Install Apache In Freenas Jail Host

• I usually install jail per service. For example, I create a jail for each FreeBSD service such as Nginx/PHP/Perl/Python web service, MariaDB database server, Deluge, Duplicity/Rsnapshot backup service and more. And there you have it. You just created a jail that automatically starts for the FreeNAS system.
• — Installing Apache 2.4. The Apache web server is currently one of the most popular web servers in.
• My host has 4 ip addresses, 3 public and one private: 192.168.100.173. I tried creating a jail using ezjail and this does not work out. root@mambo /usr/src# ezjail-admin update -p -i Error: Cannot find your copy of the FreeBSD source tree in. Consider using 'ezjail-admin install' to create the base jail from an ftp server. root@mambo /usr/src#.
• After spending a lot of time researching I discovered that on FreeNAS 11.2 the project started to use the ‘iocage’ jail method instead of ‘warden’. FreeNAS 11.2 had the option of migrating your jails, and it could even display then from the UI.

These notes are with respect to FreeNAS 11.3, Git 2.6, and Apache 2.4.

Let’s begin by adding a jail. Within Jails, click Add Jail. Most of this is default. Here are the settings for a currently working config: DHCP Autoconfigure IPv4 unchecked, NAT unchecked, VNET checked, Berkeley Packet Filter checked, IPv4 statically defined, Autoconfigure IPv6 unchecked, Auto-start checked, mount_devfs checked, mount_fedscfs checked, allow_set_hostname checked, all other jail allow_* properties unchecked, Network interface vnet0:bridge0, within Custom Properties host_time checked).

To install Git, we want to get to a shell on the FreeNAS system (ssh works too).
# shell into the jail
$ sudo iocage console git
# install dependencies
$ pkg install git apache24

The next thing to do is create a Git repo within the jail. There are plenty of online references for this, though creating an initial bare repository is the goal.

FreeNAS ® Plugins extend the built-in NAS services by adding 3rd party software which provides specific services. FreeNAS allows the user to browse, install, and configure pre-packaged plugins from the web interface. Each plugin is automatically installed into its own restricted and secure FreeBSD jail.

Install Drivers Freenas

Install Drivers Freenas

Freenas Create Jail

To use this repo over HTTP, there are some additional configs to setup. Below is the content for the config file at the root of the repo.Also, configure the file system to be modifiable by the Apache user.
$ chown -R www:www /data/git/repos/brian.git

The last bit of work is to configure Apache. Here is a working /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/git.conf file where the path /ro/ is used for read-only access to the repository (helpful for CI builds).Then test and restart Apache.
$ apachectl configtest && apachectl restart

The Git repo should now be available over HTTP.
# read-only
$ git clone http://.../ro/brian.git
# read-write
$ git clone http://.../brian.git