lainie Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Oh.. and another thing i want to mention.. if you've read my post before in this thread, i found a problem where vboxwebsrv -b -H 192.168.0.199 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null This line of the command causes the permission for "/dev/null" to be changed.. and this cause some other plug-ins to function incorrectly. so instead of setting the logfile to /dev/null, I recommend creating a folder somewhere.. make a folder like /mnt/cache/vbox/log or something. Then run it like this.. vboxwebsrv -b -H 192.168.0.199 --logfile /mnt/cache/vbox/log >/dev/null I need to try this when I get home. Thanks Jang!! Jangjong, I have updated the install instructions now to use vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /var/log/vbox.log instead of /dev/null. That way the log will be in the same directory as syslog & other logs. Your post on how to setup multiple web ports for lighttpd helped me & when I see someone wanting to run multiple web apps, I point them to your thread. Lots are using the information found in that thread successfully (including me). Thank you for sharing it. Jtech007, You need to edit the lighttpd.cfg file for your setup. This includes editing the IP addresses for your server, providing the path to phpvirtualbox & making sure there are no rewrite rules applied to phpvirtualbox. The above log file fix is not the issue for you. It would not hurt to change it, but it has nothing to do with changing how your web server displays pages. Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Jtech007, You need to edit the lighttpd.cfg file for your setup. This includes editing the IP addresses for your server, providing the path to phpvirtualbox & making sure there are no rewrite rules applied to phpvirtualbox. The above log file fix is not the issue for you. It would not hurt to change it, but it has nothing to do with changing how your web server displays pages. Any idea what I need to change? I have my original file but have no clue what is attributed to Newznab and VB or what code to add (not my strong suit)... I attached the original lightpd file. lighttpd.txt Link to comment
jangjong Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Any idea what I need to change? I have my original file but have no clue what is attributed to Newznab and VB or what code to add (not my strong suit)... I attached the original lightpd file. Okay, to help you out i will need these from you: [*]Path of where Newznab is located [*]Path of where phpvirtualbox is located [*]Your local IP address of your unraid machine [*]Your "Web root directory:" path under the web sever setting in WebGUI [*]Your "Listening port:" setting under the web sever setting in WebGUI I can help you write lighttpd.cfg if you need. You weren't supposed to copy exactly what i have. You were supposed to use my lighttd.cfg as a guide line. Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Any idea what I need to change? I have my original file but have no clue what is attributed to Newznab and VB or what code to add (not my strong suit)... I attached the original lightpd file. Okay, to help you out i will need these from you: Path of where Newznab is located /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/newznab Path of where phpvirtualbox is located /config/plugins/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 Your local IP address of your unraid machine 192.168.1.3 Your "Web root directory:" path under the web sever setting in WebGUI /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/newznab/www Your "Listening port:" setting under the web sever setting in WebGUI 81 I can help you write lighttpd.cfg if you need. That would be great, but I would also like to "learn" what it does and what needs to be added to make each one work. I am not sure at this point what that file does for newznab and why it interferes with other processes. You weren't supposed to copy exactly what i have. You were supposed to use my lighttd.cfg as a guide line. I found that out after it didn't work. I made a backup of the original file and can work from there. Thanks again! Link to comment
jangjong Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Okay.. try to follow this step: [*]Move /config/plugins/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/ so it will be /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 [*]Create a folder called 'main' in webroot so it will be /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main [*]Open up the setting page for Simplefeature Webserver [*]Change Web root directory to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main [*]Change Listening port to 85 [*] Use this for your lighttpd.cfg # User customizations # Add your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot ## Abdd your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot # $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:81" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/newznab/www/" url.rewrite-once = ( "^/.*\.(css|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|js|ico)" => "$0", "^/(admin|install).*$" => "$0", "^/([^/\.]+)/?(?:\?(.*))$" => "index.php?page=$1&$2", "^/([^/\.]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/?(?:\?(.*))$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2&$3", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2&subpage=$3" ) } $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/" } This should enable you to have your newznab at http://192.168.1.3:81 and phpvirtualbox at http://192.168.1.3:8333 If you want to use a different port other than 8333, just change it in the lighttpd.cfg file. It's simple as that. but we are NOT DONE yet. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you follow these steps to install and set up VirtualBox. It won't work correctly if you don't run these commands in this order: [*]installpkg vbox-4.2.6-unRAID-3.4.24.tgz [*]VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null [*]vboxwebsrv -b -H 192.168.1.3 --logfile /var/log/vbox.log [*]VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack After you have done above, navigate to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 If you haven't already, change config.php-example to config.php.. Open up config.php Find this line: var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/'; Change it to this var $location = 'http://192.168.1.3:18083/'; NOW, you should be all done. open up http://192.168.1.3:8333 The default username is admin, and the password is admin If you want to skip this authentication, find this line in config.php #var $noAuth = true; remove # (uncomment it), it will look like this: var $noAuth = true; This will skip the authentication process Let me know how this works out for you Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Okay.. try to follow this step: [*]Move /config/plugins/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/ so it will be /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 [*]Create a folder called 'main' in webroot so it will be /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main [*]Open up the setting page for Simplefeature Webserver [*]Change Web root directory to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main [*]Change Listening port to 85 [*] Use this for your lighttpd.cfg # User customizations # Add your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot ## Abdd your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot # $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:81" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/newznab/www/" url.rewrite-once = ( "^/.*\.(css|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|js|ico)" => "$0", "^/(admin|install).*$" => "$0", "^/([^/\.]+)/?(?:\?(.*))$" => "index.php?page=$1&$2", "^/([^/\.]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/?(?:\?(.*))$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2&$3", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2", "^/([^/\.]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$" => "index.php?page=$1&id=$2&subpage=$3" ) } $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/" } This should enable you to have your newznab at http://192.168.1.3:81 and phpvirtualbox at http://192.168.1.3:8333 If you want to use a different port other than 8333, just change it in the lighttpd.cfg file. It's simple as that. but we are NOT DONE yet. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you follow these steps to install and set up VirtualBox. It won't work correctly if you don't run these commands in this order: [*]installpkg vbox-4.2.6-unRAID-3.4.24.tgz [*]VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null [*]vboxwebsrv -b -H 192.168.1.3 --logfile /var/log/vbox.log [*]VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack After you have done above, navigate to /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 If you haven't already, change config.php-example to config.php.. Open up config.php Find this line: var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/'; Change it to this var $location = 'http://192.168.1.3:18083/'; NOW, you should be all done. open up http://192.168.1.3:8333 The default username is admin, and the password is admin If you want to skip this authentication, find this line in config.php #var $noAuth = true; remove # (uncomment it), it will look like this: var $noAuth = true; This will skip the authentication process Let me know how this works out for you Cool! Thanks for spelling it out for me. I did everything and of course it did not work. Cannot see newznab either. But here is something weird that I found in the lightpd error log: [25-Jan-2013 05:08:49 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: string in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/mysql/mysqlctl.php on line 148 [25-Jan-2013 05:08:49 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: results in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/mysql/mysqlctl.php on line 100 [25-Jan-2013 05:18:01 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: string in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/mysql/mysqlctl.php on line 148 [25-Jan-2013 05:18:01 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: results in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/mysql/mysqlctl.php on line 100 The Web Server will not start no matter what I do or try. While in putty I did get this that I had not seen before: VirtualBox web service 4.2.6 r82870 linux.x86 (Dec 19 2012 15:42:02) release log 00:00:00.000106 main Log opened 2013-01-25T05:23:35.427945000Z 00:00:00.000108 main OS Product: Linux 00:00:00.000109 main OS Release: 3.4.11-unRAID 00:00:00.000111 main OS Version: #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 17:36:21 PDT 2012 00:00:00.000128 main Host RAM: 3764MB total, 2498MB available 00:00:00.000131 main Executable: /opt/VirtualBox/vboxwebsrv 00:00:00.000132 main Process ID: 11852 00:00:00.000133 main Package type: LINUX_32BITS_GENERIC Which I believe is a good thing. Am I correct in thinking that the last hurdle I getting the WebGUI running to see the VB interface? Link to comment
jangjong Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Did you follow every steps I listed? Creating a main folder, changing the web root directory and changing the port on webserver config? Is the port number 85 getting used by anything ? or is the port number 8333 getting used by anything? We don't need to worry about that log. That log is not relevant the webserver won't start if there is a conflicting port number. the webserver also won't start if the web root directory you have set is invalid. before we do anything with virtualbox, we need to figure out what the problem is with the webserver.. So. First of all, delete all settings in lighttpd.cfg (Located at /boot/config/plugins/simpleFeatures). DO NOT DELETE THE FILE. just make it an empty file. then start the server. Does the server start? If it doesn't, then you have some wrong setting in the web server setting. a listening port number that is getting used by some other web app, or incorrect web root directory in this case, make sure you don't have any typo for for the web root directory setting, and make sure that path exist. if the path looks correct, try changing ports to see if you can start the server. DO NOT USE 81 OR 8333. These will get used by newznab and phpvirtualbox. if it does start, there must be something wrong with lighttpd.cfg in this case..take a screen shot of the web server setting in web gui so i know exact setting you have. now. try use this for your lighttpd.cfg: # User customizations # Add your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot # $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/" } if this starts, then it must mean that you didnt change the port number in the webserver setting and still have it as 81 If this doesn't start..make sure this path (/mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/) is valid. phpvirtualbox-4.2-4 must be a folder, not the zip file. it has to be the content of what you extracted from phpvirtualbox-4.2-4.zip also look at lighttpd.cfg. You will see this line $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { change that 8333 to some other number (random number like 28437) Also, please make sure you can access unraid with http://192.168.1.3.. When we got everything working and find out what was wrong, then I can try to explain what lighttpd.cfg is doing you will learn better that way Link to comment
tolax Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 So after several attempts here are the steps I go through to get this to work.... I am running RC10 with SAB, SickBeard, mySQL (xbmc), AirVideo, SimpleFeatures. My server IP is 192.168.0.43 (so if following these steps change this as necessary). My phpVirtualBox is installed at /mnt/cache/appdata/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/ Download files and save them as per the link in the first post (thanks Iainie) Connect to server via telnet and run... /boot/packages/installpkg vbox-4.2.6-unRAID-3.4.24.tgz VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null VBoxManage setproperty vrdeauthlibrary default vboxwebsrv -b -H 192.168.0.43 --logfile /var/log/vbox.log VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack Open Web Browser and go to 192.168.0.43/settings Select Webserver icon and ensure Web Root Directory = /mnt/cache/appdata/www Listening Port = 8804 If this is a first install then edit /mnt/cache/appdata/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/config.php and change var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/'; to var $location = 'http://192.168.0.43:18083/'; Start Webserver Open Browser and go to 192.168.0.43:8404 Login with admin (u) and admin (p) Once you have created your VM (XP in my case) install the Guest additions via the Settings-->Guest Additions... menu. It will greatly improve the remote mouse control and display responsiveness. Hope this helps. Tolax Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Did you follow every steps I listed? Creating a main folder, changing the web root directory and changing the port on webserver config? Yes. Yes & Yes but I found something wrong that kinda fixed the web server startup issue. I created the /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main folder but forgot to move the phpVB and newznab folders into it. The webserver starts now. Port is 85 (as you requested). I also copied the lightpd file for just phpVB as I don't care about newznab running, just VB. So the webserver is running, port is 85, /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main is the web root dir and ran all three files in the console and now I get a 404 - not found error when I try to access it via 192.168.1.3:8333. SO I looked back at a few of your prior posts and actually learned (somewhat) what this does. Since I just copied this: # User customizations # Add your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot # $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/"} To my lightpd file and saved it I noticed that since my web root dir is currently /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main that it why I got the 404 error as the lightpd file is looking for it at /mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/. So I changed the lightpd file to match the web root dir that you had me change it to earlier and now I am looking at the login prompt for the phpVB. Finally got it working! Thank you very much for all your help on this one, and to lainie as well for putting it all together and hosting the site. Hopefully other nOOB's like me will benefit from my issues and get it working. Link to comment
jangjong Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Did you follow every steps I listed? Creating a main folder, changing the web root directory and changing the port on webserver config? Yes. Yes & Yes but I found something wrong that kinda fixed the web server startup issue. I created the /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main folder but forgot to move the phpVB and newznab folders into it. The webserver starts now. Port is 85 (as you requested). I also copied the lightpd file for just phpVB as I don't care about newznab running, just VB. So the webserver is running, port is 85, /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main is the web root dir and ran all three files in the console and now I get a 404 - not found error when I try to access it via 192.168.1.3:8333. SO I looked back at a few of your prior posts and actually learned (somewhat) what this does. Since I just copied this: # User customizations # Add your own settings here. These won't get overwritten upon reboot # $SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.1.3:8333" { server.document-root = "/mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/"} To my lightpd file and saved it I noticed that since my web root dir is currently /mnt/cache/appdata/webroot/main that it why I got the 404 error as the lightpd file is looking for it at /mnt/cache/www/phpvirtualbox-4.2-4/. So I changed the lightpd file to match the web root dir that you had me change it to earlier and now I am looking at the login prompt for the phpVB. Finally got it working! Thank you very much for all your help on this one, and to lainie as well for putting it all together and hosting the site. Hopefully other nOOB's like me will benefit from my issues and get it working. oh oops, i had that wrong lighttpd.cfg.. lol sorry about that. shouldn't be /mnt/cache/www.... well anyway, glad you got it to work! Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 No problem! I am glad that I was actually able to figure something out. I probably need to take some classes to understand it more. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Does anyone know if VB will support more than one physical network card installed inside the box? Currently all it sees is the onboard NIC but I have a quad port gigabit that I would like to use for VM's and a pfSense install. Link to comment
nars Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Did you setup the second eth interface? This may help you: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14988.msg141655#msg141655 Anyway not sure if you will get the network performance you want for pfSense using emulated network interfaces, unless using virtio with pfSense maybe? but no idea if that would be easy... maybe esxi would be better for such setup if you hardware is ok for that... Link to comment
jtech007 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Did you setup the second eth interface? This may help you: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14988.msg141655#msg141655 Anyway not sure if you will get the network performance you want for pfSense using emulated network interfaces, unless using virtio with pfSense maybe? but no idea if that would be easy... maybe esxi would be better for such setup if you hardware is ok for that... I wondered if I needed to "add" it to the unraid/linux setup before VB would see it. Thank you for the link! Trying to use the resources on my unraid box before I put it on a bare metal box. Link to comment
aptalca Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 got it to work some how.. will post the detail in a bit... ----------EDIT------------ VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null Running this, then restarting vboxwebsrv worked so i guess it's something to do with authentication/permission? Followed directions on lainie's website and had issues, but this is what fixed it. Lainie, perhaps you should add the "changing user and pass to root and pass in config.php" and also the above "setproperty websrvauth. . .etc." to the instructions on your website because the instructions actually tell users to leave the config.php as is, where it should be modified with the root password thanks Link to comment
theone Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I did not change root pass. The only thing I have to do was uncomment the onAuth="true" parameter and run "VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null" Since then haven't had any permission issues. Link to comment
aptalca Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Thanks for your input. I haven't tried just the setproperty. . .null trick, because I first changed the user and password, and then added the setproperty. . .null. And it worked. I guess I could have saved myself a step. Link to comment
hoek Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I know I am really being lazy here but your packages have worked flawlessly for me from day 1 and I will probably just screw something up if I build it. If you happen to get time to build an updated package for RC11 that would be fantastic. Really appreciate your efforts lainie. Thanks. Link to comment
lainie Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 I noticed RC11 came out several days ago. I thought I would have time to do it one night earlier this week, but have been busier than I expected. I should have some time this weekend. Apologies for the delay... it will be available soon. Link to comment
AndrewT Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Lainie, perhaps you should add the "changing user and pass to root and pass in config.php" and also the above "setproperty websrvauth. . .etc." to the instructions on your website I did not change root pass. The only thing I have to do was uncomment the onAuth="true" parameter and run "VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null" Our phpVbox leader Lanie can affirm, but you have both described the two different approaches to get the install up and running. Either fix the root unraid user/pw or comment the prompt out altogether. Link to comment
peter_sm Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Is it possible to connect to a physical drive (cache disk) from phhvitutalbox, going to set up a Slackware 64bit..... //Peter Link to comment
hoek Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Peter, if you mean assign an entire physical drive to a VM then yes. I've been using a usb 3.0 drive connected to VM for some time with no issues so far. It is however not mounted in unraid or anywhere else so not sure if you can get away with sharing it while the VM is booted up. Probably depends on the file system. example: vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename hdd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdX Lainie, thanks again. And no need to apologize! Link to comment
jangjong Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 AND another thing to think about is.. does 64 bit OS work on this vbox package? unRAID is 32 bit machine... I don't know too much about linux system so i can't say for sure, but is it possible to run 64bit Guest OS under 32 bit Host OS? Link to comment
JonathanM Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 AND another thing to think about is.. does 64 bit OS work on this vbox package? unRAID is 32 bit machine... I don't know too much about linux system so i can't say for sure, but is it possible to run 64bit Guest OS under 32 bit Host OS? Yes provided your underlying hardware is capable. Link to comment
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