Re: maia success on php-7.x distros

I was doing things manually as I'd done in the past.  I found out about 
the newer Git repository, but I didn't know there was an installation 
script now.  Will have to clear and start over on my Debian and Ubuntu 
setups to see how this works.

--Holly.

On 04/09/2020 16:40, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> Also - be sure and use the latest pull from the repo. It has been 
> getting several updates a day.
> 
> Jake
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:33 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Holly,
> 
>     When you installed with ubuntu 18.04 and Debian, did you install by
>     hand, or use the installer?
> 
>     I've lightly tested the install script for ubuntu 18.04 (it worked
>     fine in a container, but if it missed something in a different use
>     case, I'd like to see the install log).
> 
>     I'm running prod maia on Debian 10, which was tested in a container,
>     a VM and a physical box. They were all installed with the install
>     script. If you look at the installer script for ubuntu-18,04, you
>     will see exactly how each component was installed.
> 
>     I'm not aware of any missing php pieces.
> 
>     As for html purifier, the reason we specified a path is that pear
>     was unable to install htmlpurifier. If that pear issue is fixed,
>     then of course, you can uncomment the line that auto detects the
>     location. But to get things running right now, the installer
>     installs html purifier standalone and specifies the location.
> 
>     Jake
> 
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:18 PM Holly Justman <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On 04/05/2020 11:37, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>          > We recently restarted work on our maia repository and have
>         had some
>          > encouraging deployments. While we originally targeted Centos
>         7, we've
>          > since gotten it working on centos 8, and also also tested on
>         Debian 10
>          > and Ubuntu 18.04.
>          >
>          > As of today, my own prod mailguard servers are running on
>         Debian 10 and
>          > Centos 8.
>          >
>          > All in all, the Debian 10 deployment has been the least
>         troublesome.
>          >
>          > Cheers,
>          >
>          > Jake
>          > https://github.com/einheit/maia_mailguard_1.04a
>         Curious you say this, as I have had nothing but trouble getting
>         this
>         working under Ubuntu 18.04.
> 
>         I tried this exact Git repository but was missing a lot of PHP
>         stuff.
>         Also, there's a defect in the detection script, wherein it makes
>         a very
>         specific attempt to locate the HTMLPurifier in a very specific
>         place.
>         Remove the specificity it has (so it's just the module) and it
>         works fine.
> 
>         On to the stuff that is outright broken.  How do you get the MDB2
>         support working?  There are packages missing for that support in
>         Ubuntu
>         18.04's repositories, notably the mysqli MDB2 driver.  There's
>         reference
>         to a package, but only insofar as to say it's not even available.
>         "php-mdb2-driver-mysqli (>= 1.5.0~b4) Package not available" says
>         packages.ubuntu.com <http://packages.ubuntu.com> for Bionic.
> 
>         The complete red-item list (assuming these mean requirements or
>         Maia
>         doesn't work) is below:
> 
>         PEAR::Mail_mimeDecode   FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
>         extension is
>         required to decode MIME-structured e-mail. Use pear install
>         Mail_mimeDecode to install this. (Mail_mimeDecode was split from
>         Mail_Mime at version 1.5.0)
>         PEAR::DB                FAILED: 1.9.2 DB.php installed as:
>         /usr/share/php/DB.php
>         PEAR::MDB2              FAILED: Could not connect to database.
>         Check the
>         mysqli://amavis:passwd@tcp(localhost:3306)/maia setting in
>         config.php.
>         PEAR::MDB2#mysqli       FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
>         extension is
>         required in order to provide database abstraction. Use pear install
>         MDB2#mysqli to install this.
>         [...]
>         PEAR::Pager             FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
>         extension is
>         required in order to paginate the list of mail items in the
>         quarantines
>         and the ham cache. Use pear install Pager to install this.
> 
>         I'm not including the yellow-line stuff as some is optional,
>         only for
>         graphs.
> 
>         All this said, I'd rather not have to go outside the
>         distribution so I
>         can install and update Maia's dependencies automatically.
> 
>         I also tried using Debian, and a few more prereqs (like php-log)
>         weren't
>         available.
> 
>         Were you using Pear to install these?  And how do you keep them
>         up to
>         date when other stuff in PHP gets updated?
> 
>         Thanks for any insight you may have.
> 
>         --Holly.
> 
>         -- 
>         Holly R. Justman - Formerly Ian (legacy account)
>         UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
>         ianj (at) ian-justman.com <http://ian-justman.com>
> 

-- 
Holly R. Justman - Formerly Ian (legacy account)
UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
ianj (at) ian-justman.com
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