You want to test your website at your home and before setting it up on a real server ?
You want access your home machine from outside ?
You want to stimulate a real web site without loosing a penny ?
You have a decent connection and lot of time to test things out ?

Lets setup a home webserver with dyndns , ddclient and nginx

Overview

1. Setting up a subdomain that points to your machine
2. Setting up a Update Client ( using : ddclient )
3. A basic webserver installation ( using : nginx since it is really light on system)

Requirements

• An ubuntu machine ( You can install any other Linux distro you are comfortable with)
• A working stable Internet connection
• Dyndns account ( You can get a free one from http://dyndns.com )

Installation &  configuration

Step 1
Dyndns account registration and subdomain setup

a. Register a dyndns account ( http://dyndns.com )
b. login to the account
c. setup a subdomain , you can do this as below

My Account >> Add Host Services >>
Hostname : Select a domain and provide a hostname ( this will be used to access your home machine )
Service type : Host with IP address
IP address : Click on the link “Your current location’s IP address is x.x.x.x”
Select services and devices you would like to use with this hostname : webserver , ssh
Add to Cart >> Next >> Active services

1) Overview

User/Group Synchronization of OpenLdap and Alfresco servers.
Two servers deployed with openldap and alfresco ( Installation method :: Jumpbox)
2) Objective

• Full Users/Groups Synchronization from OpenLdap to Alfresco with a hourly cron
• Differential Synchronization of Users/Groups when ever the alfresco server is restarted
• User Account Synchronization when ever a new user attempts login

3) Configuration overview

User type :: PosixAccount
Group type :: PosixGroup
User base :: ou=example,dc=com ( only users under ou example will be imported )
Group base :: ou=example,dc=com ( only groups under ou example will be imported )
Full Sync Interval :: Hourly
Login id :: cn ( users should login to alfreso/share with the cn )

5) Configuration done on alfresco server

Step 1
Main property file

Add the below line to the end of the file

root@home:~# /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,ldap1:ldap
#Sync Settings
synchronization.synchronizeChangesOnly=false
synchronization.syncOnStartup=true
synchronization.syncWhenMissingPeopleLogIn=true
synchronization.import.cron=0 0 * * * ?

Step 2
root@home:~# mkdir -p /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap1

Step 3

Configuring common-ldap-context.xml, ldap-authentication.properties, ldap-authentication-context.xml

root@home:~# cp -p  /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication-context.xml /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap1/

root@home:~# cp -p /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/common-ldap-context.xml /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/

root@home:~# vi /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap1/ldap-authentication.properties

ldap.authentication.active=true
ldap.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false
ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=cn=%s,ou=example,dc=com
ldap.authentication.java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://ldap_server_ip:389
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=simple
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInBind=false
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInUid=false
ldap.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=admin
ldap.synchronization.active=true
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.authentication=simple
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=cn=Admin,dc=com
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=secret
ldap.synchronization.queryBatchSize=1000
ldap.synchronization.groupQuery=(objectclass=posixGroup)
ldap.synchronization.groupDifferentialQuery=(&(objectclass=posixGroup)(!(modifyTimestamp<={0})))
ldap.synchronization.personQuery=(objectclass=posixAccount)
ldap.synchronization.personDifferentialQuery=(&(objectclass=posixAccount)(!(modifyTimestamp<={0})))
ldap.synchronization.groupSearchBase=ou=example,dc=com
ldap.synchronization.userSearchBase=ou=example,dc=Directory
ldap.synchronization.modifyTimestampAttributeName=modifyTimestamp
ldap.synchronization.timestampFormat=yyyyMMddHHmmss’Z’
ldap.synchronization.userIdAttributeName=uid
ldap.synchronization.userFirstNameAttributeName=givenName
ldap.synchronization.userLastNameAttributeName=sn
ldap.synchronization.userEmailAttributeName=mail
ldap.synchronization.userOrganizationalIdAttributeName=o
ldap.synchronization.defaultHomeFolderProvider=userHomesHomeFolderProvider
ldap.synchronization.groupIdAttributeName=cn
ldap.synchronization.groupType=posixGroup
ldap.synchronization.personType=posixAccount
ldap.synchronization.groupMemberAttributeName=memberUid
ldap.synchronization.enableProgressEstimation=true

Please make sure to provide proper LDAP server IP, login and  with the directives

ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://ldap_server_ip:389
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=cn=Admin,dc=com
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=secret
ldap.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=admin

Step 4
Log configuration

Add the following lines to the end of the given file

root@home:~# vi /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterJob=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.importer.ExportSourceImporter=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap=debug

Step 5

Stop/Start alfresco
root@home:~# /etc/init.d/alfresco stop
root@home:~# /etc/init.d/alfresco start

This is a short tutorial on how you can install softwares from packages of tar.gz or tar.bz2 extension.

Basically 5 steps

1) Uncompress  and Extract Packages

for ‘tar.gz’   — >

yo@home:~$ tar -zxvf package_name.tar.gz

for ‘tar.bz2’ —– >

yo@home:~$ tar -jxvf package_name.tar.bz2

2) Change to the extracted directory

yo@home:~$ cd package_name

yo@home:~/package_name$

3) Configuring

yo@home:~/package_name$ ./configure

This creates a MakeFile which is the needed for the next step, which is building.( Make sure that no errors are reported while configuring so as to move to the next step.)

4) Building

yo@home:~/package_name$ make

5) Installing

You need to be the root user to install the software.

yo@home:~/package_name$ su –

Password:

root@home:~/package_name# make install

The above command will install the desired software to the default location if everything goes fine. 🙂

To uninstall

As root execute the following command

root@home:~/package_name# make uninstall