1 Topic by schnappi (edited by schnappi 2015-02-27 01:26:35)

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Topic: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

A heads up.

As of 2/26/14 when running a manual update (sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade) on a 0.9.0 iRedMail server running apache on Ubtuntu 14 LTS the nginx package is defaulting to be installed.

If one proceeds with the install apache will show errors on startup and nginx will replace apache (which some probably don't want).

Been testing this program for the last couple of days and although personally prefer apache to nginx (apache 2.4 largely catches up with nginx in many ways in terms of speed and nginx is "freemium") this issue above is probably a good reason why only one web server should be supported by default in iRedMail going forward.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

By the way though one could probably fix this pretty easily even if nginx installs by changing the ports it is listening on.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Thanks for sharing this

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Wonder if those who had nginx installed had the same issue with apache being forced to be installed...

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

We did not. Running 14.04.1, running NGinx Exclusively, removed Apache Months back, it has not returned due to latest update. Must be exclusive to Apache only setups.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

A iRedMail server running nginx on Ubuntu 14 just did the same thing (installed Apache) when using "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade".

Anyone have an explanation or experiencing the same issue?

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Is it possible a Ubuntu packaging issue?

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Probably but if the iRedMail script only dealt with one web server it would most likely resolve the issue.

Anyhow people need to be careful to read before they update a production server running Ubuntu or will have to fix this issue manually.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Do you running iRedMail-0.9.0? iRedMail-0.9.0 will install both Apache and Nginx, so it's normal if it upgrades Nginx.
But if you're running iRedMail-0.8.7 or earlier releases, it might be a packaging issue on ubuntu.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

The problem is that it messes up alias if you proceed with the upgrade (for example https://theserver/iredadmin doesn't work but https://theserver/mail does).

Additionally both web servers try to start on port 80 after the upgrade (which is a ton of fun to fix)!

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Here is a screenshot of what occurs on a standard (non-customized) Ubuntu 14 LTS iRedMail server running nginx after running "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade" and installing the apache packages. As stated in the original post the same thing also occurred on a standard server running apache (nginx was installed).

Moral of the story. Until iRedMail adopts a single web server be careful what packages you allow to install when updating a production server.

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

7t3chguy wrote:

We did not. Running 14.04.1, running NGinx Exclusively, removed Apache Months back, it has not returned due to latest update. Must be exclusive to Apache only setups.

Does anyone have notes or a guide on changing apache to nginx specific for iRed ?
I would like to upgrade my release but am a bit nervious it will break my build..

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

Just install NGinx yourself, uwsgi, php5-fpm and then copy the relevant configs from Zhangs BitBucket

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Re: Ubuntu 14 LTS forced nginx installation

cre8r wrote:

Does anyone have notes or a guide on changing apache to nginx specific for iRed ?
I would like to upgrade my release but am a bit nervious it will break my build..

To upgrade ubuntu release, it's better to stay with Apache first, when you have all services running well, starting to migrate from Apache to Nginx.

Actually, it's just some nginx config files you need to copy (and replace some placeholder variables in config files).