “Please wait while your iFolder account is connecting” for over an hour.
So, I’m wondering if I’m having VMWare Interface issues, or if there’s something in the build that can be fixed? I’ve tried the iFolder server on VMWare Server 2…once on a Win7 machine and the other is a 2003 Server. Both have the same slow network speed.
Any thoughts? Is there another place I should be posting these questions? Ha…
Thanks again!
AL
@Al Bsharah Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I’ll add the fix in the next appliance version I release. I’m hoping to update the appliance with ifolder 3.8.
Just run ‘chkconfig apache2 on’ (without the quotes) and that will make it so that apache loads everytime you boot.
As for the poor network throughput I’m not sure what’s going on there. There is an ifolder mailing list that you could ask on. http://www.ifolder.com should have the needed info.
I try to setup the openLDAP, en did try to follow the openldap tutorial on the ifolder.com website but it fails.
The problem is that I don’t know if the proxy user excist or that I have to create this user. To configure ldap with the certificates was no problem, that went fine.
Were do I find the proxy user, or can I create this user? Does this user be created on the ldap?
According to the manual this user should be created during installation proces…
Has somebody succesfull connected ldap to ifolder?
Tnx,
Steven
FYI to all – I’m hearing on the iFolder mailing lists (after posting questions as to why things aren’t working) that there’s a bug with NON-LDAP configurations. Such a bug that won’t allow you to connect to the server over a firewall (but it seems to work over a LAN).
@sshaw,
Thank you very much for this awesome appliance.
I installed this on my vmware and got the admin page, created an user too. But when i set the Home Server to ifolder from the drop down and save, I am getting an error.
Server Version: 1.8.2.0
HostName: har200
MachineName: har200
OS Version: Unix 2.6.27.29
CLR Version: 2.0.50727.1433
Exception detail:
Exception type: ConnectFailure
Error: ConnectFailure
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000]
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream () [0x00000]
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke (System.String method_name, System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000]
Could you please help me to fix this?
Many thanks,
Ambarish
@sshaw,
Please ignore my previous post.
I managed to set it up properly.
Just reinstalled it once again, and this time carefully followed the steps you mentioned and its all up and running.
Thanks once again and its really a great share.
Helloo!
I got most of the way thru the setup but it failed at “Installing certificate…Failed”
Any idea what I am missing?
@Gregory can you put the input in something like paste2.org and post the link here? That doesn’t really give enough information to troubleshoot it.
Sorry . .. weht thru the scripts a third time and it worked after deleting the stuff in the ‘data’ folder.
Different question:
I attached to the server “https://ifolder.studio478.com/admin/”
or
“https://192.168.2.130/admin/”
but get:
The username or password you enterd is incorrect. Please log in.
double checked the password but still no dice . . .
any ideas?
Hi sshaw, This indeed is a great start. Could you educate me about one configuration. ie:
ie we used http://ipaddress/simias10 for public and private URL’s where as for setting up /ifolder and /admin aliases we used http://localhost:80/ as URL. Can you please explain this difference.
Regards,
UdayKiran.
Hey! For some reason the xen DomU is not starting up…
First error I get when running xm create is:
Error: No kernel specified
Then if you specify a kernel line in the config file this gets resolved. I added:
kernel = “/home/ac3bf1/vmlinuz-2.6.16-xenU”
Gets me one step forwarded, but I get the following error:
[...]
Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
VFS: Cannot open root device “xvda1″ or unknown-block(2,0)
Please append a correct “root=” boot option
Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
So I changed more stuff and go this:
Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
VFS: Cannot open root device “xvda” or unknown-block(2,0)
Please append a correct “root=” boot option
Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
Should the device be xvda, or xvda1?
and what else is needed to get this booting on xen?
thanks and P.S. great work!
Would be good to see a debian release of iFolder
How can I change the location where the data is stored. I would like to add another drive to the appliance so that I can store the datat there.
Thanks,
Do you have any plans when you can finish the next version of your VM using iFolder 3.8?
I tried to install 3.8 in a fresh installed SuSe 11.2 VM by myself, but I can’t get it running…