[ZendTo] ANNOUNCE: ZendTo beta released

[Jules]

I've just posted an announcement and a new page of information on the 
web site too.

This page contains the low-down:
     http://zend.to/beta.php

Cheers,
Jules.


On 18/12/2016 19:24, Jules wrote:
> 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
>

Jules

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