ispCP and CentOS = this_sucks

[obey]

i had some serious errors with the install instructions under docs/CentOS/INSTALL
first, the url courier should be downloaded from isn't existent.
then... centOS handles all apache files under /etc/httpd. the created tmp files are under /etc/apache2 which is debian-style.
third.. the "chkconfig --levels 3 6 ispcp_daemon on && chkconfig --levels 3 6 ispcp_network on" command is wrong syntax and not supported by ispcp_daemon...

it seems there is a lot of work to do....

nevertheless i managed to set it up. but if i try to log into the controlpanel it won't go to the start screen. all i get is the login-screen again. the strange thing about this, is that the session for the admin users exists (if i try to log in again it says: duplicate entry for... so the session is written to the db)
and the login-notification-mail is sent. so...it seems everything works fine except the gui.

any suggestions?
my customer is getting tired and angry for having a sysadmin work so long on a simple control panel installation and asks me already for another cp...

thx in advance
andy

[jmeyerdo]

obey Wrote:it seems there is a lot of work to do....

Yes, this is known very well...
Actually the only Linux-OS ispCP is optimized for is Debian. Even it is possible to run ispCP with CentOS it is not working out of the box.

I would suggest that there are more adaptions necessary than the few described by you...

To your problem: Please check the logs of the webserver and the suexec.log. From my memory I would suggest that there are problems with the phptmp-directory (user-rights/permissions) and the session-handling is not working.

Kind regards, Jens

[gOOvER]

ispCP is developed under Debian. Why you don't use Debian, when your customer is allready angry?

Sorry, but ispCP only works out-of-the-Box under Debian.

[obey]

gOOvER Wrote:ispCP is developed under Debian. Why you don't use Debian, when your customer is allready angry?

because CentOS is the distribution he wants to have....

[obey]

solved!

it was indeed a user/permission problem with the phptmp.
thx a lot to jmeyerdo for helping me opening my eyes

nevertheless, the install instructions have to be worked over..
i could help you out, if you like.

greets

[motokochan]

Hate to revive this topic, but I'm actually working on making sure everything works under CentOS then I'll be submitting updates to fix the install docs.

To get things working, I used the Fedora instructions with a few minor variations. The only thing I'm stuck on right now is suExec issues. I tested and everything else seems to be working great.