Guide – How To Start – Webissues Server on AlmaLinux OS 8 on Amazon

Connecting and configuring Webissues Server on AlmaLinux OS 8

To work, you should open TCP port 80 in the network properties of the Amazon firewall.

After purchasing and starting the VM, you should know its IP address. You can find it in the personal account of Amazon.

To connect to the Server, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instructions (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3) Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM

  1. To connect to the VM use the PuTTY application. You can download it at the following link – Download
    • Go to section SSH on the left panel, and then to Auth
  • In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
  • Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM, and click “Open”.
  • In the opened console, you will need to enter the login ec2-user
  1. To view the database connection credentials, enter the command

>sudo cat /root/webissues-password

Do not close the SSH connection. You’ll need it later

  1. Now you can go to the admin panel. To access the admin panel, you need to enter http://yourVM’sIP in the address bar of the browser. 
  1. Next, go to Configure Database.
  1. Select a language (1) and click Next (2).
  1. Choose the Create new database tables option, select PostgreSQL in the Connection details section, enter “localhost” in the Hostname field enter credentials from step 4 (points 1-3), and click Next.
  1. Enter the parameters of the new server: Server name (1), Initial configuration (2), admin password (3), password confirmation (4) and click Next.
  1. In the Confirm installation window click Install.
  1. After installing, go to the Web Client.
  1. You can find out all the information you need by going to WebIssues Guide.
  1. To avoid problems in future work, return to the SSH connection (step 4) and delete the default settings directory by entering the command 

>sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/setup

Now you can effortlessly use our well-prepared Webissues Server on Linux Stream 8. More info is accessible at the following links:

Official Documentation 

WebIssues Guide 

WebIssues Manual

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