[ZendTo] FW: ANNOUNCE: ZendTo beta released

[Jules]

George,

Oops, sorry about that!

Yes, all the usual packages (rpm, deb, tgz) are all there as well, I 
just forgot to put that bit on the web page.
I've just added links to them all at the bottom of the page.

Do note that there are a couple more settings in preferences.php, so do 
please diff your current one to the new one.
I should write a preferences.php upgrader at some point. I wrote a nice 
one for MailScanner many years ago, and that worked beautifully. I'll 
have to dig out the code some time and see quite how I did it.

Cheers,
Jules.


On 19/12/2016 11:37, Kandalaft George wrote:
> Hello
>
> Thank you for this new version.
> We have a test server for ZendTo (4.12), but:
>
> " So now there is a shiny new installer. It assumes a bare server system to start with, logged in as root."
>
> Does that means that we cannot upgrade and we have to start with a clean server?
>
> Thanks again
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf Of Jules
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 11:14 AM
> To: ZendTo Users
> Subject: Re: [ZendTo] ANNOUNCE: ZendTo beta released
>
> 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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