![]() ![]() To get it to play nice with the host machine you are going to need Samba installed. Okay, first of all Linux straight out of the box isn't terribly interested in windows networks. I believe the login details should be those you specified during the installation process (root/).ġ) Get access to the files on the appliance in a sensible wayĢ) Get a working rails site up and running. The Webmin address is the other important address. Check you can get to it from the host machine. NOTE, this site looks like part of the configuration system - it has two buttons in the middle of the screen (this confused me for ages, thinking I couldn't find the example site). The first two are the addresses for the default Apache rails site on the box. The addresses you see on the screen are the various ways you talk to the box. So, the installation process leaves you at a blue text dialog with a bunch of web addresses. You edit files on a share on the appliance which maps to the rails application directory (/var/There, simple. ![]() You then configure the appliance partly on the Linux command line, and also via Webmin - a rather nice web management console. After a fairly straight-forward installation process you are left hanging on a strange blue text dialog. ![]() You attach the appliance CD to the virtual environment of your choice (I recommend Virtual Box), and boot it. Shift+page-up/page-down pages the console and allows you to see all that stuff that went off the top. I am probably missing huge implications here, but from a lost Windows users point of view, this helps. This seems to work, (no one told me to do this, so ymmv). If when you log in on one of these consoles with an account other than root (you create them later), all you get is a $ as a prompt. This allows you to run the rails built in server on one console and still execute rails commands on another. You can switch to other consoles at any time by using Alt+F1. Please note this is not intended to be a how to guide to linux (my entire Linux knowledge can fit onto a small Wiki page.), rather a fix for the major pain points I encountered working with the Appliance. Fear not, others have survived the installation process, and some have even gone on to live full and fulfilling lives. As a windows user, the Linux environment is a pretty alien and hostile place. ![]()
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