The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch Version 1.

0 Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> Last edited 06/26/2008 This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.2 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSLcapable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of CentOS 5.2, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well. I will use the following software:

Web Server: Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.1.6 Database Server: MySQL 5.0 Mail Server: Postfix DNS Server: BIND9 (chrooted) FTP Server: Proftpd POP3/IMAP server: Dovecot Webalizer for web site statistics

In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Requirements To install such a system you will need the following:

Download the CentOS 5.2 DVD or the six CentOS 5.2 CDs from a mirror next to you (the list of mirrors can be found here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/). a fast internet connection.

2 Preliminary Note In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100 and the gateway 192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

3 Install The Base System Boot from your first CentOS 5.2 CD (CD 1) or the CentOS 5.2 DVD. Press <ENTER> at the boot prompt:

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It can take a long time to test the installation media so we skip this test here:

The welcome screen of the CentOS installer appears. Click on Next:

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Choose your language next:

Select your keyboard layout:

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I'm installing CentOS 5.2 on a fresh system, so I answer Yes to the question Would you like to initialize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?

Now we must select a partitioning scheme for our installation. For simplicity's sake I select Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout. This will result in a small /boot and a large / partition as well as a swap partition. Of course, you're free to partition your hard drive however you like it. Then I hit Next:

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Answer the following question (Are you sure you want to do this?) with Yes:

On to the network settings. The default setting here is to configure the network interfaces with DHCP, but we are installing a server, so static IP addresses are not a bad idea... Click on the Edit button at the top right.

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In the window that pops up uncheck Use dynamic IP configuration (DHCP) and Enable IPv6 support and give your network card a static IP address (in this tutorial I'm using the IP address 192.168.0.100 for demonstration purposes) and a suitable netmask (e.g. 255.255.255.0; if you are not sure about the right values, http://www.subnetmask.info might help you):

Set the hostname manually, e.g. server1.example.com, and enter a gateway (e.g. 192.168.0.1) and up to two DNS servers (e.g. 213.191.92.86 and 145.253.2.75):

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Choose your time zone:

Give root a password:

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Now we select the software we want to install. Select nothing but Server (uncheck everything else). Also don't check Packages from CentOS Extras. Then check Customize now, and click on Next:

Now we must select the package groups we want to install. Select Editors, Text-based Internet, Development Libraries, Development Tools, DNS Name Server, FTP Server, Mail Server, MySQL Database, Server Configuration Tools, Web Server, Administration Tools, Base, and System Tools (unselect all other package groups) and click on Next:
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The installer checks the dependencies of the selected packages:

Click on Next to start the installation:

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The hard drive is being formatted:

The installation begins. This will take a few minutes:

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Finally, the installation is complete, and you can remove your CD or DVD from the computer and reboot it:

After the reboot, you will see this screen. Select Firewall configuration and hit Run Tool:

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I want to install ISPConfig at the end of this tutorial which comes with its own firewall. That's why I disable the default CentOS firewall now. Of course, you are free to leave it on and configure it to your needs (but then you shouldn't use any other firewall later on as it will most probably interfere with the CentOS firewall). SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was causing the problem). Therefore I disable it, too (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on). Hit OK afterwards:

Then leave the Setup Agent by selecting Exit:

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Then log in as root and reboot the system so that your changes can be applied: reboot Now, on to the configuration... 4 Adjust /etc/hosts

Next we edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this: vi /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

5 Configure Additional IP Addresses (This section is totally optional. It just shows how to add additional IP addresses to your network interface eth0 if you need more than one IP address. If you're fine with one IP address, you can skip this section.) Let's assume our network interface is eth0. Then there is a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 which contains the settings for eth0. We can use this as a sample for our new virtual network interface eth0:0: cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 Now we want to use the IP address 192.168.0.101 on the virtual interface eth0:0. Therefore we open the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfgeth0:0 and modify it as follows (we can leave out the HWADDR line as it is the same physical network card): vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0:0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 IPADDR=192.168.0.101 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0
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ONBOOT=yes Afterwards we have to restart the network: /etc/init.d/network restart You might also want to adjust /etc/hosts after you have added new IP addresses, although this is not necessary. Now run ifconfig You should now see your new IP address in the output: [root@server1 ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:B1:97:E1 inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb1:97e1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:310 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:28475 (27.8 KiB) TX bytes:72116 (70.4 KiB) Interrupt:177 Base address:0x1400 eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:B1:97:E1 inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:177 Base address:0x1400 Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

lo

[root@server1 ~]#

6 Disable The Firewall And SELinux (You can skip this chapter if you have already disabled the firewall and SELinux at the end of the basic system installation (in the Setup Agent).) I want to install ISPConfig at the end of this tutorial which comes with its own firewall. That's why I disable the default CentOS firewall now. Of course, you are free to leave it on and configure it to your needs (but then you shouldn't use any other firewall later on as it will most probably interfere with the CentOS firewall). SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was causing the problem). Therefore I disable it, too (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on). Run system-config-securitylevel Set both Security Level and SELinux to Disabled and hit OK:

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Afterwards we must reboot the system: reboot

7 Install Some Software First we import the GPG keys for software packages: rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY* Then we update our existing packages on the system: yum update Now we install some software packages that are needed later on: yum install fetchmail wget bzip2 unzip zip nmap openssl lynx fileutils ncftp gcc gcc-c++ 8 Quota

(If you have chosen a different partitioning scheme than I did, you must adjust this chapter so that quota applies to the partitions where you need it.) To install quota, we run this command: yum install quota Edit /etc/fstab and add ,usrquota,grpquota to the / partition (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00): vi /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot tmpfs /dev/shm devpts /dev/pts sysfs /sys
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defaults,usrquota,grpquota defaults defaults gid=5,mode=620 defaults 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0

proc /proc /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap Then run touch /aquota.user /aquota.group chmod 600 /aquota.* mount -o remount / quotacheck -avugm quotaon -avug to enable quota.

proc swap

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0 0 0 0

9 Install A Chrooted DNS Server (BIND9) To install a chrooted BIND9, we do this: yum install bind-chroot Then do this: chmod 755 /var/named/ chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/ chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/ chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/named/ chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/run/ chmod 777 /var/named/chroot/var/run/named/ cd /var/named/chroot/var/named/ ln -s ../../ chroot cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/var/named/named.local /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.local cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/var/named/named.root /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.root touch /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf chkconfig --levels 235 named on /etc/init.d/named start BIND will run in a chroot jail under /var/named/chroot/var/named/. I will use ISPConfig to configure BIND (zones, etc.).

10 MySQL (5.0) To install MySQL, we do this: yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server: chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on /etc/init.d/mysqld start Now check that networking is enabled. Run netstat -tap | grep mysql It should show a line like this: [root@server1 ~]# netstat -tap | grep mysql tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* [root@server1 ~]#

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2584/mysqld

If it does not, edit /etc/my.cnf and comment out the option skip-networking: vi /etc/my.cnf
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[...] #skip-networking [...] and restart your MySQL server: /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Run mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!). 11 Postfix With SMTP-AUTH And TLS

Now we install Postfix and Dovecot (Dovecot will be our POP3/IMAP server): yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot Next we configure SMTP-AUTH and TLS: postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain =' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination' postconf -e 'inet_interfaces = all' postconf -e 'mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8' We must edit /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf so that Postfix allows PLAIN and LOGIN logins. On a 64Bit Centos 5.2 you must edit the file /usr/lib64/sasl2/smtpd.conf instead. It should look like this: vi /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login Afterwards we create the certificates for TLS: mkdir /etc/postfix/ssl cd /etc/postfix/ssl/ openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /etc/hosts -out smtpd.key 1024 chmod 600 smtpd.key openssl req -new -key smtpd.key -out smtpd.csr openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in smtpd.csr -signkey smtpd.key -out smtpd.crt openssl rsa -in smtpd.key -out smtpd.key.unencrypted mv -f smtpd.key.unencrypted smtpd.key openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650 Next we configure Postfix for TLS: postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_auth_only = no' postconf -e 'smtp_use_tls = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_use_tls = yes' postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key' postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt' postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem'
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postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1' postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes' postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s' postconf -e 'tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom' Then we set the hostname in our Postfix installation (make sure you replace server1.example.com with your own hostname): postconf -e 'myhostname = server1.example.com' After these configuration steps you should now have a /etc/postfix/main.cf that looks like this (I have removed all comments from it): cat /etc/postfix/main.cf queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix mail_owner = postfix inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases debug_peer_level = 2 debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5 sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix setgid_group = postdrop html_directory = no manpage_directory = /usr/share/man sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom myhostname = server1.example.com By default, CentOS' Dovecot daemon provides only IMAP and IMAPs services. Because we also want POP3 and POP3s we must configure Dovecot to do so. We edit /etc/dovecot.conf and enable the line protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s: vi /etc/dovecot.conf [...] # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: imap imaps pop3 pop3s # If you only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to "none". protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces.
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# "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. [...] Now start Postfix, saslauthd, and Dovecot: chkconfig --levels 235 sendmail off chkconfig --levels 235 postfix on chkconfig --levels 235 saslauthd on chkconfig --levels 235 dovecot on /etc/init.d/sendmail stop /etc/init.d/postfix start /etc/init.d/saslauthd start /etc/init.d/dovecot start To see if SMTP-AUTH and TLS work properly now run the following command: telnet localhost 25 After you have established the connection to your Postfix mail server type ehlo localhost If you see the lines 250-STARTTLS and 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN everything is fine. [root@server1 ssl]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. 220 server1.example.com ESMTP Postfix ehlo localhost 250-server1.example.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. [root@server1 ssl]# Type quit to return to the system's shell.

11.1 Maildir Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration.
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If you do not want to install ISPConfig, then you must configure Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir (you can also do this if you use ISPConfig - it doesn't hurt ;-)): postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' postconf -e 'mailbox_command =' /etc/init.d/postfix restart 12 Apache2 With PHP & Ruby

Now we install Apache with PHP (this is PHP 5.1.6): yum install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel Then edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and change DirectoryIndex to [...] DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php3 index.pl [...] Now configure your system to start Apache at boot time: chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on Start Apache: /etc/init.d/httpd start

12.1 Disable PHP Globally (If you do not plan to install ISPConfig on this server, please skip this section!) In ISPConfig you will configure PHP on a per-website basis, i.e. you can specify which website can run PHP scripts and which one cannot. This can only work if PHP is disabled globally because otherwise all websites would be able to run PHP scripts, no matter what you specify in ISPConfig. To disable PHP globally, we edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf and comment out the AddHandler and AddType lines: vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf # # PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it # easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. # LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so # # Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension. # #AddHandler php5-script .php #AddType text/html .php # # Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory # indexes. # DirectoryIndex index.php #
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# Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print .phps # files as PHP source code: # #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Afterwards we restart Apache: /etc/init.d/httpd restart

12.2 Installing mod_ruby For CentOS 5.2, there's no mod_ruby package available, so we must compile it ourselves. First we install some prerequisites: yum install httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel Next we download and install mod_ruby as follows: cd /tmp wget http://www.modruby.net/archive/mod_ruby-1.2.6.tar.gz tar zxvf mod_ruby-1.2.6.tar.gz cd mod_ruby-1.2.6/ ./configure.rb --with-apr-includes=/usr/include/apr-1 make make install Finally we must add the mod_ruby module to the Apache configuration, so we create the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ruby.conf... vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ruby.conf LoadModule ruby_module modules/mod_ruby.so ... and restart Apache: /etc/init.d/httpd restart

13 ProFTPd ISPConfig has better support for proftpd than vsftpd, so let's remove vsftpd: yum remove vsftpd Because CentOS has no proftpd package, we have to compile Proftpd manually: cd /tmp/ wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.1.tar.gz tar xvfz proftpd-1.3.1.tar.gz cd proftpd-1.3.1/ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc make make install cd .. rm -fr proftpd-1.3.1* The proftpd binary gets installed in /usr/local/sbin, but we need it in /usr/sbin, so we create a symlink: ln -s /usr/local/sbin/proftpd /usr/sbin/proftpd Now create the init script /etc/init.d/proftpd: vi /etc/init.d/proftpd
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#!/bin/sh # $Id: proftpd.init,v 1.1 2004/02/26 17:54:30 thias Exp $ # # proftpd This shell script takes care of starting and stopping # proftpd. # # chkconfig: - 80 30 # description: ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus towards \ # simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. \ # It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, \ # and a highly customizable server infrastructure, \ # including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, \ # anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility. # processname: proftpd # config: /etc/proftp.conf # pidfile: /var/run/proftpd.pid # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 [ -x /usr/sbin/proftpd ] || exit 0 RETVAL=0 prog="proftpd" start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " daemon proftpd RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/proftpd } stop() { echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: " killproc proftpd RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/proftpd } # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; status) status proftpd RETVAL=$? ;; restart) stop start ;; condrestart) if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/proftpd ]; then stop start fi ;; reload) echo -n $"Re-reading $prog configuration: " killproc proftpd -HUP RETVAL=$? echo
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;; *) echo "Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status}" exit 1 esac exit $RETVAL Then we make the init script executable: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/proftpd Next we open /etc/proftpd.conf and change Group to nobody: vi /etc/proftpd.conf [...] Group [...]

nobody

For security reasons you can also add the following lines to /etc/proftpd.conf (thanks to Reinaldo Carvalho; more information can be found here: http://proftpd.org/localsite/Userguide/linked/userguide.html): vi /etc/proftpd.conf [...] DefaultRoot ~ IdentLookups off ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready." [...] Now we can create the system startup links for Proftpd: chkconfig --levels 235 proftpd on And finally we start Proftpd: /etc/init.d/proftpd start 14 Webalizer

To install webalizer, just run yum install webalizer

15 Synchronize The System Clock If you want to have the system clock synchronized with an NTP server do the following: yum install ntp chkconfig --levels 235 ntpd on ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org /etc/init.d/ntpd start

16 Install Some Perl Modules ISPConfig comes with SpamAssassin which needs a few Perl modules to work. We install the required Perl modules with a single command:
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yum install perl-HTML-Parser perl-DBI perl-Net-DNS perl-Digest-SHA1

17 The End The configuration of the server is now finished, and if you wish you can now install ISPConfig on it.

17.1 A Note On SuExec If you want to run CGI scripts under suExec, you should specify /var/www as the home directory for websites created by ISPConfig as CentOS' suExec is compiled with /var/www as Doc_Root. Run /usr/sbin/suexec -V and the output should look like this: [root@server1 ~]# /usr/sbin/suexec -V -D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www" -D AP_GID_MIN=100 -D AP_HTTPD_USER="apache" -D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/httpd/suexec.log" -D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" -D AP_UID_MIN=500 -D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html" [root@server1 ~]# So if you want to use suExec with ISPconfig, don't change the default web root (which is /var/www) if you use expert mode during the ISPConfig installation (in standard mode you can't change the web root anyway so you'll be able to use suExec in any case).

18 Links

CentOS: http://www.centos.org ISPConfig: http://www.ispconfig.org

yum install zlib-devel is Submitted by FractalizeR (registered user) on Sat, 2008-08-30 19:56. yum install zlib-devel is also needed to compile PHP for ISPConfig. reply | view as pdf yum install openssl-devel is Submitted by FractalizeR (registered user) on Sat, 2008-08-30 19:53. yum install openssl-devel is also needed for ISPConfig to successfully complete PHP compilation reply | view as pdf Re: yum install openssl-devel is Submitted by admin (registered user) on Sun, 2008-08-31 09:17. These packages are already installed if you select the same package groups as I did during the initial system installation. reply | view as pdf ncftp Submitted by StealthyC (registered user) on Wed, 2008-07-23 14:27. ncftp does not install during the yum install command. ncftp is not listed during a yum list ncftp*

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reply | view as pdf Re: ncftp Submitted by Noodle2732 (not registered) on Sun, 2008-09-14 16:19. I had the same prob, i managed to get around it though after a bit of searching google. btw i am a linux n00b so if this is the wrong waay to do things then i apologize. I had to add the Karan extras testing repo and set gpgcheck=0 then it installed vi /etc/yum.conf add this to the bottom: [ kbs-CentOS-Testing] name=CentOS.Karan.Org-ELS - Testing gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt enabled=1 baseurl=http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ Then import the key rpm --import http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt

And then finally install ncftp yum install ncftp reply | view as pdf Re: Re: ncftp Submitted by gobok (not registered) on Mon, 2008-12-15 05:22. thanks for the ncftp and the updated repo is supposed to be in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo reply | view as pdf Re: Re: ncftp Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2008-11-19 04:32. worked for me, thanks Noodle reply | view as pdf

mysqladmin Submitted by rezilient1 (not registered) on Tue, 2008-11-18 21:10. This line doesn't work for me, same issue for anyone else? Is it important? I confirmed the root password was successfull set, what does this do? # mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword reply | view as pdf Re: mysqladmin Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2009-03-16 18:24.
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use this to fix it. worked for me. reply | view as pdf Re: mysqladmin Submitted by Milan (not registered) on Thu, 2009-01-15 14:45. Read step 4 of this howto carefully. It is important to assign server1.example.com (replace with Your server name) to actual IP address of the server. reply | view as pdf Re: mysqladmin Submitted by Augusto (not registered) on Wed, 2009-01-07 13:05. It doesn't seem to work fine. I can't find the option "-h" for the command mysqladmin: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqladmin.html If you can access to the mysql server, then it's ok: [root@hello tmp]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 14 to server version: 5.1 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql>

reply | view as pdf Re: Re: mysqladmin Submitted by Narcarsiss (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-06 02:42. Easy fix Apply -p after password for example; mysqladmin -h Xeon.com -u root password -p ******************** Cheers Narcarsiss reply | view as pdf

ProFTPd Installation Tutorial Submitted by Mike Shafer (not registered) on Fri, 2009-05-15 03:31. Great bit of work. I followed this to the letter and it worked perfectly. Learned a few new tricks on the process! Thanks for the efforts. Mike Shafer reply | view as pdf Cant install Proftpd Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2009-02-11 12:27. Hy This tutorial is very good but I have a problem. When I try to install proftpd it just don't stop to checking. I leave server to install 24 hours but it still checking. I can't complete install. I saw an warning message: make: Warning: File `Make.rules.in' has modification time 1e+08 s in the future What could be a problem?

reply | view as pdf Great Tut!!

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Submitted by Jeremy (not registered) on Mon, 2008-12-01 17:54. Great Tutorial. I have always setup LAMP for local development, but have been wanting to do some smaller sites in house. Followed your tutorial almost step-by-step (I prefer building php). reply | view as pdf This manual is missing just Submitted by FractalizeR (registered user) on Sat, 2008-08-30 19:38. This manual is missing just one thing relative to ISPConfig. It requires flex package to be installed (2.2.25 at least). So, `yum install flex` is needed reply | view as pdf Bottom of Form In the spirit of helpfulness,,,, Submitted by Jason Barnett (not registered) on Mon, 2009-02-09 20:21. Here are some quick and dirty instructions for installing ISPConfig: cd /tmp http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-2.2.29.tar.gz?download tar xvzf ISPConfig-2.2.29.tar.gz cd install_ispconfig ./setup Accepting all the defaults will do the job quite nicely. reply | view as pdf GRACIAS!!! Submitted by Elber (not registered) on Sun, 2009-02-22 02:58. Muchas gracias amigos (Thank so much!!!) Excelente documentacin!!! reply | view as pdf I don't want to seem ungrateful... Submitted by Jason Barnett (not registered) on Mon, 2009-02-09 20:13. ...but after seven pages of excellent documentation I would have expected the job to be finished properly with detailed steps on how to install ISPConfig. In my opinion this takes the shine of an otherwise excellent how-to. reply | view as pdf Really useful tutorial but... How do I install mysql for PHP Submitted by Simon (not registered) on Mon, 2009-01-19 14:52. I followed this tutorial through and everything works great but PHP doesn't load mysql by default. I check phpinfo() and it doesn't show mysql as loaded. I know its a bit of a noob question reply | view as pdf I still needed the following Submitted by rezilient (not registered) on Thu, 2008-11-20 04:39. I still needed the following in order to install ISPConfig 3.0. postgresql-devel is needed by courier-authlib-0.61.0-1.x86_64 expect is needed by courier-authlib-0.61.0-1.x86_64 /usr/include/ltdl.h is needed by courier-authlib-0.61.0-1.x86_64 and it should be obvious.

reply | view as pdf Re: I still needed the following Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2008-12-31 01:03.

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I followed this setup to install ISPConfig, and sure, this tutorial may be comprehensive, but it left me with A TON of unanswered questions and problems that made it seem not worth putting in the time to finish. Honestly, at this point, I may just wipe it and install a fresh copy of Centos and pay for cpanel. It will be cheaper in the end..... reply | view as pdf On the 64bits version of Submitted by PanzerThorr (not registered) on Tue, 2008-11-18 11:08. On the 64bits version of CentOS i need to do this because the installation crash : yum install openssl-devel flex zlib-devel libxml2-devel libpng-devel libxslt-devel reply | view as pdf flex missing Submitted by Kuzmich (not registered) on Fri, 2008-11-14 11:58. It is need flex for ./setup yum install flex reply | view as pdf Thank You Submitted by ip-adresa (not registered) on Thu, 2008-09-11 10:57. Thank You for great tutorial! I am going to install CentOS on my small server. Well done :-) reply | view as pdf Re: Thank You Submitted by javsan (not registered) on Mon, 2008-10-13 06:41. Really, a good manual. Thanks you very much. reply | view as pdf Bottom of Form

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