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On 14/05/18 11:35, Eion MacDonald via list wrote:
I think the Terminal window is telling you what IP the server is set up on. It really needs to be a free IP in your network's subnet.To DC Lug members, Dear folk, 20180514 Virtual Box and web browser operated software 'CaseBox' for a charity. Can anyone advise me on correct use of VirtualBox as a 'localhost' server? Situation: I have offered to help a charity who act as advocates/legal help to ex servicemen in disputes with UK Government departments. They need a 'case management' software for use by their lawyer and social workers. Currently cases are only stored in lawyer's MS Outlook as 'files'/'local folders' but with over 80 cases in action this is unwieldy and I was asked what could be used to help. Such 'case management software' is available as paid for monthly service using a web browser input. (Costs roughly from Â100 upwards per month, almost no limit once 'trapped' inside a specific service, it appears). They would of course need to set up a domain and hosting for the 'case management software'. Currently they run a 'static' website with their information and a contact page. A free opensource solution is available, from searches I find some legal charities in USA are using the free software, on CentOS based servers. It was originally used to give this type of software to Humanitarian Organisations, but is now available as 'opensource software' for a Linux CentOS Server solution. Link: https://www.casebox.org/ HURIDOCS (Humanitarian Organisation's CaseBox hosting and support). Another company gives commercial support for CaseBox outside the specialised "Humanitarian Field' refer: https://www.ketse.com/ Before going into detail with the charity, I would like to run a trial on a server within my own Linux Box using VirtualBox; [OpenSUSE, i7, 16Gb RAM running from 128GB USB key as dual boot on original Windows 10 box]. There is a VirtualBox OVF file available. I have not been able to make it work. A big 'not' after many tries both as imported OVF over the last 3 weeks and trying to build a CentOS web server in VirtualBox. Problem. I have no knowledge of servers or Virtual Box using servers to set up a local demonstration. Only experience of 'localhost' server was originally 12 years ago with XAMPP on a Windows box before setting up two Joomla! sites on hosted server. I have run many 'trial runs' of Linux distros in Virtual Box, but never a server so have no experience or use knowledge of servers. I need some help to try this software. "Frustrated" after many unsuccessful trials over three weeks and much reading but obtained little knowledge or results. Refer: YouTube video on the software, illustrates the software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQK8PBou-Y Welcome to CASEBOX â a case management system, where you can log and track all your cases, work on them collaboratively from remote instances and share information with colleagues, export results, record and list tasks and assign people, establish users and set roles and permissions, explore the chronology of cases through the case graph and establish complex searches and analysis according to your need. They also have a set up instructions for 'proper Linux users' on a web page; refer https://www.casebox.org/dev/install/ I do not have enough knowledge to use this. If I set up (import) the OVF file and its components I get a VirtualBox that asks on start in a terminal window. Copy of text in terminal. I have tried to adjust "/etc/hosts" in the root account of CentOS by adding 10.0.2.15 your domain.com as an extra line above last line, but this appear to achieve nothing. I do not know what I am doing to adjust '/etc/hosts' . I need explanation of what I should do. copy of Terminal text in VirtualBox CentOS release 6 (final) Kernel 2.6.32-431.20.3.e1.i686 on an i686 IP address 10.0.2.15 ---------------------- Add yourdomain.com with the above IP address in your host file Open URL 'https://yourdomain.com/demo' see 'https://www.casebox.org/try' for demo login/pass Root Account root/casebox SSH login pass root/casebox yourdomain login: End of copy of text in terminal. I have tried to adjust "/etc/hosts" in the root account of CentOS by adding "10.0.2.15 your domain.com" as an extra line before first line and above last line, but this appears to achieve nothing. I do not know what I am doing to adjust '/etc/hosts' or to get the trial website 'CaseBox' working locally in VirtualBox. Please, can this very ignorant of servers and VirtualBox person ask for help. Ultimately I need, if the charity likes the CaseBox idea to get them to set up a domain and hosting for it for their lawyer and social workers to use to input records and case stuff via a browser webpage access. Please, any guidance would be most beneficial. Regards, Eion MacDonald
Using the Virtualbox Manager, open the VM's settings and navigate to the Network Settings. What do you have there? I tend to set it to attach as a "Bridged" adaptor. I then log into the the server and edit the network settings to give it a static IP that matches my subnet - on Ubuntu it's /etc/network/interfaces (I don't know what it would be for CentOS)
You should then be able to access the web interface for your software using the IP address you set up. If you want to map this to a hostname, edit the hosts file on your parent OS (not the VM).
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