zmprov does not change settings

[niklaas]

Hi there!

I just recently installed Zimbra on my server. The entire day I worked with the installation, configuring it and getting to know Zimbra more and more. Now, everything seems to run quite well -- except one thing: I cannot do any changes with the command

zmprov

This is what I'm doing: Logging on to the machine, not as root (because I'm using sudo) and then executing the command

sudo su - zimbra

to change my current Zimbra setup. So, because I want to run Apache parallelly, I decided to change

zimbraMailPort

to 81 as described in Provide HTTP(s) Integration with Apache - Zimbra :: Wiki. I'm running the following commands

zmprov ms myserver.com zimbraMailPort 81

and I do not get any error message, so I think everything worked fine. I'm restarting Zimbra with

zmcontrol strop
zmcontrol start

If I check the configuration with

zmprov gacf | grep zimbraMailPort

it still says it uses port 80 for the webmail client and not 81 (as I actually configured).

I'm stuck with this for some hours now, I already read through the wiki and the forums. E.g. I also tried the commands of [SOLVED] Changing zimbraMailPort but when I grep the ports after restarting Zimbra also nothing changed. So maybe

zmprov

does not change anything at all?

Maybe it's important to mention that I firstly setted up Zimbra with another hostname (that did not have a correct MX record) and changed it afterwards with

/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetservername -n hostname2

Is it maybe better to reinstall Zimbra again with the second (and correct) hostname from start? Does this affect the functionality of zmprov in any case? Because actually

zmcontrol status

says everything is running...?! To be honest, I'm a bit confused.

I already had a look at [SOLVED] zmprov change ZimbraMailPort silently fails but there is actually no desciption about solving the problem and the post is already a bit old. So this didn't help but it seems the problem was the same (but I do not really understand what the primary author did to solve his problem).

Hopefully somebody's got an idea.

Thanks for your help!

Niklaas

[niklaas]

Okay, there is an update: It seems zmprov does change the port (firstly, I did not recognize this because the Apache server was not configured in the right way, too) but

zmprov gacf | grep zimbraMailPort

does still show the old settings. This is actually an improvement but it would also be important to have a look at the real settings... Any idea?

Niklaas

[niklaas]

I found out something new that might explain why zmproves changes the settings but does not show the change: If I type

zmprov gs myserver.com| grep zimbraMailPort

I get the right port number 81. So my question is:

What's the difference between the two commands "zmprov gacf" and "zmprov gs" and why do they show different settings? Is there something that needs to be fixed?