Looking for help in creating appliance for qdPM Project Management.

http://qdpm.net/

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux/+spec/qdpm-appliance

Interested user and Web Designer / Developer. Very busy don't have a lot of time.

Running already on Turnkey Lamp Server.

Moderate Linux Skills. Not directly connected to qdPM project. Just love the software.

Ok so when I first found out about this place and linux appliances in general I threw up VirtualBox on a Win 03 server and took off...

I have since taken old server HW and thew Ubuntu on there (latest) and VMWare Server (not sure which version).

I have no problems grabbing a new VM and adding it to the server HOWEVER I shut down my VirtualBox machine (Joomla if that matters) and copied the files over and set the permissions (file) properly.  

This one is a bit tricky to ask so an example:

In the case of a tkl appliance acting as a file server how would one recover one users file without affecting others?

Say a user 'fred' deletes a file and a week later discovers that he did so in error and needs it back. (Which happens regularly.)

Say I restore from a backup prior to the date he deleted the file.

Won't restore use the base appliance as a 'template' and restore the entire system to the state it was in at that time, losing ALL changes after that date?

I have forced tklbam-backup to make a full backup once per day by editing /etc/tklbam/conf.

I now have 2 full backups and several incremental backups stored on S3 for this machine.

After reading this post:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20110126/few-questions-new-user#comment-6833

I expected the older full to 'roll off' and leave only the most current.

I want to place multiple TK WordPress appliances on my MacMini in my office. I would like each of these sites to be accessible through the Internet.

I already have a dyndns.org account setup that is working with a local installation of MAMP (the Mac version of LAMP).

I assume that I can run multiple TK WordPress appliances and use a router to forward URL requests to the appropriate VM. Is that correct?

I noticed while re-deploying an appliance that some of the updates said they were failing.

My guess is because we have to aggressively block things here at the high school. I can white list the URLs that I need to reach, if I know what they are. Installation goes so quickly, I can't quite figure out what all I need to open up.

Is there a list of URLs needed for the machines to be able to speak to once deployed?

Thanks!

When I was installing the Ruby on Rails appliance, I told it to update the security.  After a awhile, it timed out.

I could be mistaken in what I copied from the screen.

I wrote:

cronapt

/var/log/cron-apt/log

Later in a webshell, I enter cronapt but the command was not found.

Based on the log file entry, I typed cron-apt which seems to work.

On the off chance that I did copy the message correctly and you have a typo in your instructions, I am letting you know.

Hello,

I try to install several machine on my ESXI4 server and got a problem when running them.

the machine start but dropp to a shell because of some error :

ALERT! /dev/mapper/turnkey-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell

I try to use the vm image and it is the same as the ovf.

Am I missing something.

Christophe

Hello,

I just created a new EC2 instance with Magento appliance.

Now, I see that on the Turnkey panel, when we click on the "Webshell" icon, it starts a login procedure to Magento.

I have a very basic question...

What are the username/password set by default ?

What are the real practical advantages of running VMWARE Tools on a VM on a ESX system?

I'm asking this question because I saw that TKL 11 has those tools already installed. Our VM doesnt have them (TKL LAMP Ubuntu server 8.04) and we never installed them.