AMRBOSIA60 :: On the upgrade path to IPv6

AMRBOSIA60 - On the upgrade path to IPv6

Inventory: Current

OS: Windows 2008r2, WinXP (DOS Box in Background), Windows 2000 (DB Server), OS2 Warp3 (Analog line + Task Scheduler)
Providerline: IPv6 ready, not activated yet
Internet Router: IPv6 ready, not activated yet
Internal Firewall and VPN router: IPv4 only (no IPv6 upgrade path yet)
Fido over IP line: running on Windows 2008r2 32bit (BinkD + Allfix as Freq prozessor)
Web + FTP server: running on Windows 2008r2

Upgrade path

WinXP DOS Box is running standalone in the background
no show stopper and communicates intranet only
OS/2 Warp3 Analog line
no show stopper, communicates intranet only
may having issues with hardening Win2012r2 for SMB or other protocols connecting OS/2 to Win2012r2
Move DB server + Webserver + FTP server + BinkD line to Windows 2012r2
Still moved to new server machine and running Apache website and MySQL dbserver + BinkD on new Windows 2012r2 64-bit
using wrapper for 2 old 16 bit tools runnning now with powershell scripts
BinkD is running in line-out mode - webserver not yet redirected to the internet
- The first challenge was the transfer of the webserver
  - from Apache2 v2.2.11 to Wampserver 3.2.8 with Apache2 v2.4.53.1
  - and all PHP scripts v5.3.5 upgrade to v5.6.40
- The 2nd challenge was the transfer of the databases from MySQL v5.0.1 to v5.7.36.
  Here i followed the mysqldump - import - mysql_update procedure found in the mysql.com blog archive: Upgrading directly from MySql 5.0 to 5.7 with mysqldump
- The 3rd challenge was the transfer of the FTP servers configuration
  FileZilla server v0.9.43 beta to FileZilla server v1.4.1
  Configuration could be converted with filezilla-server-config-converter.exe
- [2022-07-05] until [2022-07-08]
  After ongoing crashes on VM host the old Windows 2008r2 server crashes finaly
  (disk inconsistency, raid crash on VM host disk where the webserver vm resides)
  I've switched the BinkD service finaly on Tuesday the 5th, 2022. And also the website and also the FTP server and also the MySQL database to the new prepared Windows 2012r2 machine. BinkD wasn't an issue, nor the webserver. The FTP server reports often failures on security level access, that I have to investigate later.
  In the meantime, I've identified an issue with the MySQL database connectivity. Most of the old accounts don't work anymore caused by a change in the password schema and also by a change of the source machine, that has to do the updates. A couple of database connectivity based applications where handled by the Win 2008r2 server in the past, the same way other Win32 tools did work under Windows 2008r2 32bit. But now with Windows 2012r2 in place also the platform changed from 32bit to 64bit and most tools stopped working. For some tools I've implemented a powershell 64bit wrapper, doing the same job that other tools did before and now under 64bit as a powershell script. But this did open some questions. Should the scripts still running under Windows 2012r2 64bit? or shall I move the tools to the background working machine, that is still doing a lot of background jobs?
  I've decided, to move the NT jobs to the background machine, including a couple of php scripts with MySQL database connectivity. So I had to implement the PHP and MySQL connectivity onto the background machine including setting up some new database connections, including reestablish database connectivity for the php script mysql db access.
  Now I still have to recover some external connections.
- [2022-07-08]
  BinkD filerequests failing - VIreqClp no 32bit program
  switched back to VIreq/w32, fixed.
  
  Update [05.04.2023]
  Freq works, Service requests not (CDP node broken) search for a solution
- [2022-07-08]
  The next challange is to get the win32 BinkD machine into auto boot mode, auto logon and autostart all services and processes.
  
  Host Autologin Autorun Startup Script VM-Autostart: C:\VMware\VMwarePlayer\vmrun -T ws start "H:\VMware\Data\W2K12r2\W2012r2AMB3\W2012r2AMB3.vmx" to start VMware player guest system Guest Autologin autostart services: (wamp) Apache/2.4.53 (win64) (wamp) MySQL64 (wamp) mariadb64 -and- with 2 Autorun Startup scripts ncon.cmd (net connection and services and program startups) drive mappings startup FTP server startup BinkD running batch Wamp manager startup script starting wampmanager.exe to control Wampserver environment
- Apache2 v2.4.53.1 access issues
  The moved Apache2 website now moved a couple of days. In a default activity on smartphone to download the current nodelist I'm running into a download error. Checking this issue, I've discovered, that after upgrade all external filebase access is running in a dumb no file found or access denied issue.
  
  All directives following the below syntax (all directory seperators with slash)
  
  Alias /garbcoll "I:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.53.1/wwwroot/garbcoll" <Directory "I:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.53.1/wwwroot/garbcoll">
  are running as expected.
  All directives following the other syntax (some directory seperators with backslash)
  
  Alias /bbsfiles "\\ZSH1AMB1\VOL3\bbs2web\www" <Directory "\\ZSH1AMB1\VOL3\bbs2web\www">
  are running into the file not found or access denied issue.
  
  After a couple of experiments, the overall slash syntax results in expected results:
  Alias /bbsfiles "//ZSH1AMB1/VOL3/bbs2web/www" <Directory "//ZSH1AMB1/VOL3/bbs2web/www">
  So, reconfiguring the whole httpd.conf replacing all Alias entries with slash as directory path seperators now ending in a successful directory access and download of files (as expected).
Internal firewall and vpn router is: IPfire 2.27
Running as VM under Hyper-V 2012r2 (that is IPv6 capable)
Searching for an alternate firewall and vpn router, I'm testing OPNsense.
Still open question: How to transfer IPfire firewall, forwarding and VPN configuration to OPNsense?
[31.12.2022] OPNsense test running on new Proxmox machine since 31.12.2022
[09.03.2023 and 10.03.2023] Bootcamp: Proxmox, OPNsense and get IPv6 running


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