Ensim Power Tools

One of the features of Compumont Web Hosting is easy access to the Power Tools suite provided as part of the Ensim Pro WebAppliance.

While all tools are, in general, available to all web host clients, we've had the opportunity to install and use only a few locally. For those we're tested, some support is available and comments will be posted here.

Note that the installed version of WebAppliance may trail the current version documented at the Ensim web site. Thus the tools available and versions of the tools may not exactly match.

Also please note that due to the WebAppliance scheme of installing tools, many show up in the control panel more then once with different version numbers. In general, please choose to install the latest unless you have additional knowledge or needs.

Other common Unix packages have not been "Ensimized" and their installation is tricky to say the least. Mailman is one example. A HOWTO was found on the EV1 forum and used successfully. More on Mailman will be presented in a specific posting.

Tools installed locally are:

• Gallery - see http://www.vodall.com/gallery
• phpBB - see http://www.napra.net/forums
• phpLinks - see http://www.napra.net/links
• WebCalendar - see http://www.napra.net/calendar

Notes on installation.

Gallery - set the initial admin password to a single character and then change it. This is a workaround for a bug

phpLinks - The admin page is not obvious. I guessed and found it as a subdirectory from the main URL. IE. http://www.napra.net/links/admin. Enter Categories before adding any links.