[Attempto] aceWiki server

Nagarjuna G nagarjun at gnowledge.org
Fri Aug 5 18:02:32 CEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Tobias Kuhn <kuhntobias at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nagarjuna,
>
>> I have downloaded and successfully installed the Suse CD image on my
>> GNU/Linux OS as a virtual box.  The image is taken from:
>> http://susegallery.com/a/KDUpLP/acewiki-server#cddvd
>>
>> The system is working fine, but I could not locate any browser client
>> like firefox or even xwindows installed.  Nor could I find an yum
>> package manager.
>
> The appliance is a minimal version of an AceWiki *server*. It deliberately
> contains no GUI packages (no graphical shell or browser).
>
>> I am wondering how could I access the server which I find is already
>> running on port 80.
>
> You should access it from the outside, i.e. from another (virtual or
> physical) computer. The CD image is probably not the best way to use it. I
> would suggest to use VMware or VirtualBox to run it as a virtual machine and
> then to access it from a browser of the host computer. You might need to set
> some parameters to make this work. Here I described what is necessary when
> using VirtualBox:
>
>  https://answers.launchpad.net/acewiki/+question/121205
>

Thanks so much.  that above thread has the answer to my question.
As I understand I have to forward a host port to the port 80 of the
guest OS.  virtual box has a tool to do this.  I will try this on
Monday morning.

Thanks for the great work you guys are doing!
--
Nagarjuna


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