can kolab conflict with egw ?

JOYDEEP j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org
Fri Dec 15 14:03:30 CET 2006


wow , this is a wonderful tutorial. let me do some more study and I'll
come back
to you.
Thanks a LOT.

Ger Apeldoorn wrote:
> No problem, i'll try to explain properly.
>
> Normally, you cannot have two identical services on the same server because a 
> process listens to a specific port. 
> For instance, http servers listen to port 80 on all ip-adresses.
> If one is already listening you can try to start the second but it will 
> complain that the address is already in use because it cannot listen to the 
> port it desires.
>
> You can do several things to circumvent this problem:
> 1) stop (and disable) the other (egw) services before you start the kolab 
> services
> 2) give the egw services (or the kolab services) other ports
> 3) add a virtual network interface with its own ipaddress to your server and 
> configure ALL egw and kolab services to bind to their own ip-address only.
> 4) use Xen or VMWare to install a virtual server and install kolab there
> 5) buy an extra server
>
> 1) is the easiest part but egw will not be available (for testing?)
> 2) will probably break things and if not, the clients must use another 
> portnumber (not the default one which are mostly preconfigured in mailclients 
> etc) to connect to the services like IMAP and LDAP
> 3) is probably the best solution if you want to run egw and kolab on the same 
> server but will require some knowledge and faq-reading
> 4) I dont have any experience with Xen, but VMWare is pretty easy and free (as 
> in beer).
> 5) this will cost you money... :)
>
> If you select an option, perhaps i can help you further.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ger Apeldoorn
>
>
>
> Op vrijdag 15 december 2006 13:23, schreef JOYDEEP:
>   
>> I am afraid to say the concept is not very clear to me.
>> may be due to my lack of knowledge.
>>
>> but what if we change the apache, imap and ldap of kolab to work with
>> diferent port
>> than that of egw ?
>>
>> I am also like to understand the solution u have provided ?
>> could you kindly provide some more info ?
>>
>> thaks for your kind response.
>>
>> Ger Apeldoorn wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, it probably will.. They use the same ports. You can add another
>>> ipaddress to the server and make each service listen to only that
>>> address.
>>>
>>> Ger Apeldoorn.
>>>
>>> Op vrijdag 15 december 2006 11:58, schreef JOYDEEP:
>>>       
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> Like to ask one thing. does imap and ldap of kolab will conflict with
>>>> the existing IMAP and LDAP required for my egw ?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
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