Foreman 1.4 http provisioning issue

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Hi,

I am trying to install Foreman 1.4 to deploy my operating systems over
TFTP. This works well up to the point where the node is trying to download
the preseed/kickstart file (checked both). After some checking it turns out
that the files are not available at http, but can only be accessed through
https. From some of the other posts here on the group I got that the Debian
Installer can't use https for wget in its busybox environment. From a
different machine I can download the file with a browser, so it gets
rendered. I tried to change pretty much everything to point the
unattended_url to http, but without success. The http address gets passed
into the netboot process, but the download fails.

To rule out the host OS and missconfiguration, I tried Foreman installer in
the interactive mode with some tweaks and the standard installation without
any tempering, except adding the DHCP server in a second run of Foreman
installer, on Debian Wheezy and CentOS 6.5. Has anybody experienced the
same problem or can give me some advise?

Kind regards,

Stefan Meyer

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This was a known issue added to the 1.4 announcement - the installer
configures Apache such that the default HTTP vhost takes preference
over Foreman's. To fix, simply move 5-foreman.conf to 05-foreman.conf
in sites-enabled and restart Apache.

Greg

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Hi Greg,

thanks a lot. That really helped. It is working now the way it is supposed
to be.
Maybe it would be good to add this to the Foreman manual in the know issues
section.

Thanks again,

Stefan