[Gllug] Open-Xchange virtual appliance on Ubuntu

[Jason Johns]

Thanks Simon

I haven't had much time to work on this one, but I'm going to give it
a shot today..

Wish me luck!

jason

On 30/10/06, Simon Morris <sm at fsfe.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:05 +0000, Jason Johns wrote:
> > Good morning and welcome to Monday!
> >
> > I'm trying to get Open-Xchange's virtual appliance running on a laptop
> > running Ubuntu. It starts ok, and i can log in via the shell, but I
> > have no idea how to get into the web frontend.
>
> I know nothing about Open-XChange but we can check some basic things
> that may help....
> >
> > I thought entering the IP returned by ifconfig into my browser would
> > do the trick but... no luck.
>
> Does networking in your virtual machine work at all? Can you ping from
> the virtual machine to your real machine... are packets going anywhere
> at all?
>
> Is the web server ( I think tomcat for open-xchange ) listening on any
> port? As root on your virtual machine run:
>
> netstat -nap | less
>
> and page up and down looking to see if there are any processes that look
> like your web server. Which port is it running on?
>
> Is the Ubuntu firewall stopping things? try running
>
> /etc/init.d/iptables stop
>
> and attempt to connect
>
> >
> > Interestingly, the keyboard works differently in the Open-xchange
> > shell. pressing the '-' button produces the beta symbol. Could this be
> > to do with the fact that Open-xchange assumes a German keyboard?
> >
> Yep, it probably is.
>
> Have a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see which keyboard layout you are
> using.
>
> Mine is:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver       "kbd"
>   Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
>   Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
>   Option       "XkbLayout" "gb"
>   Option       "XkbModel" "pc105"
>   Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> EndSection
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> ~sm
>
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