I just sent this to Reuben. I have done some digging through the log file and haven't seen anything useful. Do I perhaps need to set the ejabberd.cfg file to 5:debug instead of 4:Verbose? i remember seeing something about that inside it.<div>
<br></div><div>Unfortunately, we we haven't set up a GUI, web browser, or emailing capabilities of any kind on the server itself so emailing the log file will be a roadblock for me. I haven't worked in linux for about 5 years now until trying to tackle this project. I'm relearning how to do basic things like ls, pipe to less, and use vi for simple text edits. Setting that stuff up is likely to take a loooong time. Is there anything specific I can do offline to find what you're hoping for inside. In writing you this email I just recalled the existence of grep. is there something I could grep for in the log file and give you some feedback on it? </div>
<div><br></div><div>On the subject of following instructions, there have been two of us working on the server, sometimes one at a time so I can't <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">guarantee</span> that we've followed them to a T, but we both believe that we have. We've gone so far as to rerun the initial scripts, recheck hostname, reset the acl lines in ejabberd.cfg repeatedly, connect to the jabber server with 2 different jabber clients (which has been successful, we've chatted back and forth using our server. We just can't access the admin inteface at <a href="http://192.168.0.162:5280/admin">http://192.168.0.162:5280/admin</a>, we keep getting 401 unauthorized), read every wiki page that sounded remotely relevant, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And we've been following hunches at each step so we have pulled some of the instructions out of related pages from the wiki.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been careful to comment out all of the original lines in the ejabberd.cfg file and mark all of my changes for easy resetting of each segment to it's original state. Which I've since done. So theoretically, the file should be in it's original state except for the {acl, admin {... line that we added to give admin privs to our sample user. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But of course, I could have made missed something. However, the server is still working fine when we connect via 3rd party clients (pidgin pis), so I don't think I've done anything critical...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know if I should grep anything out of the log file for you.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help!</div><div>-Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Bennett</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dantana@gmail.com">dantana@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:57 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Hoping for assistance with XS 0.5 configuration difficulties (ejabberd)<br>
To: "Reuben K. Caron" <<a href="mailto:reuben@laptop.org">reuben@laptop.org</a>><br>Cc: Michael Ishaku <<a href="mailto:michaelishaku@gmail.com">michaelishaku@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>Reuben,<div><br>
</div><div>Thank you for the quick reply and the hints. I've cc'd Michael Ishaku on this thread. He's and I have been working on this issue together and he is going to be administering the server once I head back to the states.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've replied to your statements inline below to the best of my ability. Please take a look.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote>On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Reuben K. Caron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reuben@laptop.org" target="_blank">reuben@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Daniel,<br>
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I am sorry to hear about all your difficulties. I'd like to work with you to get this to work.<br>
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If you cannot enter the ejabberd web interface to setup the online group then XOs will not collaborate.<br>
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I'd like to know about your hardware, 2 nics or 1?</blockquote></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">We have one LAN card for ethernet, but have also installed a wireless networking card for communication with Access Points. That should work, right? I'm really no IT professional... :)</span> </div>
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I'm sure you have read through this but please be sure to follow this line by line:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Initial_Configuration" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Initial_Configuration</a><br>
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One particular point I'd like to make in the instructions is this:<br>
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--->Set the hostname of the machine like this (until we fix bug 8983) by editing /etc/sysconfig/network to set HOSTNAME=<a href="http://schoolserver.example.org" target="_blank">schoolserver.example.org</a><br></blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">contents of /etc/sysconfig/network:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">NETWORKING=yes</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">HOSTNAME=<a href="http://schoolserver.lccnyola.org" target="_blank">schoolserver.lccnyola.org</a> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">~</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">~</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">"/etc/sysconfig/network" 2L, 50C</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-->and restarting.</blockquote><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">We had this problem yesterday when we left, and when i arrived this morning I had to turn the server back on (it had powered off overnight due to the generator being shut down and the UPS running out of juice). I'm fairly certain that we tried rebooting a couple of times during the day yesterday as well. I'm certain that we used the command shell to: service ejabberd restart many many times both days. This would cover the restarting, right?</span> </div>
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It is important to restart before moving on; otherwise, the ejabberd db will be intialized using the wrong domain.<br>
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Is the bandwidth too limited to download the new 0.5.2 ISO? If yes, I'd recommend a fresh install, connect to internet, and then after install run: yum update. After an up to date install run through the setup steps.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">I left the states on 3/23/09. I believe that 0.5.2 was released on 3/18/09. This is the file name for the image I brought with me (and that we are currently running: OLPC-School-Server-0.5.2-i386.iso</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">we could probably download a fresh image with 12/24 hours if it were really critical, but I'd like to avoid that much waiting around if possible.</span></div><div class="im">
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It appears you have dived into the ejabberd.conf file. Good for you! But I'd like to note you shouldn't have to perform this. The linked directions have worked for me on many installs on much different hardware.<br>
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Does the XS have a public IP address?</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">Michael works in the building where we are temporarily housing the XS and when i asked him if it would be possible for me to access it remotely he said that unfortunately the entire building is a sub-network of some kind that is managed by University staff from a separate location. We've plugged our hardware into the LAN port here and it's found a local IP address of 192.168.0.162. That's how we've been accessing the <a href="http://192.168.0.162:5280/admin" target="_blank">http://192.168.0.162:5280/admin</a> interface. Or, failing to access it depending upon your take on the situation.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">That all means no public IP address, right?</span></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Let's get this working :-)<br></blockquote><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">Please, let's! I'll probably head for dinner sometime relatively soon, but come back and check mail an hour or so later if you have a chance to reply.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">Thanks again for the help!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">-Dan </span></div><div class="im">
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Reuben<br>
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Daniel Bennett wrote:<br>
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Hi all, <br>
I am working on an unofficial 100 XO pilot project in Jimeta, Nigeria until the end of the month and I've run into a wall configuring the school server. I outlined it on IRC before bringing it here. Because of the time difference and inconsistent internet connection, email is probably a better medium for assistance.<br>
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I hope that someone can help. I really need to move through this issue as quickly as possible if we're going to have a working school server at this deployment before Ieave town next Saturday morning. There is much left to do besides tackling the XS. <br>
Thanks!<br>
-Dan<br>
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dbennetthi all, I'm working on a deployment in Nigeria this afternoon and we are having a tough time getting the XS jabber server web admin interface to work16:05dbennettwe have managed to get it to prompt for a user/pass combo which seems to require user@node.domain which in my case is dan@schoolserver.lccnyola.org16:06dbennettif we get any part of that or the password in correct, it just empties both fields of the prompt and waits for new info. However, if we enter user@fqdn as I showed above and enter the correct password then it accepts our input and the prompt disappears. However, all it returns is a "401 Unauthorized" page16:11dbennettWe've added the: {acl admin {user, "dan", "<a href="http://schoolserver.lccnyola.org" target="_blank">schoolserver.lccnyola.org</a> <<a href="http://schoolserver.lccnyola.org" target="_blank">http://schoolserver.lccnyola.org</a>>"}}. line to the access control list in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg16:11dbennettWe are running XS 0.516:13dbennettWe are able to connect to the server with multiple users via jabber clients like pidgin and psi. However, we can't seem to get admin rights to stick to any of the users. I also can't figure out if there are multiple types of admin rights (rights to <a href="http://server/admin/" target="_blank">http://server/admin/</a>) vs admin rights within a jabber client (show all online users, etc)16:18 *** jg joined #olpc-devel <<a href="http://www.mibbit.com/chat/#" target="_blank">http://www.mibbit.com/chat/#</a>>16:18dbennettIf anyone can lend any insight it would be much appreciated. This is my 3rd day working on this issue. I'm learning more bits about ejabberd, but i've only got a week left before coming back to the states and would like to have my local server admin running a working school server before I leave. 16:52dbennettIf you reply to this later in the day and I don't reply to your reply, PLEASE send your replies to the email based version of this request sent to <a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a>> as I have only infrequent internet access, and no ability to use an external IRC client from my present location. Thanks! -Dan<br>
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