How can I host elog in a web server. I need sample config file on [global] segment to show config on how it can be host. Please need your help. Thanks

I am honestly not sure if I understand the question. You can run ELOG behind an Apache Webserver. Look for example at https://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#secure

After entering a new user and activating it in ELOG, the new user receives an email.

The link does not work because the port number is repeated in the link (see below)

In the Global part of the elogd.ini we have added the port:

port = 8080



Maybe I am overlooking something, any suggestions are very much appreciated!



Thanks!

Ron



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Email Subject: Your ELOG account has been activated



Email Body:



Your ELOG account has been activated on host eloghost:8080.



You can access it at http://eloghost:8080:8080/logbookname/?unm=newuser.



To subscribe to any logbook, click on 'Config' in that logbook.

> After entering a new user and activating it in ELOG, the new user receives an email.
> The link does not work because the port number is repeated in the link (see below)
> In the Global part of the elogd.ini we have added the port:
> port = 8080
> 
> Maybe I am overlooking something, any suggestions are very much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> Ron
> 
> - - - - - -
> 
> Email Subject: Your ELOG account has been activated
> 
> Email Body:
> 
> Your ELOG account has been activated on host eloghost:8080.
> 
> You can access it at http://eloghost:8080:8080/logbookname/?unm=newuser.
> 
> To subscribe to any logbook, click on 'Config' in that logbook.

I just tried myself and got:



Your ELOG account has been activated on host localhost:8080.

You can access it at http://localhost:8080/Demo/?unm=midas.

To subscribe to any logbook, click on 'Config' in that logbook.



I used following config:

[global]
Port = 8080
Password file = passwd
SMTP host = xxx
Self register = 3
Admin user = stefan
 
[Demo]
Attributes = Type, Subject, Author


So something in your config file must be different. Can you find out what it is?

/Stefan

Hi Stefan, thank you very much for having a look at this :-)



Here is the config file we use. Seems okay to me, but I may be overlooking something.





[global]

port = 8080

SMTP host = localhost

Self register= 0

Display Email recipients = 0

Use Email Subject = [ELOG - $logbook]

Date format = %a %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

Default encoding = 1

Allowed encoding = 1



[MYLOGBOOK]

Theme = default

Comment = My logbook

Password file = passw_mylogbook.pwd

Admin user = admin,user1,user2,user3

Self register= 3

Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, ServerNaam

Preset Author = $long_name

Options Type = Opt01, Opt02, Opt03, Opt04, Opt05

Options Category = Cat01, Cat02, Cat03, Cat04, Cat05, Cat06, Cat07

MOptions ServerNaam = Server01

Preset ServerNaam = Server01

Required Attributes = Author, Type, ServerNaam

Page Title = ELOG - $subject

Reverse sort = 1

Quick filter = Date, Type, ServerNaam

Dear all,

First, many thanks for creating and sharing this great tool which is ELOG! Our users are very happy with it!

I have few questions about inserting images into the entries.

From time to time our users insert them directly in the editor what leads to encoding the whole image in the HTML log file and the images does not appear in the attachments list. Saving and further editing of such entries slows down the whole ELOG server which uses 100% of CPU.

I'm not sure how they do it Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V, drag & drop, etc.. What I know is that if they add it using the "Insert image" action in the editor there are no problems and the images are properly listed in the attachments.

I read in the docs:

uploading or downloading an attachement file is a single request, and causes the entire file to be loaded in server memory while the request is being processed.
This is not normally a problem for the sort of short, text-mode entries ELOG is designed to support. However, if a user starts to upload or download a large attachment file (or image) over a slow link, all other users on that ELOG server will have to wait for that transfert to finish before they can access any logbook on that server. This is why there is a low limit on the size of attachments, and why ELOG should not be used to distribute large files under intensive multi-user conditions.

but I think this is not our case. Here I talk about wrongly inserting a single image of 700KiB.

So, I'm asking:

1. Is the behavior that we observe something already detected? If yes, which are exactly the wrong ways of inserting the images?
2. Is it fixed in newer ELOG versions?
3. Is it possible to disable the wrong ways of inserting the images in order to avoid such problems?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

I found the most limiting factor of ELOG to be the file access. ELOG stores all entries in files and therefore has a lot of disk access.

We found that an AFS directory for ELOG is unusable. We tried to store our logbooks on NFS, and it was barely usable but slow. Now we use a local disk on the server, that works fine.

If you want to speed up ELOG the best approach is a dedicated server with a local SSD storage.