Re: [Phpgroupware-users] problem getting phpwebhosting to work properly

[Dave Hall]

SI Reasoning <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Saturday 26 October 2002 7:30 am, Dave Hall wrote:
> > SI Reasoning <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I worked with Dave on IRC and made some progress but also ran
> > > across some
> > > issues:
> > >
> > > it requires a specific domain name created in configuration setup.
> > > This resolved the problem I mentioned here (although there are
> > > still many
> > > problems we have not resolved yet...later in this email...)
> > > Having to choose a domain name causes us some problems here. 
> If we
> > > choose the
> > > domain name of the local server it works fine on the local lan but
> > > refuses
> > > entry remotely (where we have a firewall/nat setup with port 80
> > > forwarded).If we use the internet ip address, then it will not
> > > work locally (some
> > > weirdness when a local computer is sent through the nat, and then
> > > back into
> > > the nat and then forwarded. It doesn't work in many situations,
> > > including
> > > this one.
> >
> > I was thinking about this a bit more.  Have you tried running 
> the server
> > on another port? like 8080 or 8008??
> 
> I don't know how this would resolve the issue, since it has more 
> to do with ip 
> address than ports.

Ok just an idea.  I would still suggest you register a domain name, port
forward 80, then chose some crazy subdomain that apache listens for and
then it will work both ways.

> 
> >  Secondly do you have allow direct
> > access if availble ticked on in phpwebhosting??
> >

sorry it is a preference option.  View documents on server (if
available)    tick that on and see if it available

> 
> Where would I find this? I do not have a phpwebhosting section in 
> administration
> 
> > > other issues:
> > > we tried going to manage apps and uninstall/reinstall but it did
> > > not fix the
> > > following issues:
> >
> > This was a suggestion of mine to try to clean out the data in the
> > phpgw_vfs table.
> >
> > > At one time I had deleted the /home/user1 directory, however phpwh
> > > did not
> > > acknowledge that deletion. This meant that everytime (even after
> > > uninstall/install) it kept defaulting back to the original (and
> > > now ddeleted)
> > > directory. I had to recreate it and it worked fine.
> >
> > Another idea would be to try the following:
> >
> > 1 BACK UP YOUR DB
> > 2 Run this DELETE FROM phpgw_vfs WHERE app = 'phpwebhosting';
> > 3 Delete all the directories in /path/to/phpgw/files/home
> > 4 login again
> >
> > If it fails ... you wasted 5 mins and just restore your db ... 
> if not
> > problem solved.  This should also recreate the home/groupname 
> dirs for
> > you too.
> 
> I will try this later tonight
> 
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