Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine Posts in the discussion thread "Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine" - 1) What tool would you recommend for unpacking the "tar.gz" archive? 2) What is the root password of the VM so I can shut it down properly? Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:16:53 +0000 http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-167482 Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-167482 Wed, 21 May 2008 13:37:52 +0000 marenz 131219 just do sudo shutdown -h now

for the empty folders.. i can confirm this problem, but nothing more :/
this should not happen in an ready image.. though for me it might is caused by virtualbox.. but then again.. he is using vmware and has the same problem

—Ano

]]> http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-157044 Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-157044 Sat, 03 May 2008 17:05:49 +0000 David Drascic 113763 On the page entitled Debian QuickStart (which to a novice does not sound like it should be very useful when trying to run a virtual Ubuntu machine), I found the following:

Note: on Ubuntu you can do

 sudo su -

to permanently obtain root shell.

Do you suppose this is what I need to use with the virtual machine? I would have tried it already but I'm trying to download the VM again (6th try!) hoping to get a clean copy.

]]> http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-156793 Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-156793 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:40:37 +0000 tsangk 47197 If you are using Windows, then you may try "[[www.rarlab.com/download.htm WinRAR]]"

See if that helps….

-gmhelper

P.S. I am also interested on how to work the Virtual Version coz I have installed it on my PC.

]]> http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-156760 Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-156760 Fri, 02 May 2008 23:06:33 +0000 David Drascic 113763 I'm hoping to have a chance to try out the virtual machine package of the wikidot server, but I'm not having any luck.

I downloaded the VM as required, and got what I think is a clean copy, tho it took several tries

  • wikidot-dev2-vm-20080220.tar.gz (603,068 KB, or 617,540,980 bytes)

I tried using PowerArchiver and TUGZip, but neither was able to decompress everything for some reason. Neither generated errors, tho. By merging the two uncompressed versions, I was able to get a VM that booted up, but apache failed during startup, and the /wikidot/…/wikidot1 and wikidot2 directories were empty.

When I tried to shut down the VM, I kept getting an error: "Must be root", but I do not know what the root password is. It isn't "wdadmin", as it is for the wdadmin account. I had to force a "power-failure" shutdown in WMWare Player just to turn the VM off.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David.

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