Installing VMWare Virtual Appliance

EPP-DRS is also distributed as a VMWare virtual appliance.
It's a VMWare virtual machine with 512 MB RAM and 1.5 GB of disk space, running Ubuntu JEOS. EPP-DRS is already installed and fully configured (installation path is /var/www)

It can be useful in following cases:

You do not have enough skills or time to set up everything manually
Your server is running Windows.
You wish to evaluate EPP-DRS before puchasing.

:!: Appliance will need a separate IP address accessible from internet. Hence you must have one spare IP address not assigned to your host server.

Here are 5 simple steps to get it running on your server:

Download and install free VMWare player
Download the archive with latest virtual machine from EPP-DRS downloads
Power ON virtual machine. Log in as root and password eppdrs and change the root password.
type vi /etc/network/interfaces

replace line iface eth0 inet dhcp

with these lines:

iface eth0 inet static
        address <IP address>
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway <Gateway IP>

where <IP address> is your spare IP address, <Gateway IP> is your gateway IP (can be found in connection properties on host machine).

type /etc/init.d/networking restart
You might need to request updated EPP-DRS license and replace the outdated one inside /etc/epp-drs
Point your browser to the appliance IP address (http://<IP address>/admin).