installing review board on VM (Debian)

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abhishek agrawal

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Feb 25, 2016, 4:50:48 AM2/25/16
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Hi All,

I was trying to install review board on my VM (Debian OS) . I configured MySQL along with APACHE2 and went ahead with installation of review board using usual instructions given at https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/admin/installation/linux/
. One completed i created a new review board site following the steps given here : https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/admin/installation/creating-sites/#creating-sites. I got a successful message that "the site has been installed in /var/www/<domainname>" . I gave the required permissions to apache server to access the data at            /var/www/reviewboard.flipkart.com/htdocs/media/uploaded

        * /var/www/reviewboard.flipkart.com/htdocs/media/ext

        * /var/www/reviewboard.flipkart.com/htdocs/static/ext

        * /var/www/reviewboard.flipkart.com/data


but still i am not able to see my site running or even ping it. 

I tried pinging it but its not accessible 

ping <domainname> as well as ping <domainname>:8080 gives "ping: unknown host"


Any help how can i check if my site is up and running.


Thanks,

Abhishek 

David Trowbridge

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Feb 29, 2016, 4:12:56 PM2/29/16
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Abhishek,

That sounds like your server doesn't have valid DNS.

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abhishek agrawal

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Mar 1, 2016, 6:22:12 AM3/1/16
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Hi David,

I got the DNS issue resolved and  am able to access reviewboard at <hostname>/reviewboard. I have added the the git repository in the repo information. But now the issue is coming up with .reviewboardrc file. 
My reviewboard is set up on a central server and all the users work on multiple git repositories. What is the optimal way in which everyone can access .reviewboardrc file. Can i keep it in some central place where everyone can access it.
Also i tried doing a post-review but it says command not found. I have already installed rbtools on my local box. rb post is working find but not able to get post-review working. 
Any help on this would be great.

Thanks,
Abhishek

abhishek agrawal

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Mar 1, 2016, 6:23:02 AM3/1/16
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Also, do all the users need to install rbtools on their respective boxes to post reviews.

David Trowbridge

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Mar 1, 2016, 12:40:29 PM3/1/16
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.reviewboardrc should be added to each individual repository. In the Review Board administration UI for each repository that you've added, there's a sample .reviewboardrc that will specify the server name and the repository ID.

`post-review` was deprecated and its functionality is entirely replaced and expanded by `rbt post` and the other `rbt` commands. `post-review` was removed entirely in the 0.7.x releases.

Users will need rbtools on their systems for the smoothest experience posting their code for review.

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abhishek agrawal

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Mar 1, 2016, 11:27:06 PM3/1/16
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Thanks a lot David. That answers all my queries.
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