Hi,
I tried installing like you suggested.
1. Launched centos AWS instance
2. Disabled all that needs to be disabled
3. Installed using package manager
4. Tried opening the web configurator
I got a website could not be reached screen (same as my initial email)
Regards,
Muralidhar
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Louis Munro via PacketFence-users <
packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Jul 12, 2017, at 02:57, Muralidhar BG <muralidhar...@cumulations.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Where in the documentation does it say that?
>>
>>
> Link: https://packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Administration_
> Guide.html#_system_requirements
>
> Under section 3.1:
> "In this guide, we assume that all those components are running on the
> same server (i.e., "localhost" or "127.0.0.1") that PacketFence will be
> installed on.
>
>
>
> Mmm...
> That is somewhat ambiguous, I admit.
> This is meant to indicate that while in some configuration the services
> may be decoupled and run on separate servers/VMs, for the purposes of the
> guide they are assumed to all run on the same host.
> You are not meant to install them. Installing the packetfence package will
> take care of that as you have found.
>
>
>
>
>> What I have observed is that if I do not install these dependencies
>> before have the packetfence package installs them. But then again I get an
>> error message with mysql after installation (as mentioned in my initial
>> email)
>>
>>
>> That is the point of using a package manager such as yum.
>>
>>
> I understand how a package manager works. But the problem I am facing is
> starting the mysql instace once packetfence is installed. I used the
> command:
>
> $ sudo systemctl start mysqld
>
> I got the following error: Failed to start mysqld.service: Unit is masked.
>
> What is the first thing I need to do right after installing packetfence to
> view the web configuration page?
>
>
>
> You don't have to start mysql.
> Just start configuring by logging on to the configurator web app at
> https://$HOST:1443/ <https://$host:1443/>
>
> See section 9 here:
> https://packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Administration_
> Guide.html#_configuration
>
>
> Don't overthink this.
> You are meant to just install the packetfence package.
> Systemd will start the required services on it's own.
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Louis Munro
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