WebCalendar

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: v1

Notes:
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INTRODUCTION - WEBCALENDAR APPLIANCE V1
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This directory contains the files needed for the VMWare WebCalendar Appliance.

This allows you to very quickly have a WebCalendar system setup.  All you
need to do is download this appliance (which you have already done) and
load it into the VMWare Player.

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RUNNING THE APPLIANCE
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In order to run this appliance, you need to have VMWare Player installed.
This is a free product available from VMWare:
	http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

If you don't know what VMWare Player is, read up on it on their website.
It essentially allows you to run another operating system (Linux in this
case) inside of your host operating sytem (usually Microsoft Windows).
So, you can run Linux without having to do any of those nasty things like
repartitioning or reformatting.

Note: When you startup the appliance, there are some warnings about kinit
during the boot process.  You can safely ignore these.  (These are known
bugs/issues with ubuntu.)

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ABOUT THIS APPLIANCE
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This appliance is based on Ubuntu Linux, specifically the 7.04 server
version.  During the installation, the following was specified:

Keyboard: US
Timezone: Eastern
User "webcalendar", password "webcal01"

Installed Software:
  Ubuntu-7.04 Server (Linux 2.6.20)
  Apache 2.2.3
  PHP 5.2.1
  MySQL 5.0.38
  WebCalendar 1.0.5
  phpMyAdmin 2.10.3

The ssh server is enabled, so you can use an ssh client to login to the
appliance (with the "webcalendar" username and "webcal01" password.)
The Apache document directory is /var/www.  So you can alter the web
pages in this directory.
  

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HOW THIS APPLIANCE WAS CREATED (FOR THE CURIOUS)
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1) generated starting vmx file with easyvmx (see above)
2) unzip file downloaded from easyvmx
3) downloaded ubuntu server iso image to this directory
4) change the ide1.1 below to point to the iso image
5) loaded the vmx into VM Player; this will start the ubuntu install
6) installed ubuntu server
7) installed WebCalendar
8) installed phpMyAdmin
9) installed ssh server (not included as part of default)
10) shutdown VM Player, changed back ide1.1 to map to CD-ROM in vmx file

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Craig Knudsen
http://www.k5n.us/webcalapp.php


Changes:
Initial release.