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PACC project report 1

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0200

My and Asset’s task for the first few weeks of the PACC research was to assemble, configure and run the Synology Diskstation DS413j. (). Initially we had 5 of them, each having 4 hard drives 4GB each.

Owncloud Week 6 Report

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200

This week I worked on configuration of owncloud on Debian.

At first I tried to set it up on Nginx and Mysql, but following the tutorials, I faced various problems during the actual configuration. I tried installation of the LNMP first and then owncloud:

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
apt-get install nginx
/etc/init.d/nginx start
mkdir /var/www
chown www-data:www-data /var/www

apt-get install php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-ming php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl
nano /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
(uncomment the line cgi.fix_pathinfo=1:)
apt-get install lighttpd
update-rc.d -f lighttpd remove
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -g www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid
nano /etc/rc.local
(add before the exit line /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -g www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid)
nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
(change to worker_processes 5; keepalive_timeout 2;)
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

See this tutorial for further configuration of the server: (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-debian-squeeze) Try out http://192.168.0.100/info.php Tutorial for owncloud installation (http://www.howtoforge.com/running-owncloud3-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.10) Then I tried to install owncloud over it, however, there was problem re-configuring the default webserver.

Owncloud Week 5 report

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200

This week I tried to install and configure the Open Xchange, however following official tutorials, as well as other specialists’ guides, I was not able to configure it properly, since at the time, when the OX is trying to connect to the server and create user, it reports that there is an Authentication failure. Then I tried to install OX from Quick Installation Script, however I still wasn’t able to configure and run OX as it was intended. (http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quickinstall_script)
I successfully installed Seafile 1.5.0 on Debian 6. Previously I tried to install the newest version, however there was some bug, since the installer didn’t recognize the presence of the python-simplejson, which was needed for further steps, complaining that there is still no one, however, it was installed already, re-installed and even updated. Then I tried the older version and it worked properly. Evaluation: I don’t consider Seafile as a good alternative to Owncloud, since even if it has such option as folder encryption, which protects user’s data from being viewed by the server admin, Seafile lacks functionality - no easy-to-upload interface, since you first need to create workspace and only then to upload files. It doesn’t have calendar, to-dos and other in-built apps.
I tried to setup Owncloud on Debian+nginxs+mysql, however pre-installation of LNMP and then reconfiguring owncloud to work with it, gave no result.

Owncloud Week 4 Report

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200

In order to test alternatives to owncloud, VirtualBox with Debian was installed. I plan to test there Owncloud running on Nginx+Mysql combination, since the main server in our lab is running on Debian. I am also planning to install Seafile and OX, in order to research which of the following cloud services is a better solution to our project. Now I am facing the problem of the OX server authentification, need to resolve this, and continue the configuration. Information on Ajaxplorer: http://ajaxplorer.info/ Here is the link to the OX installation tutorial http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_Debian_6.0_622

Weekly meeting July,2 2013

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Professor Norbisrath:

Trying to get extra hard drives

Shyrailym:

Contacted the Baadal development group in India, wants to set up a system here. System however is not finished yet, but some of its features could be very useful, for instance KVM.
Partially help Android department

Raushan:

Owncloud Week 2 Report

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Mobile application:

Owncloud official app requires installation of aCal, CardDav and other programms to provide functionality to the app, such as calendar, contacts and tasks synchronization. However, this is not direct sync with default mobile calendar, but rather with aCal’s calendar, which is a bit useless.
Other 3rd party clients are under development and also require additional app installation.
Solution: It would be better to connect to owncloud via browser, or process it so as to produce the mobile version (as Damir said, it is one of the three methods of creating mobile apps).

Backup: I have started searching for possible backup options:

Owncloud server and client installation

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Week 1 report:

-created server for owncloud and several users -installed clients on Ubuntu, Windows and Android -test and evaluate it

Create server:

For xUbuntu 12.10 run the following as root:

Starting internship

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Hello everyone, my name is Aset. I am an intern at NU Private Academic Cloud Computing project. I plan to work for about 5-6 hours a day.

My research topics:

Starting PACC Internship

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Hello everyone,

My name is Kamila and I am an intern of the NU Private Academic Cloud Computing project.

I plan to work for about 7-8 hours a day, partially at home.