In transition

This page is used to detail the work achieved around the VM In Transition - Transitional

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How to use Yunohost web services

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Installation of yunohost in a LXC container

Create the container with a debian stretch base as root :

lxc-create -n transitional -t debian -- -r stretch

Edit the config to set-up the network

nano /var/lib/lxc/transitional/config

it shoud look like :

lxc.network.type = veth
lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:cd:ad:29
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.link = lxc-nat-bridge
lxc.network.name = eth0
# you have to set a specific IP for this container (here .2)
lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.0.3.2
lxc.network.ipv4.gateway = 10.0.3.1
lxc.rootfs = /var/lib/lxc/transitional/rootfs
lxc.rootfs.backend = dir

# Common configuration
lxc.include = /usr/share/lxc/config/debian.common.conf

# Container specific configuration
lxc.tty = 4
lxc.utsname = transitional
lxc.arch = amd64
lxc.start.auto = 1

Modify + record, then start the container

lxc-start -n transitional

Log in the container as root

lxc-attach -n transitional

Then you have a shell in the container and can proceed to the installation

root@transitional:/#
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install net-tools nano git nload htop iputils-ping curl
curl https://install.yunohost.org | bash

Setting-up the proxy in front apache

ToDo

• There is a need to put in vhost a specific parameter : https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslproxyengine

SSLProxyEngine On

Installing Yunohost for deploying quickly various web services

• Reference website: https://yunohost.org/#/
• List of apps and services maintained by Yunohost https://yunohost.org/#/apps_en
• Lists of apps and services maintained by the community https://yunohost.org/#/apps_in_progress_en
• For installing Yunohost in a Debian Jessie, we use the following script https://yunohost.org/#/install_on_debian_en

Yunohost uses nginx, therefore when installing Debian, do not check the option "Web server", if not Apache will eat port 80

• Instal Git

sudo apt-get install git

• Clone the repository of installation of YunoHost

git clone https://github.com/YunoHost/install_script /tmp/install_script

• The root user need to have a password, if it is not the case, create one (if not the install script will fail):

sudo passwd root

• Launch the install script

cd /tmp/install_script && sudo ./install_yunohostv2

• You need then to connect to the server through a web browser, once the install process is over, the server screen (if there is one) will indicate the IP where you need to connect
• You will need to define an administrator password
• And a domain name, either you dispose of a domain or sub-domain that you direct towards the server, either you can use a dyndns proposed by yunohost, for instance anarchaserver.nohost.me
• Once everything is achieved, you can install applications, and the overall results looks like:

Post Post installation : tuning the configuration

• A few security things : https://yunohost.org/#/security_en
• For Jirafeau, to remove the need for a password to upload, remove the password at line 77 of /var/www/jirafeau/lib/config.local.php

$cfg['upload_password'] = array();

Change Theme for the user portal

• https://yunohost.org/en/theming

Debug install

If "Error: An error occurred during LDAP operation", than it is possible to reset the post install :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YunoHost/yunoScripts/master/resetPostinstall.sh
chmod +x resetPostinstall.sh
./resetPostinstall.sh

In my case, the ldap package was broken so :

apt update
apt --fix-broken install

Then

 ./resetPostinstall.sh
yunohost tools postinstall --debug

To reset the admin password in LDAP :

yunohost-reset-ldap-password

To make a regen conf of LDAP

yunohost service regen-conf ldap --force

Restore a backup of your ldap database too

yunohost backup restore --system conf_ldap --debug

DNS troubleshooting inside a container

It seems that DNS resolution is limited @tachanka to certain adresses :

So there is a need to change dns servers in the yunohost container as yunohost relies on dnsmasq with its own dns server list

nano /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf
nameserver 209.51.171.179
nameserver 216.66.15.28
nameserver 216.66.15.23

or FFDN ones if it doesn't work

nameserver 80.67.169.12
nameserver 80.67.169.40

DNS debug

nslookup
> server 127.0.0.1
> set debug   
> host x.org
dig @8.8.8.8 x.org
netstat -atun | grep 53

cat /var/log/syslog |grep dnsmasq
dnsmasq.service: Failed to reset devices.list: Operation not permitted

not important !

nano /lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service
localectl and hostnamectl

Tester si dns requêtes arrivent au host

sudo tcpdump -X -i lxc-nat-bridge dst port 53 |grep x.org
sudo tcpdump -X -i eth0 host 209.51.171.179 and port 53