Cobbler on Natty Alpha 3

[Jamie McDonald]

Afternoon,

Perhaps everyone knows this but I've had trouble getting Cobbler to work
correctly on 10.04 LTS. I spoke with someone on IRC and they said alot of
effort had been going into Cobbler for Natty.

As a result I tried to get it working under Natty Alpha 3 in a VM and found
the Web UI did not work correctly using the default package.

I've outlined the steps required to make it work in the hope it might help
someone else.

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Cobbler inital config on natty-alpha3
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apt-get install cobbler
a2enmod proxy_http
cd /etc/apache2/conf.d
ln -s /etc/cobbler/cobbler_web.conf cobbler_web.conf

Edit cobbler_web.conf and comment out line 9 so it reads
 -------------------------------------------------
 #CustomLog logs/access_log combined env=!dontlog
 -------------------------------------------------

cd /var/www
rm cobbler_webui_content
ln -s /usr/share/cobbler/webroot/cobbler_webui_content/
cobbler_webui_content

##################################
Configure cobbler to allow logins
##################################
Edit /etc/cobbler/modules.conf

Change the line which reads
 -----------------
  [authentication]
  module = authn_denyall
 -----------------

So that it actually says

 -----------------
  [authentication]
  module = authn_configfile
 -----------------

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Now add a user
###############
htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" myusername

#####################
Restart all services
#####################
service apache2 stop
service cobbler stop
service apache2 start
service apache2 start



I've also posted this as a bug for the package in Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cobbler/+bug/741661

I hope this is the correct procedure? It's my first bug report so please let
me know if I should do things differently in the future.


Regards,

Jamie.
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