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Basic iFolder howto… finally!!!

by sshaw

As promised, I have finally created a quick howto for setting up iFolder. This is a really simple get your feet wet instruction set. It runs through the basics and includes SSL, but doesn’t show you how to set up LDAP of any kind. Someone else is going to help out with that howto. This should be posted to the iFolder community site in the next week or so as time permits.

If anyone has something to add/change please leave a comment!

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Steps to setting up iFolder
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– Boot image of choice
– Log in as root (password: ifolder, please change this 🙂
– cd iFolder
– sh BuildSSL.sh
— Enter a pass phrase for server.key: (enter a pass phrase)
— Verify – Enter pass phrase for server.key: (verify the pass phrase)
— Enter pass phrase for server.key: (this is the pass phrase you just entered)
— Fillout information for certificate request (with your own data)
— Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]: US
— State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]: UT
— Lacality Name (eg, city) []: Provo
— Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgets Pty Ltd]: Novell
— Organizational Unit Name (eg, section)[]: SLED Accessibility
— Common Name (eg, YOUR name)[]: Stephen Shaw
— Email Address[]:sshaw{at}decriptor[dot]com
— A challenge password []: (I just hit enter, correct me)
— An optional companyname []: (I just hit enter, correct me)
— Enter pass phrase for server.key (this is the pass phrase from above)
— Enter pass phrase for server.key (the second time, this is the pass phrase from above)

That’s it for BuildSSL.sh

– Sh BuildiFolder.sh
– Server’s Data Path? [/var/simias/data]: (use default)
– Server Name? [Host1]: iFolder1 (up to you)
– SSL?[SSL]: (use default)
– Public URL? [http://ipaddress/simias10]: (use default)
– Private URL? [https://ipaddress/simias10]: (use default)
– Slave Server? [N]: (use default, unless it is a slave)
– System Name? [iFolder]: (use default)
– System Description? [iFolder Enterprise System]: (use what you want)
– Use Key Recovery Agent? [Y]: (use defaults if you want to be able to recovery forgotten pass phrases)
– Recovery Agent Certificate Path? [/var/simias/data]: (use default)
– Use LDAP? [Y]: N (for a simple setup we won’t use LDAP)
– System Admin? [admin]: (use default)
– System Admin Password? [novell]: (you will probably want to change this)
– Configure Apache? [N]: Y (make sure you do this)

– Web Alias? [/admin]: (use default)
– Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
– Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
– iFolder URL? [https://localhost:443/]: (use default)
– Redirect URL? []: (use default)
– Accept iFolder Server Certificate? [Y]: (use default)
– Web Alias? [/ifolder]: (use default)
– Require SSL? [Y]: (use default)
– Require Server SSL? [Y]: (use default)
– iFolder URL? [https://localhost:443/]: (use default)
– Redirect URL? []: (use default)
– Accept iFolder Server Certificate? [Y]: (use default)

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Errata
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– delete the commented line out of /usr/lib/simias/webaccess/iFolders.aspx around line 84

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Testing the setup
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– goto https://ipaddress/admin (user: admin pass: novell, unless you changed it)
– You will very likely have to add an exception for the cert
– create a user
– Change the Home Server and don’t forget to hit save at the bottom

– goto https://ipaddress/ifolder (use the user you just created)
– login

– download the client and see if you can connect.

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Congrats, if you got this far then it should be working