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If your machine has a firewall, you need to at least unblock the ports necessary to connect to your Web server. For Tomcat, the default port for serving HTTP traffic is 8080.
Debian Package
The installation steps are fairly simple and could probably be a single Bash shell script. Or even a deb package Imagine this whole install guide being replaced with simply sudo apt-get install mifosThere is a shell script to help Ubuntu users install Mifos. See application/release/install-ubuntu.sh in the head repository. There's also a script to build a debian package that works fairly well, it's called resources/linux/build_deb_package.sh. If you are interested in helping us further improve our debian package, please see the volunteer project page.
Security and Encryption
Mifos v1.1 provides no encryption and little security. Current discussion appears to recommend securing HTTP traffic over SSL, and possibly also using a VPN.
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