Any suggestions for people who don't want:

• postfix
• courier
• saslauthd
• rkhunter
• binutils
• Amavisd-new
• SpamAssassin
• Clamav 
• FCGI
• suExec
• Pear
• PureFTPd
• Quota
• MyDNS
• Vlogger
• Webalizer
• Jailkit
• fail2ban
• SquirrelMail

on their server?  Just a plain old AMP server that someone might want to manage with a web interface?

I'm currently running debian 5.0 (lenny) with isp config...

all is running just fine, install within 30 mins...perfect..

I'm currently trying to find out where the .vhost are being created.

it should be in /root/ispconfig/scripts/lin/lib.config.php

but i can's seem to trace the file..

Any suggestions?

Hi to all

i'm installed ispconfig 3 trunk to debian lenny 5.0.3 i see your guide and work but only to database, when i create a new domain site, domain email ftp user shell user and database.

 

to /var/www/clients there are not other such as in /var/vmail and in mysql

 How i can resolve it

Great work, nearly everything works perfect.
There's only one problem for me. If I want to use phpmyadmin I get a blank screen. I'm not automatically logged in neither I have a login screen. This happens as user (where I only see my DBs) and also as reseller or  admin.
Is there someone with the same problem?
If I will find out why, I will post the solution.

Hi

First of all I'm sorry for my bad english.

This Server isn't secure, I haven't seen any elaboration about DoS like synflooding, portscanning, ping of death ...

I wouldn't call this Server perfect because it's easy to Access skiddies, spam-mail-bots and so on

 check http.www://netfilter.org for some more detailed explenations about security-problems

Thanx a million, works like a charm!!!

hi folks,

thanks for this perfect tutorial.

it was working very well on a vserver with debian 5

the only thing i had to change was debian version from 5.0 to 5.0.3 in

/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/lib/install.lib.php 

to run the  php -q install.php script

 

thanks a lot

 

ulf

 

hello, i have the same problem when i do the symbolic link to webmail

ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail webmail

in debian etch it is greatfull, but not here, i just can go to web page of squirrelmail with my ip and not with the domain. if i choose the domain the page it is completly in blank.

any ideas???

thanks

 

You should mention that you need to do a:

 dpkg-reconfigure locales

 

and enable de_DE.iso-8839-1 for germand - just an example...

 

otherwise you will not be able to use squirrelmail in any other language than english.

 

Regards,

Andreas

Installed ISPConfig 3.0.1.6 prefectly with the use of this guide..

Awesome work :D

it shows this error.

Warning: Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/phpmyadmin/index.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/clients/client1/web5/web:/var/www/clients/client1/web5/tmp:/usr/share/php5) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in Unknown on line 0

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/usr/share/phpmyadmin/index.php' (include_path='.') in Unknown on line 0

 /web[website_id]

 

maybe its this: (/var/www/clients/client1/web5/web:/var/www/clients/client1/web5/tmp:/usr/share/php5)

 Great tutorial. THANKS.

 Im at the login page and i dont remember setting a user or password for squirrel admin.

The tutorial doesn't indicate if you have to create a user or password?

any help would be great. Thanks in advanced.

Guys and Gals,

I was here about 2 years ago. Thought I'd give it another go with Linux. I couldn't get it installed.

Yesterday I tried installing CentOS 5.3 and ISPconfig with the perfect server instructions on VMware WS 6.5.3.

"Determining IP information for ETH0   [FAILED]"

After a while a black screen with a blinking underscore cursor top left of the screen.

I deleted the VM and installed a couple of times more. Same results.

I realise that I can ignore the ETH0 timeout because ETH0 is by default for a cabled network. (although I do not have a wireless setup, but it possibly has to do with VMware)

But that black screen with a blinking cursor, why, why why so Spartan ?

Then I read in the ISPconfig readme that CentOS support was experimental, and Debian or Ubuntu were adviced for a production server. Sjeeez! I need to test some scripts in a "production" environment similar to the VPS they are going to be installed to.

So I come over here, and I see all the problems. I'm not even attempting an installation.

There are so many clever, bright and inventive developers in the Open Source world. What's so difficult to come up with a decent installer ?

All I can say is, see you again in 2 years. Nothing has changed. How the f.ck are we supposed to leave Windows behind us, and move to a Nix OS with this cr.p still going on ?

Okay you can access ispconfig remotely as well as squirrelmail. My new issue is I tried to login into SquirrelMail with the username and passwords that I login to the server with and none of them work. I even created a new user and tried to login. I have searched the web trying to find ways to troubleshoot but to no avail. Any ideas???

Maybe I missed it but how do I configure ISPconfig without installing the desktop? You can only configure it from the host computer right? is there a way to bring up the browser from the command line? Sorry if it seems novice but this is the first debian server I have setup without installing the desktop. In the etch setup instructions I installed the desktop and then once the base system was installed it was easier because I could bring up the web browser with the instructions and just copy and paste apt-get install instructions instead of typing them.

If you are experiencing FTP problems you probably have an OpenVZ container based hosting solution. If you can't get your host to run the vzctl set $VPSID --capability on the server then You wont be able to get your SQL-FTP users running.

 

Thanks for the help... your tutorial was perfect!  I had been using an O'Reilly book with little success, but your tutorial was rock solid.

Greetings!Very nice tutorial,i followed it step by step.

The problem is that in my case i can't acess my webmail server/ipsconfig3 from nowhere except the host.I done some google searching,and forum searching but nothing did the trick.

I have no great experience with servers,this is my debut and i do it mosly for practice.

If anyone have any ideas or can help would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

 

Everything worked okay.  Only two things didn't work for me.

 !) can not access server via server1.example.com (that's just an example), have to use the IP.

2)  the default password and username for ISPConfig 3, except after changing the password neither the default or what I changed it to works.

Dear falko,

I have follow your tutorial step by step, and it's all work perfect without error:) 

Very great tutorial!! Please keep posting, and i will waiting for your next tut...

Excellent!

I enabled squirrelmail for each virtual domain by adding the following line to the Sites:Options:Apache Directives...

Redirect /webmail http://privateserver.com/webmail

This is kinda ugly in that the user is redirected away from their domain.  If instead I use...

Alias /webmail /var/www/webmail

...I get a page saying something like "file not found" in the web browser. Is there a clean/preferred way to enable squirrelmail within each virtual domain?

Thanks

You need to install Bastille for firewall functionality if IspConfig 3

# apt-get install bastille -y

 

Solution:?!

ClamAV update process started at Wed Jun 24 05:34:37 2009
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.95.1 Recommended version: 0.95.2
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cld is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42, builder: sven)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 9501, sigs: 30936, f-level: 43, builder: guitar)
--------------------------------------
Received signal: wake up
ClamAV update process started at Wed Jun 24 06:34:36 2009
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.95.1 Recommended version: 0.95.2
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cld is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42, builder: sven)
Trying host db.local.clamav.net (138.123.96.134)...
Downloading daily-9502.cdiff [100%]
daily.cld updated (version: 9502, sigs: 30937, f-level: 43, builder: acab)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 42, recommended = 43
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
Database updated (575972 signatures) from db.local.clamav.net (IP: 138.123.96.134)
Clamd successfully notified about the update.

postfix:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Restarting web server: apache2 failed!

postfix:~# vi /var/log/apache2/error.log

unable to start piped log program ' /usr/sbin/vlogger -s access.log -t "%Y%m%d-access.log" /var/log/ispconfig/httpd': No such file or directory
Unable to open logs
 

Nice tutorial and everything is working but the mail server.
Though I read the following error appeared several times, none of the mentioned solutions worked out for me.
For my testing I used the provided VM and modified it aggording to my needs.

I changed the /etc/hosts and also the hostname but it is still showing server1.example.com
hostname and hostname -f are giving the new name...

But more urgent is:

I always get the error: ERROR: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

part of my /var/log/mail.log:

 

Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/qmgr[2790]: 8C28217C24E: from=<www-data@server1.example.com>, size=995, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/smtpd[3406]: connect from p4FD72694.dip0.t-ipconnect.de[79.215.38.148]
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/smtp[3405]: warning: host mlabs.mine.nu[79.215.38.148]:25 greeted me with my own hostname server1.example.com
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/smtp[3405]: warning: host mlabs.mine.nu[79.215.38.148]:25 replied to HELO/EHLO with my own hostname server1.example.com
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/smtp[3405]: 8C28217C24E: to=<test@mlabs.mine.nu>, relay=mlabs.mine.nu[79.215.38.148]:25, delay=4669, delays=4669/0.05/0.2/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for mlabs.mine.nu loops back to myself)
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/smtpd[3406]: disconnect from p4FD72694.dip0.t-ipconnect.de[79.215.38.148]
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/cleanup[3410]: 6CBBE17C180: message-id=<20090601183431.6CBBE17C180@server1.example.com>
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/qmgr[2790]: 6CBBE17C180: from=, size=2895, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/bounce[3408]: 8C28217C24E: sender non-delivery notification: 6CBBE17C180
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/qmgr[2790]: 8C28217C24E: removed
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/local[3411]: 6CBBE17C180: to=<www-data@server1.example.com>, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION")
Jun  1 20:34:31 mlabs postfix/qmgr[2790]: 6CBBE17C180: removed

I'd appreciate any advise.

Hi,

i get this error when i tri to upgrade ispconfig to last version

 server1:/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install# php -q install.php

 

ERROR: Stopped: Database already contains some tables.
 

If you are doing this setup on a VPS system (OpenVZ container), after the installation you should do the following steps:

1) Shutdown the vps

2) On the openvz server run the following script

VPSID=110
for CAP in CHOWN DAC_READ_SEARCH SETGID SETUID NET_BIND_SERVICE NET_ADMIN SYS_CHROOT SYS_NICE CHOWN DAC_READ_SEARCH SETGID SETUID NET_BIND_SERVICE NET_ADMIN SYS_CHROOT SYS_NICE
do
vzctl set $VPSID --capability ${CAP}:on --save
done

3) start the vps, and that's it! Your pure-ftp will now work without problems.

Greetings .

One thing, which login info should readers use to login to SquirrelMail??? There was no prompt for user nor pass so i ASS-ume that it was root and root pass (that did not work)  so I tried the user I created (admin....) and pass, but still nothing.

Any ideas???

thank you for your work. SUPER SUPER SUPER.........good luck

I was getting an error upon trying this recently and here's how to fix it. The error I was receving was:

"Notice: Undefined variable: distver in /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/lib/install.lib.php on line 135"

To fix this,

     nano /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/lib/install.lib.php

search for the distver

     ctrl+w distver

edit where it says 5.0 to make it say 5.0.1

     [...]
     if(trim(file_get_contents('/etc/debian_version')) == '5.0.1' |...
     [...]

and then try the install again

     php -q install.php

 

Worked a treat for me! Thanks a million howtoforge! You have saved me ALOT of random searching once again and provide a source I can trust!

Install: perfect, 100% OK.

Thank you very much.

Hi Falko:

Thank you for your work.

 I had a problem with mydns not compiling as it apparently wants source files for either mysql or postgresql.  This is found on the ./configure.

Also a little scared to use this as you've not enabled the cert and started the admin process as https.

 Thanks again for your work, and best wishes.

--Paul

Very important to know...

To make PureFTPD show hidden files you have to create a new file "DisplayDotFiles" in "/etc/pure-ftpd/conf/" with the value "yes". Falko or s.o. else already mentioned it in the english ispc forum, but i think this setting belongs to a "PERFECT" server :)

echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DisplayDotFiles

Excellent write up! good job

Worked almost perfectly. Did everything word for word except at the end where you want to log into ispconfig. You show as either your domain /8080 or ip /8080 neither worked but i tried using /ispconfig and it came right up. Thank you very much for this tutorial!!!!!!!!

Once again, it was a flawless installation, in under 2 hours time, ad working like a charm, now running to discover the new ISPConfig... Thanks Falko !

 

WW

I follow instructions, but ISPConfig 3 is not charming, the FTP is creating a lot of problems, now I fix it, but instead to direct to the web root, goes to the main root.

Falko you truly are a super star

Worked first time.

I was previously running ubuntu 8.04 LTS with the final version of ISPConfig 2 which was working great. I really wanted to upgrade to ISPConfig 3 and also the security of the server in general but i could not find a subatable HOWTO and following the HOWTO on the ISPConfig website just left me more confused that ever.

 I had always fancied using Debian as it was the base for Ubuntu it seemed logical for me to have a go.

Well I can report that everything for now is working perfectly.

Thank you once again Falko

Worked perfectly!

Thank you ver much!