03.21.2017

How to get XPages and Bootstrap3_xxx themes to work (or how to check that XPages is correctly installed)?

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Warning – Not that experienced XPages programmer here Smile 

I have been fiddling around with the Single Page Application control in XPages, but I never got it to work properly with the Bootstrap3, or Bootstrap3_flat themes. In fact it only worked with OneUI before FP8. I supect that I have some issue with XPages on the server.

Below you see a screen shot of the result in Chrome;

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My question is therefore – Does anybody know how to check if XPages is is properly installed on the server? I search around and find some details, but a lot of the information seems somewhat old (2014’ish), and the nomenclature seems different now and pretty fragmented. I guess I am also a little confused about what features that still needs ExtLib and what has been moved to the core product with FP8.

03.21.2017

Note to self; "Unable to find valid target platform" means "hey, install the core product first" when installing the Notes client

Tags: Lotus Notes
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Unfortunately I managed to completely wreck my Notes client install and and thus I had to reinstall it from scratch.

To be completely sure that there wasn’t any remains left from the old installation, I ran the “Notes Install Cleanup Executable” (NICE) tool found here. So far so good, and Notes vanished from my computer.

Perhaps it has been too long since I had to install Notes from scratch, so my first attempt was to just fire up the latest and greatest Notes FP8 client installer named notes901FP8_win.exe. After unpacking,  the installer complained about “Unable to find valid target platform”;

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- What?!? “Target platform”, does that mean my OS or what?

A quick search on the net quickly pointed me in the direction of  IBM’s own “Unable To Find Valid Target Platform" When Installing Notes, Due To a Suspended Installation. Perhaps being baffled about the message in the first place, and somewhat afraid of that the Notes installer perhaps was outdated on Windows 10 (see what a that talk about a dying Notes client can lead too Smile), my speedreading just saw a bunch of Registry tweaks …

So, after reading it again I finally saw “Usually this error occurs when the user attempts to install a Notes Fix Pack over a nonexistent base version”…. And suddenly my brain remembered that I should install core product first before upgrading to the latest fix pack.

After installing the DOMINO_DESI_ADM901_32_BIT_WIN_EN.exe and then installing notes901FP8_win.exe, everything was back on track Smile

03.16.2017

[SOLVED] - Post FP8 install - Does anybody know where the Xpages "Mobile" controls palette has gone?

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Update March 16th, 2017: Maire Kehoe (one of the lead developers on the XPages team as far as I remember) posted an answer on this blog and that was “The Mobile controls no longer appear in the palette by default. To re-add them, go to the menu File, Preferences, Domino Designer, XPages, Palette Check the check-box beside: Mobile and click OK.”. There it was;

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Thanks Maire!

Original post follows;

After installing the latest and greatest FP8, I realized that the Extension Library shifted a lot of components from ExtLibX into the ExtLib.

One thing I can’t seem to find any more is the “Mobile controls” – which contained the “Single Page Application” wizard amongst other things.

Does anybody know the whereabouts of the Mobile controls in the post-FP8 world?

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03.09.2017

Ahhh, feels good to have FP8 (and iNotes working again) in place!

Tags: Lotus Domino
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For some reason the client installer would’t run smoothly unless I killed NSD first (had this problem back with FP5 too). Well, with NSD out of the way, the new version installed without hickups.

On the server, everything went smooth! Took a while longer (approx 15-20 minutes) compared to other updates, but that doesn’t matter as long as the install works!

And, finally the iNotes client worked again!

03.03.2017

Finally I managed to stop the SMTP hacking, generating tons of "SMTP Server: Authentication failed for user ..."-messages

Tags: Lotus Domino Configuration Spam
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Have you ever seen a bunch of these in your Domino log-database?

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If so, you are the victim of attempted SMTP Hacking. It means that someone is trying to log on to your server via the SMTP protocol. SMTP was primarily constructed for functionality and not so much security Smile

Unnecessarily to say, it is a waste of cycles to have all this traffic hit your server, not to mention what could happen if they ever succeed entering the system! Obviously the perpetrators uses some sort of directory attack trying out both known and valid mail addresses, in addition to all sorts of other names.

Read on to see how I finally was able to stop specified IPs from even reaching the Domino server (hint, the Windows Firewall comes to rescue!)

Update March 7th, 2017: David Brown over at his site https://port1352.wordpress.com (love the port1352-name!) took the time to chime in and tipsed me about his blog-post Disable SMTP-AUTH To Stop Relay Hackers In Their Tracks . I had actually seen this post too, but I could not get my head around that it would could actually be better to turn off SMTP-authentication in order to have better security. I asked a question on his post, and he posted a thorough answer to why this might be a good idea here. Thanks David for taking your time to answer this question!

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