Today I was setting up a new OES2 test server using some older hardware. Just when I had finished setting up all my OES services the disk decided to crash on me.

No big problem as I replaced the faulty hard drive, cleaned up related eDirectory objects for the crashed server and reinstalled the server.

All services installed fine except for iFolder. That gave the error ' failed to configure ifolder server '.
Trying to login to the admin page resulted in another error ' Your session has been closed, please log in '

Simply reinstalling or reconfiguring iFolder 3.6 did not fix the errors.

The following method is useful in situations where you have no large amounts of data stored within iFolder and can reinstall iFolder, thus saving you the trouble of having to re-setup the whole OES server again (or feel forced to move the iFolder service to another system).

What to do to get iFolder running:

** BEFORE CONTINUING CONSIDER CAREFULLY IF DELETING iFOLDER IN THIS MANNER WON'T LEAD TO DATA LOSS IN YOUR CASE!! **

1) Uninstall iFolder packages

Using YaST > OES Install and Configuration , select iFolder and select to remove these packages:
- ifolder-clients
- ifolder-enterprise
- ifolder-tsa

Accept this and you will get a dependency warning for the novell-ifolder package.
Select to delete this package as well and continue.

After the uninstall is finished accept the OES configuration screen (without changing settings).

2) Removing the iFolder proxy account (CAREFUL :only do this if this is the only iFolder server!!)

Within the eDirectory remove the iFolder proxy user. This user can be found in the container that holds the server where you installed iFolder. By default the user is called (how surprising) iFolderProxy. This account will be recreated when iFolder is installed again.

3) Remove iFolder specific directories and files


rm /etc/apache2/conf.d/simias.conf
rm -Rf /opt/novell/ifolder3
rm /tmp/mod_mono*simias*
rm /tmp/mod_mono*ifolder*
rm -Rf /etc/sysconfig/novell/ifolder3
rm /etc/apache2/conf.d/ifolder_admin.conf
rm /etc/apache2/conf.d/ifolder_web.conf
rm /var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.ifolder3-novell


Rename /var/simias to /var/simias.prv (/var/simias/data/simias/SimiasFiles contains default store for user files)
mv /var/simias /var/simias.org

or remove the directory completely if there is no relevant data
rm -Rf /var/simia s

Now reboot the server to release any processes that might still be running.

4) Reinstall iFolder

Again using YaST > OES Install and Configuration , select iFolder and accept to install the packages.

At the OES configuration screen the iFolder section should state iFolder needs some extra configuration parameters.

Click on the iFolder item and enter the needed parameters.

Your iFolder setup should be complete successfully.

After installing iFolder reboot the server one last time & iFolder should be running normally.