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Installing Jeta 1.0

Last update:2006-11-24
Revision: 1.11
Contact: dev@lists.horde.org

This document contains instructions for installing Jeta on your system.

Jeta is based on a java SSH client. It allows shell access to your web server, or to another machine if used with a port relay daemon (not provided).

For information on the capabilities and features of Jeta, see the file README in the top-level directory of the Jeta distribution.

1   Obtaining Jeta

Jeta can be obtained from the Horde website and FTP server, at

http://www.horde.org/jeta/

ftp://ftp.horde.org/jeta/

Or use the mirror closest to you:

http://www.horde.org/mirrors.php

Bleeding-edge development versions of Jeta are available via CVS; see the file horde/docs/HACKING in the Horde distribution, or the website http://www.horde.org/source/, for information on accessing the Horde CVS repository.

2   Prerequisites

To function properly, Jeta REQUIRES the following:

  1. A working Horde installation.

    Jeta runs within the Horde Application Framework, a set of common tools for Web applications written in PHP. You must install Horde before before installing Jeta.

    Important

    Jeta requires at least version 3.0 of the Horde Framework - earlier versions of Horde will not work.

    The Horde Framework can be obtained from the Horde website and FTP server, at

    http://www.horde.org/horde/

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/

    Many of Jeta's prerequisites are also Horde prerequisites.

    Important

    Be sure to have completed all of the steps in the horde/docs/INSTALL file for the Horde Framework before installing Jeta.

  2. A running, working SSH server on the web server, supporting SSH version 1 protocol. Jeta requires SSH version 1 protocol at this time. If you have an SSH version 2 server, it must provide SSH version 1 failover.

  3. A relayd server installed, running, and working on the web server IF AND ONLY IF you want to relay to a secondary machine.

3   Installing Jeta

Jeta is written in PHP, and must be installed in a web-accessible directory. The precise location of this directory will differ from system to system. Conventionally, Jeta is installed directly underneath Horde in the web server's document tree.

Since Jeta is written in PHP, there is no compilation necessary; simply expand the distribution where you want it to reside and rename the root directory of the distribution to whatever you wish to appear in the URL. For example, with the Apache web server's default document root of /usr/local/apache/htdocs, you would type:

cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/horde
tar zxvf /path/to/jeta-1.x.tar.gz
mv jeta-1.x jeta

and would then find Jeta at the URL:

http://your-server/horde/jeta/

4   Configuring Jeta

  1. Configuring Horde for Jeta

    1. Register the application

      In horde/config/registry.php, find the applications['jeta'] stanza. The default settings here should be okay, but you can change them if desired. If you have changed the location of Jeta relative to Horde, either in the URL, in the filesystem or both, you must update the fileroot and webroot settings to their correct values.

  2. Configuring Jeta

    To configure Jeta, change to the config/ directory of the installed distribution, and make copies of all of the configuration dist files without the dist suffix:

    cd config/
    for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
    

    Or on Windows:

    copy *.dist *.
    

    Documentation on the format and purpose of those files can be found in each file. You may edit these files if you wish to customize Jeta's appearance and behavior. With one exceptions (backends.php) the defaults will be correct for most sites.

    You must be sure to configure an appropriate backend in backends.php.

    You must login to Horde as a Horde Administrator to finish the configuration of Jeta. Use the Horde Administration menu item to get to the administration page, and then click on the Configuration icon to get the configuration page. Select File Manager from the selection list of applications. Fill in or change any configuration values as needed. When done click on Generate File Manager Configuration to generate Jeta configuration directory or file, it will not be able to write the file. In this case, go back to Configuration and choose one of the other methods to create the configuration file jeta/config/conf.php.

    Note for international users: Jeta uses GNU gettext to provide local translations of text displayed by applications; the translations are found in the po/ directory. If a translation is not yet available for your locale (and you wish to create one), see the horde/po/README file, or if you're having trouble using a provided translation, please see the horde/docs/TRANSLATIONS file for instructions.

  3. Securing Jeta

    Review the guidelines for security contained in horde/docs/SECURITY.

  4. Tuning Jeta (Performance)

    See horde/docs/PERFORMANCE.

  5. Additional Notes (relaying SSH connections)

    Important

    The Horde Project can not provide support for configuration of a relay daemon.

    Since Java only allows you to connect back to the web server from which the applet was downloaded, if you wish to connect to another machine you must use a "transparent redirection" application of some sort. The standard unix tool for this use is the xinetd server. If you are not running xinetd, there are many other redirections tools you can use, some of which can be downloaded from the web site at http://www.javassh.org/. The "relayd" and "mrealyd" applications available there are C applications and should be fairly portable.

    To configure xinetd, use a configuration similar to the following:

    # default: off
    # description: The relayd deamon redirects ssh connections on port "relayd" \
    #              (relayd must be defined in /etc/services) on this host to \
    #              the ssh server on host 10.0.0.2 on port 22.
    service relayd
    {
        disabl           = no
        flags            = REUSE
        socket_type      = stream
        wait             = no
        user             = root
        server           = /usr/sbin/sshd
        log_on_success   += HOST DURATION
        log_on_failure   += HOST
        bind             = 10.0.0.1
        redirect         = 10.0.0.2 22
    }
    

    The above accpets connections from the java applet to the web server with the IP address 10.0.0.1 (on the port "relayd" as defined in /etc/services) and then redirects those connections to a second server at IP address 10.0.0.2 on port 22.

5   Obtaining Support

If you encounter problems with Jeta, help is available!

The Horde Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ), available on the Web at

http://www.horde.org/faq/

The Horde Project runs a number of mailing lists, for individual applications and for issues relating to the project as a whole. Information, archives, and subscription information can be found at

http://www.horde.org/mail/

Lastly, Horde developers, contributors and users also make appearances on IRC, on the channel #horde on the Freenode Network (irc.freenode.net).

Please keep in mind that Jeta is free software written by volunteers. For information on reasonable support expectations, please read

http://www.horde.org/support.php

Thanks for using Jeta!

The Jeta Team