[solved] Froxlor Installation

[trazx]

Hi,

 

I'm running latest nginx/php5-fpm and mysql..I'm running into a very frustrating issue with froxlor. I install it, it appears to install correctly and says 'click here to login' but once I click it, I am back where I started and the cycle repeats. It doesn't seem to acknowledge that it has been successfuly installed (even though it announces it..)

 

Very strange..

 

 

I've tried redownloading it a few times, but to no avail. Same issue.

It was downloaded via wget in terminal and extracted from there too..its very odd..

 

please help

thank you

[trazx]

Yes, that is precisely what it says, everything checks out and it says I need to move the userdata.inc.php which I do move...however the installation doesn't seem to recognize that.

 

pretty preceptive of you I hope there is a solution though..i'm changing my nginx user to root for now, although I know that is a huge safety issue... I am server-newbie so i appreciate if someone can point me toward a more realistic solution...

 

thanks...

[d00p]

Eh...what?

 

if you moved the file to the correct destination and with correct permissions, Froxlor does recognize is 100%.

and please, never let a webserver run as root...

[trazx]

lol I still haven't changed it to root,haha the more I think about it the crazier it sounds so I thought I'd be a good newbie and hold it off and look for a better solution.

 

Any idea how to modify my permissions in such a way so that scripts such as froxlor can safely create their files? my http user is www-data, are there any linux commands I should run to give it correct permissions so that it may create folders/files without having it as root?

 

I know this is a noob question but I would appreciate some help from you gurus

 

thanks a lot

[d00p]

you are on a shell right?

 

when you reach the point where the installation tells you to move the userdata.inc.php from /tmp/ to /var/www/froxlor/lib do:

 

mv /tmp/userdata.inc.php /var/www/froxlor/lib

 

then set permissions so the webserver can read it (www-data = webserver username, might differ on your system!)

 

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/froxlor

 

then open the panel in a webbrowser

[trazx]

Thanks alot that solved it I ran it for the whole www folder in case I run into similar issues in the future THANK YOU

 

Froxlor is functioning and looks cool. I really appreciate the help.

 

I am wondering though, whenever I create a customer and then add a domain, Frxolor doesn't create the sub directory for it (even though the main directory exists and has the correct permissions) and also the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default file doesn't appear to change at all.

 

I'm not sure, really if froxlor is supposed to make the directory or change the nginx default file..but I was hoping that it would...

or is it that we have to manually do that...? bit confused..

 

 

thanks

[d00p]

check the cronjob...

[trazx]

Here they are:

 

Outstanding cron-tasks:

Rebuilding webserver-configuration

Adding new customer lolads

Rebuilding bind-configuration

Creating directory for new ftp-user

 

I really really appreciate the help, hope I can return it in some way...thanks

[d00p]

please follow the configuration steps for each service you want to use shown in the admin-menu "Configuration" (especially System -> cron)

[trazx]

I configured it according to the instructions, but to no avail. I'm sure i'm giving you a headache (cause I have one myself lol) so i'll just meddle around till it gets fixed (hoping trial and error with help out )

 

thanks again for the help

[trazx]

wohooo, it worked, reloaded everything and it worked :)thanks alot d00p!

[d00p]

What does it say on the last page (where you click 'click here to login')

 

i BET your froxlor folder is not writeable for the nginx-user and thus the autogenerated userdata.inc.php file could not be written to froxlor/lib but instead to /tmp/ and with a notice to copy it to froxlor/lib