Comments on: eGroupware - web-based groupware suite Setup

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:08:24 +0000

I seem to get to the setup/config admin login page and it will not accept the password. I have used the same password for the mysql user and when the database was added. I have also started again from scratch (new ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation - still no success). I can log in to the header admin account only.
Any suggestions!

By: DFSI

DFSI — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:10:57 +0000

I also encountered this problem during install on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

I fixed like this :

Each time I had a link called ‘doc’ (etemplates, sitemgr) I remove it and create a new folder
sudo rm doc
sudo mkdir doc
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data doc
sudo chmod -R 775 doc

About these links :
/usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr -> /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/sitemgr-link-php

and

sitemgr-link.php -> /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/sitemgr-link.php

I simply removed them, and check is OK…

And it seems to work for me.

By: ahmad javadi

ahmad javadi — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:20:26 +0000

hi
i am using ubuntu server 10.04
and do installation steps completely but when i want to login the ” Your session could not be verified” showed please help me to solve it ?

By: nym

nym — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:07:40 +0000

hi,
for my installation the cyberdoo78 solution does not work, I’ve fixed with:

sudo rm /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr-link
sudo ln -s /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/sitemgr-link-php /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr-link

seem to search the file without extension

bye

By: cyberdoo78

cyberdoo78 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:42:33 +0000

Sure….

Use this command and it should fix ya up:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/sitemgr-link.php /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr-link.php

By: ohcee

ohcee — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:30:18 +0000

@cyberdoo78 can you elaborate a bit more, Im having the same issue.. thanks.

By: cyberdoo78

cyberdoo78 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:42:57 +0000

Following joe325 directions under Ubuntu 10.04 using egroupware 1.6.001 resulted in an error in finding sitemgr-link. Found sitemgr-link.php in the sitemgr directory. Fixed by linking the file correctly.

By: joe325

joe325 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:26:39 +0000

sudo rm /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
sudo cp -R /usr/share/doc/egroupware-etemplate/ /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
sudo rm /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/doc
sudo cp -R /usr/share/doc/egroupware-sitemgr/ /usr/share/egroupware/sitemgr/doc

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:50:09 +0000

About the doc not found error.

After lots of head scratching, I bit the bullet and went back a generation in the server OS from JJ (Ubuntu 9.04) to HH (Ubuntu 8.04lts).

All of the permissions errors disappear as long as you follow the apache/php/mysql install guide also referenced here.

Don’t forget to create a mysql database for egroupware first (egroupware is a good name for it) and to also create a mysql user (again egroupware seems appropriate) and not to forget to set permissions to be all and a password of your choosing (as i was on a roll, egroupware got to be that as well!). If you do not create the database to begin with when you try to populate the db it will fail.

shane

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:16:31 +0000

I am using Ubuntu ‘native’. I would not try in VM mostly from my lack of experience with eGW and the VM environment.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:13:44 +0000

Sorry this reply is so late… just going ‘production’ with Ubuntu 9.04 server and eGW 1.4 this week. It is our new company ‘intranet portal’. Kind of a steep learning curve, and behind schedule, but so far so good!

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:48:39 +0000

Hi Rich

I see you have a very recent install experience with eGroupware. Are you using this in a production environment?

I was hoping to install on an 8.04 LTS server I just built, but am trying to decide if I should go native on the O/S or build a VM in VirtualBox.

regards
Ken

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:00:32 +0000

2nd try at an install worked… not sure what I did differently , but I followed the above instructions carefully this time with no shortcuts.
Ubuntu 9.04 Server + did the Apache2 and MySql install part anyway (even thou these come with Unbuntu) + the egroupware install…
main difference is I left the Ubuntu srvr quite bare and did the eGW setup from another computer using a browser (1st attempt was all on the Unbuntu srvr after adding a GUI and browser and other stuff) to the Ubuntu install ISO.

I am willing to try to answer questions if others try this and have any problems.

Rich

By: wayward4now

wayward4now — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:42:45 +0000

Summer, I have had the same problem since day one. I too would like to know how to fix this. Thanks to the Ubuntu Crew for their efforts. Ric

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:43:33 +0000

In installation test finally got no errors, only advertisement of Oracle, but I use mysql, but in login windows still:

Your session could not be verified.

what’s wrong?

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:41:25 +0000

Thanks ‘jimbo’! I am now past the Installation Check but am stuck at Step 1 of Setup…
rcvg this …

backupdir ‘/var/lib/setup/default/backup’ is not writeable by the webserver*

and cannot fix it even with a chmod 777 of the entire path.

Are these bugs in the install and config scripts?

Sure wish this install was less error prone

By: jimbo

jimbo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:48:27 +0000

@Rich: had the same issue. quick fix was to rm that sym-link, /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc and cp -r what it’s pointing to, /usr/share/doc/egroupware/etemplate/doc or whatever it was. after fixing the first one, it’ll do the same thing again with another sym-link, just do the same thing with it’s proper directory and you should be set.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:46:35 +0000

I too am having problems with permissions and the
Checking file-permissions of .././etemplate/doc for not world writable:
.././etemplate/doc does not exist !!!”
and am not finding a fix with lots of googling.

Has anyone figured this out for an install on Ubuntu server 9.04 ?

Thanks,
Rich

By: jaredyohc

jaredyohc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:34:27 +0000

I went through all the steps up until the part where we either create a new database or RE-Check Database. It doesn’t allow me to create a new one, just re-check it. I’m running on PGSQL, am I supposed to be running my SQL? How do I back up out of this if this is the case and redo??

Thank you!

By: wayward4now

wayward4now — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:22:45 +0000

I’d like to know how to solve that doc’s not found error too… I hope someone posts a fix. Thanks! Ric