[Freedombox-discuss] virtualbox image

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Nick M. Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>; "freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org" <freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] virtualbox image
> 
> Jonathan Wilkes writes:
> 
>>  Hello,
>>       So I've got the virtualbox image booting.  What's the next 
> step
>>  to bringing up the browser interface (presumably on the host machine)?
> 
> :)
> 
> Hi Jonathan, thanks for testing!
> 
> The weekly image I'm building right now makes this a bit easier, but
> you'll want to do the following:
> 
> 1. Get your IP Address:
> 
>      [ log in as the root user, with password "freedom" ]
>      # ifconfig
> 
>    That'll tell you your box's IP address.  You'll need that later.
> 
> 2. Build Plinth:
> 
>      [ log in as the fbx user, with password "frdm" ]
>      $ cd ~/
>      $ su -c "apt-get install python-bjsonrpc python-augeas"
>      $ make
> 
> 3. Edit the cfg.py file, replacing the host = "127.0.0.1" line with:
> 
>       host = "0.0.0.0"
> 
>    That makes the web UI available to any computer.
> 
> 4. Now, try running the UI:
> 
>      $ ./plinth.py
> 
>    Now, on the host machine, point your browser to:
> 
>      $ http://(your box's ip address):8000

I was suspicious about this direction, but I tried it anyway to confirm
it would fail.  It did indeed.  My box has chosen a public address for itself
and obviously typing a public address in the host machine browser is
going to take off to the internet to find that address.

Was I supposed to change a network setting in virtualbox?  I followed the
directions on the wiki.

-Jonathan

> 
> It should show you the UI.
> 
> 
> If you get some error about file permissions, do this as root:
> 
>    # chown -R fbx:fbx /home/fbx
> 
> Nick
>