Seafile Installation

Km0201, did you get your uploads working?

Openalf, sorry, I was online last night but think I missed you. So as it stands at the moment you have everything working and you have completed part 3 of guide?.. if you are still having trouble with nginx I would recommend removing and reinstall the nginx plugin if possible. Or remove any servers you have and reboot.

You can uninstall it from the same place you installed it in OMV. I don't think it will completely remove nginx but hopefully it will reset a few things when you reinstall it. I think OMV is built on nginx too so I'm not sure how much the nginx plugin integrates with core nginx of OMV. Without advice from the experts (not me...lol) I wouldn't go purging nginx.

Try this: sudo apt-get purge <package-name>

KM0201, I did a little more googling and people say removing all those MySQL root accounts is not really a good idea cause MySQL still uses them all. Anyway, just in case your interested I found that you can change all the root account passwords in one hit with the following lines.

mysql -u root -p
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('new.password')
WHERE User = 'root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

HTH

Guys,

I'm thinking to create symbolic link from external storage/shared drive to seafile-data folder.
Will that effect anything?

tihn_x7, I'm not sure if that will work, give it go, I reckon it will or it wont but I don't think it will hurt anything.

Here's another question for all. I'm running through my tests for the new guide. I've installed everything as the seafile user and created all the databases but the startup script still only works with the root user. Is this what everyone has in their startup scripts now or does it have to be set to user=seafile?... If I set it to root it just simply doesn't start and I have to start it manually. Can the startup script be left running as root?

When I started the installation, I started as 'root'.
If you started as another user, then you need to change to that username, and update the Seafile installation directory in the script.
The script is looking for this folder name: seafile-server-latest

I've installed this on a new clean virtual machine. I plan on upgrading the tutorial for the seafile installation with its own user. So far I have it working perfectly with all my notes ready to go for the update. My only issue is the startup script wont work with the seafile user, it only works with the root user. I have already updated the startup script with new seafile directory and that's working fine.

I've linked my data drive to /root/seafile/seafile-data but can't find it anywhere on the web interface.

root@server:~/seafile/seafile-data# ls -la
total 28
drwx------ 7 root root 4096 May 31 12:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 May 31 09:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 commits
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 fs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 11:30 httptemp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 May 31 12:47 Shared -> /media/54bf67db-da31-4c50-bb3c-27140944b223/Shared/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 storage
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 11:30 tmpfiles

Zitat von tinh_x7

Try this: sudo apt-get purge <package-name>

Don't do this for nginx. You will not be able to access OMV via browser any more.

Zitat von baldman

I've installed this on a new clean virtual machine. I plan on upgrading the tutorial for the seafile installation with its own user. So far I have it working perfectly with all my notes ready to go for the update. My only issue is the startup script wont work with the seafile user, it only works with the root user. I have already updated the startup script with new seafile directory and that's working fine.

The startup script has to use the seafile user. If it is not running, something else must be wrong. Did you create the seafile user with a home directory?

cat /etc/passwd | grep seafile

The script tries invoke ~seafile/seafile-server-latest/seafile.sh an ~seafile/seafile-server-latest-seahub.sh as this user.

If you send me your notes, I can do a dry-run one a VM tonight / tomorrow.

Zitat von tinh_x7

I've linked my data drive to /root/seafile/seafile-data but can't find it anywhere on the web interface.

Code

root@server:~/seafile/seafile-data# ls -la
total 28
drwx------ 7 root root 4096 May 31 12:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 May 31 09:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 commits
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 fs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 11:30 httptemp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 May 31 12:47 Shared -> /media/54bf67db-da31-4c50-bb3c-27140944b223/Shared/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 31 08:32 storage
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 11:30 tmpfiles

Probably seafile does not, what you expect it to do! Seafile will not give you access to any existing file an the share. Seafile will serve only files uploaded via web gui or seafile client. It uses a binary format to store the data and you will not be able to read the files. On my system it look like this:

root@omv:~# ls -l /media/279518ea-0b44-479f-952f-d549dca76193/seafile/data/
insgesamt 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 seafile seafile 4096 Nov 13  2014 commits
drwxr-xr-x 2 seafile seafile 4096 Nov 13  2014 fs
drwxr-xr-x 2 seafile seafile 4096 Mai 27 18:28 httptemp
drwxr-xr-x 2 seafile seafile 4096 Nov 13  2014 library-template
drwxr-xr-x 5 seafile seafile 4096 Nov 13  2014 storage
drwxr-xr-x 2 seafile seafile 4096 Mai 31 08:53 tmpfiles

Within this folders are the files om my users in a format similar to the one the sorce code management system git is using internally.

I urge you to remove the link before uploading any files, as I do not know what seafile will do with existing files in it's data folder.

I read some online users, they successfully able to accessed their existing data by linking them.
It's worth a try.

Ha ha Zoki, I don't think you'd want my notes, Half of its in my head and the other half in at txt file completely all over the place.. but I do know what it all means..lol

Here's a snippet:
Create folders same as tutorial
Install MySQL
Create user for seafile with: useradd -m -d /srv/seafile -s /bin/false seafile
su - seafile
Install Seafile

Part 3 is the same only change the startup script to include the mysql lines, the user and the seafile directory

Part 4 is the same (using fastcgi=true)

I should mention that depending on the browser you use copying code from this forum can be a nightmare and cause so many installation issues

Another error that I encounter is the seahub.log is not logging.
I also enabled this in the GUI: FREEZE_USER_ON_LOGIN_FAILED

I'm try to setup Fail2Ban...
Anybody in here have this issue?

Zoki, Will creating a user the way i have not work?