[ZendTo] ANNOUNCE: ZendTo beta released

[Jules]

Folks,

I have been spending the past few weeks/months getting ZendTo sorted out.
I have *hopefully* fixed the security vulnerabilities that anyone has 
told me about. So you out there with pen-testing tendencies, please do 
have a go at the new version and let me know what you find!

The most major thing is I have written a new installer for ZendTo, 
instead of trying to maintain VM images.
I find most people these days need to put it into an otherwise bare 
server image prepared by someone in their IT department. Trying to start 
from a VM image, and then trying to shoehorn in all your corporate setup 
round it was a pain.
As was installing it by hand with just the rpm/deb file.

So now there is a shiny new installer. It assumes a bare server system 
to start with, logged in as root.
I have tested it on
     CentOS 5
     CentOS 6
     CentOS 7
     RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
     RedHat Enterprise Linux 6
     RedHat Enterprise Linux 7
     Ubuntu Server 14
     Ubuntu Server 16

It installs all the necessary software, entirely automatically rebuilds 
PHP to support big uploads (where necessary), sets up ClamAV, mail 
delivery, SELinux, AppArmor, Apache, usage stats, pretty much everything.

It talks to you throughout the process, and will ask you the odd 
question. If you want to pause, just Ctrl-S it. If you want to re-run 
bits of it, you can run any of the 8 components individually, no problem 
at all. Take a look round the structure, it's very straightforwards (but 
non-trivial to write!). When you want to update PHP, for example, just 
re-run the component that rebuilds PHP. It will work out the latest 
versions for itself.

SQLite3 is now the default database to use, as it's by far the easiest 
and simplest and works on everything except CentOS/RedHat 5.

To get started: download, unpack and run the installer with
     curl -O http://zend.to/files/install.ZendTo.tgz
     tar xzf install.ZendTo.tgz
     cd install.ZendTo
     ./install.sh

It will fetch the deb/rpm file as appropriate. But if you just want the 
deb/rpm and nothing else, they are in
     http://zend.to/files/zendto-4.19-1.noarch.rpm
     http://zend.to/files/zendto_4.19-1.deb
     http://zend.to/files/ZendTo-4.19-1.tgz
The file at
     http://zend.to/files/ZendTo-Version
will tell you the latest version number (during the beta test).

P.S. If you've walked through the installer the slow way, and want to 
run it quickly with no questions at all, add '--defaults' to the command 
line of either ./install.sh or any of its components.

Please do tell me how you get on! Any questions/queries/problems, get in 
touch on this list.

Cheers, and Happy Christmas!

Jules

-- 
Julian Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng

'One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth
  doing is what we do for others.' - Lewis Carroll

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