Open-xChange App Suite on Debian Plesk 12

[Arexx]

Dear all,

I have a VPS hostet by Strato. I am sure that a struggle at a very easy position.

I used the installation Guide "http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_Debian_7.0" and have problems with the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/proxy_http.conf"
because there is no folder called conf.d in apache2. So I found a folder called "/etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d" and stroed the file there.

After this I changed the httpd.conf file in /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/conf.

#ATTENTION!
#
#DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY,
#SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED.
#IF YOU REQUIRE TO APPLY CUSTOM MODIFICATIONS, PERFORM THEM IN THE FOLLOWING FILES:
#/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/conf/vhost.conf
#/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/conf/vhost_ssl.conf
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

        <VirtualHost 81.169.181.156:443 >
                ServerName "mail.domain.de:443"
                ServerAlias "www.mail.domain.de"
                ServerAlias "ipv4.mail.domain.de"
                ServerAdmin "mail@yves-bork.de"
                UseCanonicalName Off

                DocumentRoot "/var/www"
                CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/logs/access_ssl_log plesklog
                ErrorLog "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/logs/error_log"

                <IfModule mod_suexec.c>
                        SuexecUserGroup "yvesbork" "psacln"
                </IfModule>

                <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
                        UserDir "/var/www/vhosts/domain.de/web_users"
                </IfModule>

                <IfModule mod_sysenv.c>
                        SetSysEnv PP_VHOST_ID "d4ecd1f7-3321-4620-a010-50267cdad856"
                </IfModule>

                ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/var/www/vhosts/domain.de/mail.domain.de/cgi-bin/"

                Alias "/plesk-stat" "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics"
                <Location  /plesk-stat/>
                        Options +Indexes
                </Location>
                <Location  /plesk-stat/logs/>
                        Require valid-user
                </Location>
                Alias /webstat /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics/webstat
                Alias /webstat-ssl /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics/webstat-ssl
                Alias /ftpstat /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics/ftpstat
                Alias /anon_ftpstat /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics/anon_ftpstat
                Alias /awstats-icon /usr/share/awstats/icon

                SSLEngine on
                SSLVerifyClient none
                SSLCertificateFile /opt/psa/var/certificates/certzeA471V

                SetEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_INI /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/etc/php.ini
                SetEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_CGI_INDEX fastcgi

                <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                        FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_INI /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/etc/php.ini
                        FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_CGI_INDEX fastcgi
                        FcgidMaxRequestLen 134217728
                </IfModule>

                <Directory /var/www>

                        <IfModule mod_python.c>
                                <Files ~ (\.py$)>
                                        SetHandler python-program
                                        PythonHandler mod_python.cgihandler
                                </Files>
                        </IfModule>
                        <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                        FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_INI /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/etc/php.ini
                        FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_CGI_INDEX fastcgi
                        FcgidMaxRequestLen 134217728
                </IfModule>

                <Directory /var/www>

                        <IfModule mod_python.c>
                                <Files ~ (\.py$)>
                                        SetHandler python-program
                                        PythonHandler mod_python.cgihandler
                                </Files>
                        </IfModule>
                        <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                                <Files ~ (\.fcgi$)>
                                        SetHandler fcgid-script
                                        Options +ExecCGI
                                </Files>
                        </IfModule>
                        <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                                <Files ~ (\.php$)>
                                        SetHandler fcgid-script
                                        FCGIWrapper /var/www/cgi-bin/cgi_wrapper/cgi_wrapper .php
                                        Options +ExecCGI
                                </Files>
                        </IfModule>
                       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                       AllowOverride None
                       Order allow,deny
                        allow from all
                        RedirectMatch ^/$ /appsuite/

                        SSLRequireSSL

                        Options -Includes +ExecCGI

                </Directory>
                       <Directory /var/www/appsuite>
               Options None +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
               AllowOverride Indexes FileInfo
       </Directory>

                <Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.de/web_users>

                        <IfModule mod_php4.c>
                                php_admin_flag engine off
                        </IfModule>

                        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
                                php_admin_flag engine off
                        </IfModule>

                </Directory>

                <Directory /var/www/vhosts/mail.domain.de>
                        Options +FollowSymLinks
                </Directory>

                <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics">
                        AuthType Basic
                        AuthName "Domainstatistiken"
                        AuthUserFile "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/pd/d..httpdocs@plesk-stat"
                        require valid-user
                </Directory>
                <IfModule mod_security2.c>
                </IfModule>

        </VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

<VirtualHost 81.169.181.156:80 >
        ServerName "mail.domain.de:80"
        ServerAlias "www.mail.domain.de"
        ServerAlias "ipv4.mail.domain.de"
        ServerAdmin "mail@yves-bork.de"
        UseCanonicalName Off

        DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/domain.de/mail.domain.de"
        CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/logs/access_log plesklog
        ErrorLog "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/logs/error_log"

        <IfModule mod_suexec.c>
                SuexecUserGroup "yvesbork" "psacln"
        </IfModule>

        <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
                UserDir "/var/www/vhosts/domain.de/web_users"
        </IfModule>

        <IfModule mod_sysenv.c>
                SetSysEnv PP_VHOST_ID "d4ecd1f7-3321-4620-a010-50267cdad856"
        </IfModule>

        ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/var/www/vhosts/domain.de/mail.domain.de/cgi-bin/"

        Redirect permanent /plesk-stat https://mail.domain.de/plesk-stat
        Redirect permanent /webstat https://mail.domain.de/webstat
        Redirect permanent /webstat-ssl https://mail.domain.de/webstat-ssl
        Redirect permanent /ftpstat https://mail.domain.de/ftpstat
        Redirect permanent /anon_ftpstat https://mail.domain.de/anon_ftpstat
        Redirect permanent /awstats-icon https://mail.domain.de/awstats-icon

        <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
                SSLEngine off
        </IfModule>

        SetEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_INI /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/etc/php.ini
        SetEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_CGI_INDEX fastcgi

        <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_INI /var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/etc/php.ini
                FcgidInitialEnv PP_CUSTOM_PHP_CGI_INDEX fastcgi
                FcgidMaxRequestLen 134217728
        </IfModule>

        <Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.de/mail.domain.de>

                <IfModule mod_python.c>
                        <Files ~ (\.py$)>
                                SetHandler python-program
                                PythonHandler mod_python.cgihandler
                        </Files>
                </IfModule>
                <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                        <Files ~ (\.fcgi$)>
                                SetHandler fcgid-script
                                Options +ExecCGI
                        </Files>
                </IfModule>
                <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                        <Files ~ (\.php$)>
                                SetHandler fcgid-script
                                FCGIWrapper /var/www/cgi-bin/cgi_wrapper/cgi_wrapper .php
                                Options +ExecCGI
                        </Files>
                </IfModule>
                                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
                RewriteEngine On
                RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
                RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

                Options -Includes +ExecCGI

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.de/web_users>

                <IfModule mod_php4.c>
                        php_admin_flag engine off
                </IfModule>

                <IfModule mod_php5.c>
                        php_admin_flag engine off
                </IfModule>

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/vhosts/mail.domain.de>
                Options +FollowSymLinks
        </Directory>

        <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/statistics">
                AuthType Basic
                AuthName "Domainstatistiken"
                AuthUserFile "/var/www/vhosts/system/mail.domain.de/pd/d..httpdocs@plesk-stat"
                require valid-user
        </Directory>

        <IfModule mod_security2.c>
        </IfModule>

</VirtualHost> 

This seems to work because when I visite the domain mail.domain.de I got redirectet to appsuite/signin ang get the message "Connection Error - The service is not available right now. Retry". I think this is relatet that the proxy_http.conf didn't work propper!

Please help!

Regards
Arexx

[Arexx]

It was related to Apache 2.4

[Thu Oct 24 09:45:46.159087 2013] [proxy:crit] [pid 1473] AH02432: Cannot find LB Method: byrequests
[Thu Oct 24 09:45:46.204362 2013] [proxy_balancer:emerg] [pid 1473] (22)Invalid argument: AH01183: Cannot share balancer
[Thu Oct 24 09:45:46.204528 2013] [:emerg] [pid 1473] AH00020: Configuration Failed, exiting

After go throw this steps and fine tune the proxy_http.conf it works fine....

Having apache 2.4 at a supported distro is still a way to go. However, here are some changes we need to take care at documentation when describing ox setup. Tested with Debian Jessie.

* etc/conf.d has moved to etc/conf-available. Configuration files can be en/disabled like:
a2enconf ox-proxy_http
a2enconf redirect

* mod_proxy has been refactored, separate lb modules are now available
a2enmod lbmethod_byrequests

Also, it looks like the mod_proxy syntax has been altered with 2.4

<Proxy /ajax>
ProxyPass http://localhost:8009/ajax
</Proxy>

will no longer work, but

<Location /ajax>
ProxyPass http://localhost:8009/ajax
</Location>

and

ProxyPass /ajax http://localhost:8009/ajax

works.