Using Cobbler Web Interface

参见：http://openskill.info/infobox.php?ID=1461

 Cobbler Web Interface is a good frontend to easily manage most Cobbler operations. It permits to list, add and edit distros, profiles, subprofiles, systems, repos and kickstart files.  

The setup of the WebUI has changed since version 0.7.x, what follows refers to the "new" way of set up, working from version > 0.7.x.

The Web  Interface can be seen at the address: http://your.cobbler.server/cobbler/web   

You need Apache and Cobbler services running.   

You need to setup a username for accessing it (digest authentication).   
You can change the password for the existing cobbler user:   
htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" cobbler   
Or you can add other usernames/passwords:   
htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" yourname   

Be sure to have in /etc/cobbler/modules the following values:   
[authentication]   
module = authn_configfile   
[authorization]   
module = authz_allowall   

For old Cobbler pre 1.0  versions be sure to have in /etc/cobbler/settings the following values:   
xmlrpc_rw_enabled: 1   
xmlrpc_rw_port: 25152   

Restart cobbler service in you changed any of the above settings: 
service cobblerd restart 

For debugging check these logs: 
/var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log 
/var/log/httpd/error.log 

More complex setups are possible for managing authorization and authentication policies, refer to official documentation for details.