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RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /folder/apply-now
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.site.com/study-english-usa/apply-now [R=301,L]
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After poking around a bit I found the log files. The error message was a bit cryptic.

[ ERROR ] CFG-ERR-0103 Unable to start Cognos 8 service.
Execution of the external process returns an error code value of ‘-1′.

I then proceeded to look at the executable files in the Cognos directory (from the services) and found a configuration tool. I looked it over and then proceeded to right click “Local Configuration” and test. It ran through a bunch of different things and then I could see the results

1. 13:46:52, ‘LogService’, ‘StartService’, ‘Success’.
2. 13:47:00, CM-CFG-5063 A Content Manager configuration error was detected while connecting to the content store.
CM-CFG-5036 Content Manager failed to connect to the content store. The connection string is “jdbc:JSQLConnect://localhost:1433/cgContent”.
Failed Logon:com.jnetdirect.jsql.JSQLException: Login failed for user ‘sa’. url:jdbc:JSQLConnect://localhost:1433/cgContent
3. 13:47:00, ‘ContentManager’, ‘getActiveContentManager’, ‘Failure’.
DPR-CMI-4006 Unable to determine the active Content Manager. Will retry periodically.
4. 13:47:00, ‘com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.ActiveCMControl’, ‘pogo’, ‘Failure’.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.

Well I found out the SA password was changed. It seemed ok until the next reboot. Now this server had been up for 500 days. It’s good that someone knew the password. After putting it in the system came back up. Maybe this might help someone in the future.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.site.com/wherever [R=301,L]

What you’ll want to do is click on the hosts where you want to store the new virtual machine on.

Click on the Summary Tab

Under datastores find the one you want to upload your file to.

Right click the datastore and do a browse datastore.  It will open up a new box.

Create a new folder and then click the upload file. Browse to your vmdk file and upload the file. It will most likely take an hour or two.

You can upload your vmx file too but most likely it won’t work.  So I’ll show you the better way to get this going.

Close the Datastore Browser and then go back to the main Vsphere Client.

Add a new virtual machine but use the Custom Configuration

Select the datastore in which you uploaded your vmdk file.

When you get to “Select a Disk”, use the “Use an existing Virtual Disk, then browse to the vmdk file.  If you don’t see it in the folder go back to Machine Version and choose VM7.  Depending on which version you choose it can import different file types.

Once your down go ahead and power on the the new VM.

You might get this error message when you start up your new VM:

Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 7. Did you forget to import the disk first?Unable to create virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0,  Module DevicePowerOn power on failed

This means that your disk needs to be zerodthick.

You can run a command “vmkfstools -i filename.vmdk -d zeroedthick filename1.vmdk” and that will convert it for you but most people won’t have ssh access into their vshpere.  If you don’t then you can just do this to fix it.

Right Click the vm you just created and click Clone.  Go through the motions and when you get to Disk format you can select “Thick Format”.  You can try thin and it may or may not work.  Up to you to test it out.

After that just power it on and then it should come up.

If your new VM is a Microsoft VM, then you need to do a few more steps to get it going.

After first logging in you will get some new hardware found.  Just click ignore all new found hardware.
The mouse and video will be very choppy.

Click on the name of the VM and select Guest, Install VMware toools.

After that a new program will come up and install the vmware tools.

Once that is done right click your video properties, select advanced, troubleshooting and set your hardware acceletor all the way up.

Reboot the system.

login, and then vmware tools should install the new hardware and remove the old hardware.  It will tell you to reboot.

Reboot again.

Setup your network connection.  Vmware will have installed a new vmware virtual ethernet adaptor.  It will be set for dhcp.  If your on a windows box and try to set the same static ip as before and you get this message,

“The IP address you have entered for this network
adapter is already assigned to another adapter “Fast
Ethernet Adapter #1″. “Fast Ethernet Adapter #1″ is
hidden from the Network Connections folder because it is
not physically in the computer. If the same address is
assigned to both adapters and they both become active,
only one of them will use this address. This may result
in incorrect system configuration. Do you want to enter
a different IP address for this adapter in the list of IP
addresses in the Advanced dialog box? Yes/No

then that means you have a ghost adapter from the previous system.  You can remove the hidden network adaptor by doing these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER.
2. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER.
3. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER.
4. Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices.
5. Expand the Network adapters tree.
6. Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall.

After that your system should be good to go.

I’ll go over the motions real quick on setting up a user via command line.

/usr/sbin/useradd -m username

-m creates the home directory.

then type

passwd username

and set their new password

There are a few options to check if the user can’t login.

If they are getting permission denied you need to add them to the sshd_config file.

vi /etc/ssh/ssd_config

use your arrow keys and kook for the line:

AllowUsers root

be sure to add your user to that line

in vi just hit the a key to add to a line.  When your done hit the escape key.

AllowUsers root newuser

to save and quit in vi do a

:wq!

Save the file and have the user try to login.

That should do the trick.  If not just comment and I’ll try to help

du -h -s /directory/*

that will show you all the subdirectories and their sizes in human readable format, ie in MB and GB etc.

Then I just run a mstsc to their machine and do my job.

make sure openssl is installed by doing a

sudo apt-get install openssl

This will either install or update it

You can check your conf files by going into

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.  By default you’ll see 000-default file in there.  That is your normal http conf file.  If you edit the file you’ll see it says to listen on port 80.

To get your https working create a symbolic link to the default-ssl file.  While in your /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory type this in:

ln -s ../sites-available/default-ssl default-ssl

check the directory and now you should have two files in your directory.

You will now have to restart apache using this command

/usr/sbin/apachectl stop

/usr/sbin/apachectl start

Also if your getting this error message in your logs it means that https is not configured correctly.   Enabling it should help.

Invalid method in request \x80e\x01\x03\x01