webERP Virtual Machine

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6 responses to “webERP Virtual Machine”

1. EZ

   7 July 2008

   Hi,

   Thanks for the vmware image ,

   How to access the weberp ?
   The default website gives only the apache page.

   Thanks.

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2. Steve Root

   7 July 2008

   You need to get the current weberp from the http://www.weberp.org web site and install it into the Virtual Machine (instructions for that are on the weberp site). This Virtual Machine only gives you a basic ‘linux server’ with Apache, MySql and PHP so you don’t have to go and create/build/borrow a real server for your initial testing needs.

   There are instructions in the Virtual Machine zip file too, here they are:

   Virtual Machine to use for testing web-erp:
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   Created by: Steve Root
   This help text first written by Steve Root 3rd Feb 2007
   http://www.steveroot.co.uk
   steve@rootskitchens.co.uk

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   About the VM
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   This VM is designed to give people testing/trying web-erp for the first time a simple, ready to go way of testing/trying web-erp. It runs within a VMWare virtual machine, so if you haven’t already got it you will need the VMWare player (free) or one of their other equivalent pieces of VM software. The virtual machine will get it’s own IP address off your networks DHCP server. The VM is simply set up as a base for web-erp to be installed on top of. IE I have made sure PHP works, MySQL works but this VM should NEVER be used in a production environment.
   I could have installed all of web-erp but then you may look to test an out of date version and part of using Web-erp is installing it. This VM only saves you the time of finding a suitable operation system to run it on.
   VMWare is at http://www.vmware.com

   No guarantees are given on whether this will work for you. Use it at your own risk. If you have a question or query please feel free to email me at: steve@rootskitchens.co.uk – Replies may be slowed down by real life, paid work and the need for sleep. If you find the current version of web-erp wont install then I’d like to know so I can try and fix it to help others. I am probably only going to be able to help you with queries relating to the VM I created, the mailing lists for web-erp are a better source of answers for web-erp things – don’t forget to search the archives for answers.

   VM based on trustix secure linux – simply because I like it
   http://www.trustix.org

   hostname = weberp
   user = weberp
   password = weberp
   Root user password = sudash
   From the local terminal you can log in directly as root, but from SSH connections you have to first log in as user, then “su -” command to switch user into root.

   weberp is at http://www.weberp.org (but you probably know that already).

   Installation
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   This worked for me, it may be out of date by the time you read this so PLEASE read along with the web-erp instructions too!

   1)
   Did the Virtual machine boot OK? In your VMWare player (or similar) window you should see any errors get displayed. Especially look for lots of Green [ OK ] messages. Any red [ FAILED ] messages should start to worry you… There are too many possiblities to talk about that here.

   2)
   Find out the IP address your virtual machine got from your DHCP server. Your DHCP server may have a way of telling you, alternative log in to the machine using using username: weberp ,password: weberp -Type the command “ifconfig” (press return).
   You are looking for the “eth0” section and the line “inet addr:” – probably something like 192.168.0.9

   3)
   you can log into the virtual machine via SSH now that you know the IP address, or continue to use the ‘local’ screen access that is your VMPlayer software.
   Use the IP address to communicate with the server over the network.
   EG http://192.168.0.9/ for web pages

   **Follow the detail in the weberp manual from here on – what follows are just specific notes related to the web instructions**

   4)
   Download the WEBERP files. I chose to download it to my desktop, unzip the files then upload (ftp) them to the server. I chose to upload them directly to a new folder (named webERP) under the apache root folder.
   The active html directory is at /home/httpd/html/
   Your user directory is at /home/users/weberp/
   (you start in the user directory when you FTP or SSH into the server).

   5)
   The mysql user has not been set up, so you need to follow the webERP instructions to set your mysql password and import the weberp demo database.

   6)
   In the config file, $dbuser and $dbpassword are the user and password *YOU* created for your mysql server and are different to the local machine user of ‘weberp’. You can use ‘weberp’ as the database user if you like though.

   7)
   Yet another reminder: you should NOT use this VM in a production environment, it is only a quick way to get you a working local web-erp system to play with.

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3. Tony Davis

   1 April 2009

   How has your evaluation of webERP gone? Did you go on to adopt it?

   Thank you for sharing your experience.

   Tony Davis

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4. Steve Root

   8 April 2009

   I tried it back in 2007 so am pretty sure the program will have changed enough that my comments will not be useful (even allowing for my failure in memory detail)

   We didn’t adopt it as it did far more than we needed in our small business (as did every other system I investigated). We kept with the software we have (MS Access DB & MySQL/PHP/Coldfusion systems). One thing I did like about WebERP was that is was fully web based, no other client software required.

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5. Soni

   31 May 2011

   Dear Steve,
   Now this is what you may not like and that I may sound very ignorent, but then that is true too, as far as webERP goes. Well even I liked the application.
   Thank You for the VM-webERP
   Thanks you in anticipation for all of the below.
   What I need to ask is, how do you feed the opening data of a company into the application? i.e. data like :- Individual Stock Items and ledger and bank accounts etc. In short opening balances of company accounts.

   Once again Thank You
   Warm Regards
   Soni.

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6. Steve

   31 May 2011

   Hi Soni,
   I haven’t used webERP for a long time and I really don’t know. Your best bet is to try the webERP support pages ( http://www.weberp.org/WeberpSupport ). It looks like the project is still active (source code updated 31st May – today!) so I’m sure someone in the mailing list can help or point you in the right direction.

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