Hello,
I'm just trying to make a few suggestions based on my personal
experience in installing and / or upgrading 6.3.0 the opther day. I
think we all want the maximum uptake of this software project, right?
Well, it was so frustrating not to get the web-based installer to work
- that I finally gave up trying to use it. The error too many
redirects from the browser, and the "notinitied" added to the end of
"openmeetings" in the url - (I assume this is java adding this - and I
would love to know what it means) - was a bad experience. Since I
experienced this on firefox, edge and chrome and opera - I feel that
there must be a real problem somewhere - that is going to alienate the
average potential user who tries an install. I don't have the
slightest idea of how to fix it.
As for the terminal command line install - that was very helpful, and
because it threw so many errors because of: 1) my usage of strong
passwords (I forgot that special characters had to be escaped in
bash), and 2) the example wasn't good, and didn't give explanations
about the order of things.
I would urge that the text about this method of installing show a note
that special characters in passwords have to be escaped, with an
example. Shoud they be enclused in single quotation marks, like pass
= 'pass=' or can each special character be escaped as in pass =
pass\= ?
I tried to follow the example (I am not an advanced bash user), and it
ended up giving the password that I use for smtp port 587 emal
authorization as the password of the OpenMeetings admin user! - so the
order of things wasn't clear enough to me. How about listing something
like (as a general guide to first time installers via the command line
that would be sufficient for most purposes, like):
(could someone verify that this is correct, please?): (and give an
illustration of using a password with special characters, please)?
(thanks)
replace every [abcde] with your data, omitting the braces:
./admin.sh -i -v -tz Europe/Berlin -email [admin email address]
-group webbase -user [admin user name] --password [admin user
password] --smtp-server localhost --smtp-port 587 --db-type mysql
--db-name [openmeeting database name] --db-user [openmeetings database
user] --db-pass [openmeetings database password] --email-auth-user
[email user for smtp authentication] --system-email-address [what is
this and why necessary?] --email-use-tls yes --db-user root --db-host
localhost --email-auth-pass [password for smtp authentication]
I think clarifying this guide and fixing the install info so it
works flawlessly first time would really help with profect adoption by
the general webmaster user.
Best regards,
Ed
Quoting Alvaro <zurca...@gmail.com>:
Hello Ed,
Good you got it!
Maxim will answare you.
Best
Alvaro
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:00:28 +0000
i...@bureau-de-poste.net wrote:
Hello Alvaro,
I installed finally with the command line and I think there is a
mistake that soemone might want to correct. I use very strong
passwords with lots of special characters (like ! _ ) = etc) and I had
to remove all the special characters from my passwords in the command.
Is this normal - not accepting special characters in passwords for a
command line install?
Best,
Ed
Quoting Alvaro <zurca...@gmail.com>:
...are you try with java 11 or 17?
It depend your OS.
If Java 17 then try java 11
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On Sun, 03 Jul 2022 10:19:30 +0000
i...@bureau-de-poste.net wrote:
I am having to waste a lot of time with the 6.3.0 install - bno
matter what I do with my browser, I get the error:
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
and the word notinited
is added to the url when I try to go through the web based installer:
as in
https://ipv4:5443/openmeetings [1][1] redirects to
https://ipv4:5443/openmeetings/notinited
I have downloaded completely now browsers, and set them to the most
unsafe settings and to the default settings, I have cleared the
cookies and cache and history ...
This is absurd. Is there a direct path to call the install script ?
Is having coturn installed and / or running during an upgrade - can
that cause this?
I can neither install nor upgrade because of this absurd problem? Why
so may redirects?
Ed
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Links:
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[1] https://ipv4:5443/openmeetings%C2%A0
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Links:
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[1] https://ipv4:5443/openmeetings%C2%A0
