install on RHEL

[neorder]

my server is running

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 2)

i just installed directadmin, the dafault http webpage worked but DA won't work.

i can't login through myserverIP:2222, why? apf was configured with open port 2222, and iis was stopped at this moment actually.

anyone had the same b4? any tips?

[l0rdphi1]

RHEL3 ran through install without problem for me. You may want to give support@ a buzz if this is urgent.

[vandal]

iis? isn't that the windows only webserver?

are you doing http://myip:2222/ ? without the http:// in front it does not appear to work.

[neorder]

kudos DA support! i emailed them and got the answer right away.

it was due to i had 2 LAN card on my machine, after i checked

/var/log/directadmin/error.log

i found this kinda of message:

The ip of this machine does not match the ip in the license file :

then edit

/usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

change

ethernet_dev=eth0 to ethernet_dev=eth1

restart directadmin, and it work!

i love directadmin :)

[l0rdphi1]

Ah, good call DA support! ;)

:D

[neorder]

new problem, i can't login start from this afternoon again.

here is the error i read from /var/log/directadmin/error.log

2004:06:08-21:44:31: CustomHttpd::getDomainList: Error reading ./data/admin/php_safe_mode.cache : Unable to open ./data/admin/php_safe_mode.cache for reading.<br>

2004:06:09-00:31:33: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:31:38: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:32:08: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:33:55: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:34:06: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:38:53: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:40:18: Unable to write session file:
2004:06:09-00:40:30: Unable to write session file:

this is a new server and i just installed a couple of software like mod_security, but i can't find what caused this.

anyway, i can't login again...

[neorder]

Originally posted by vandal
iis? isn't that the windows only webserver?

are you doing http://myip:2222/ ? without the http:// in front it does not appear to work.

vandal, i woke up too early this morning, when i read my first post now, i also don't understand why i wrote IIS, lol.

anyway, yeah, without putting http:// in front of the IP, the login won't work as well, is that a bug should be fixed in the next release?

[vandal]

does that file exist? who is the owner and what are the permissions of that file.

ls -al /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/php_safe_mode.cache

paste the result please.

[vandal]

Originally posted by neorder
vandal, i woke up too early this morning, when i read my first post now, i also don't understand why i wrote IIS, lol.

anyway, yeah, without putting http:// in front of the IP, the login won't work as well, is that a bug should be fixed in the next release?

not sure if it's a bug, it may just be the way DA works.

[neorder]

Originally posted by vandal
does that file exist? who is the owner and what are the permissions of that file.

ls -al /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/php_safe_mode.cache

paste the result please.

what i got is

-rw------- 1 diradmin diradmin 45 Jun 9 00:28 /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/php_safe_mode.cache

[vandal]

hrmm that seems correct.

try:

mkdir /home/tmp
chmod 1777 /home/tmp

service directadmin restart


and try to log in again

[neorder]

i have /home/tmp, are session files stored in this dir?

but there is strange file inside this dir, this is the "ls" result:

da_sess_oViBgTunH9wmk1fJRQNx0pzozjXIvj0kCivsAndPwaBebpw1FHwD7t04cXMVEMFR domains mail public_html

i display this file by "cat da*", it shows me the file:

ip=218.186.85.31
key=28JCvvcqVlS4aM5oe11ls1pUY90lTDCVMTiFOI5t3Wyes1QU1RDtR0Mx9KicXs6t
passwd=ajRtaEhpV3Q=
username=admin

do you have this file? should i delete it? isn't it strange..

[neorder]

anyway, i deleted this strange file, never seen before in my previous installation.

then

chmod 1777 /home/tmp

good thing is it's working and i can login now! :D

thank you vandal

[vandal]

do not delete that. it's your session file, that was what the error was in your logs it could not write to /home/tmp.

the info in there is the user and your ip (from your home machine).

best to leave it.

[neorder]

but i've deleted it, and it worked, i will keep my eyes on this dir to see if there are any new files created automatically.

is it because of chmod 1777...

because i always use chmod in this way : chmod 777

what is the "1" doing here?

thanks.

[vandal]

1777 means that (well the 1 especially) only the owner of the directory, owner of the file, and of course root can delete any particular file in that directory. chmod 777 means anyone can read/write/execute any files in there.

so lets say 'user1' logs in and deletes all your session files in /home/tmp because it was chmod'd 777.

not cool.

[neorder]

i see, thanks. a lesson learnt today ;)

[vandal]

no probs :)

[neorder]

this is strange,

just now i can't login again, the tmp dir under /home was just disappearred!

i had to recreate it, then i could login.:confused:

[neorder]

DA support,

this is happening very very often, DA create a strange session file and all my users including me can't login anymore.

this has happened 3 times today, i've to delete it manually, restart DA to get it back to work.

please note one of the time, the /home/tmp was just disappeared, i've to recreate it.

:confused:

[jlasman]

Have you written DA support? They may react to a support message a lot more quickly than they'll see a post here.

Jeff

[neorder]

FYI, DA save it's session file at /home/tmp

but i accidentally created a user called "tmp", this user also use the /home/tmp dir, and that confused DA.

Support has told me this issue will be addressed in the next release.