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The Perfect Setup - SUSE 9.3

Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2005-07-20 15:08. :: SuSE

This is a "copy & paste" HowTo! The easiest way to follow this tutorial is to use a command line client/SSH client (like PuTTY for Windows) and simply copy and paste the commands (except where you have to provide own information like IP addresses, hostnames, passwords,...). This helps to avoid typos.

The Perfect Setup - SUSE 9.3

Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited: 07/20/2005

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a SUSE 9.3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). In addition to that I will show how to use Debian's package manager apt on an rpm-based system because it takes care of package dependencies automagically which can save a lot of trouble.

I will use the following software:

  • Web Server: Apache 2.0.x
  • Mail Server: Postfix (easier to configure than sendmail; has a shorter history of security holes than sendmail)
  • DNS Server: BIND9
  • FTP Server: proftpd (ISPConfig will not work with vsftpd on SUSE 9.2)
  • POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-IMAP.
  • Webalizer for web site statistics

In the end you should have a system that works reliably and is ready for 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!

Requirements

To install such a system you will need the following:

1 The Base System

Boot from your first SUSE 9.3-CD and select Installation from the boot screen:

Accept the license:

The SUSE installer (called YaST - Yet another Setup Tool) starts.

Select your language:

Skip the media check:

The installer analyzes your system and makes some automatic installation decicions which it lists on the following screen (Installation Settings). You can change each of its choices by navigating to the appropriate headline. First, I change the keyboard layout (I don't have an English (US) keyboard...):

I select my new keyboard layout and click on Accept:

Then I want to have a look at the partitioning. You can accept YaST's proposal or create your own partitions. In this case, I accept YaST's proposal. For my purposes one big /-partition and a swap partition are a good choice:

Next, I adjust the time zone:

Back on the Installation Settings screen, you can also choose the software you want to install if you know what you are doing. In this example, I will leave YaST's package choice unchanged. I will install the software I need to run a web/email/ftp server manually after the base installation has finished. So we click on Accept as we're done here:

Accept the flash-player license next:

Click on Install:

The hard disk is being formatted:

The package installation starts:

After the basic package installation the system reboots. Remove the SuSE CD and go sure to boot from the hard disk:


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Help to solve problems relay issues on SUSE 9.3 perfect
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2006-08-25 12:01.
Great tutorial. I had relaying problems One was the smtp users was not authorized to send mail relay The /etc/pam.d/smtp was missing copying the /etc/pam.d/pop3 and renaming it to smtp worked with the cp ./pop3 ./smtp command worked. The other problem was that user outside of local network could not send mail. The mail server is behind a CISCO PIX 515 firewall. Cisco by default, in its configuration, it has a fixup for the SMTP protocol on port 25. Disabling fixup on port 25 solved the problem.
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YaST installer, or y2pmsh are beter for SuSE than apt
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2006-02-01 09:41.
Apt is a great tool, but on rpm based systems (apt4rpm) it's too slow, the fastest and most powerfull tool I've know for this systems is y2pmsh that may only be found on SuSE, besides, YaST installer is easier for newbies and is as powerfull as apt, unless it's slower. I personally prefer y2pmsh over apt cause of apt is too automatized for my likes, tgz too complicate, and haven't use emerge (for Gentoo) y2pmsh gives you more control even than apt on Debian.
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Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9.3
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Mon, 2005-12-05 09:29.

Has anyone tried to use ispconfig and this guide on SLES 9.

The os installs libreadline 4 and apt wants lib readline 5 , and I am unable to get SLES to update to libreadline 5 and work , seems like the whole os wants to use libreadline 4.

Any advice ?

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SLES 9 has different db and shell
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2006-02-22 19:27.
I found that this script does not work for SLES9. SLES9 has a differen dbrm and bash shell version which is not compatible with a few functions the apt and others are trying to do. Best stick to the Professional edition for these instructions!
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Optimize apache2 on suse 9.3.
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Sat, 2005-11-12 19:50.
I've used this guide in various permutations to do server installs for both testing, production and hosting and it's a live saver.

Just one question: Does anybody have a link to a guide that will help in optimizing the server for high traffic web sites. I have one that servers just under .5 million pages per month and I find the server a tad sluggish. It's a p4 3Gh, 2GB memory Intel server.

I've googled and have not found anything that really helps with this.

Thanks

Brenton
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problems with gcc
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Fri, 2005-11-11 19:28.

For some reason when I try to apt-get install gcc I get what I belive is a dependancy error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gcc: Depends: cpp (= 3.3.5-5) but 3.3.5-5.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I tried doing an apt-get install cpp also to update that (not sure what it is though) and it tells me cpp is the newest version.

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: problem with gcc
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Thu, 2005-12-29 16:58.

Hi,

Don't know why it goes wrong. Just got an solution.

Install gcc via yast (yast2) en re run the apt-get install line. Then you wil see the error is gone,.


Greetings, Martijn Swanink

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After installing php5 and restarting apache
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2005-10-25 11:49.

I get this error:

Check the APACHE_MODULES setting in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.


Starting httpd2 (prefork) Creating new config (0x80eca50) for (null)
Syntax error on line 11 of /etc/apache2/mod_log_config.conf:
Invalid command 'LogFormat', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

The command line was:
/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL
failed

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config PHP error during ISPConfig setup
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Sat, 2005-09-24 06:13.

=====================================================

configure: error: Try adding --with-zlib-dir=<DIR>. Please check config.log for more information.

ERROR: Could not configure PHP

=====================================================

Error message above, any assistance is appreciated. Btw, where does the config.log file reside?

jaf

jaf@mileswork.com

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Postfix users?
Submitted by Anonymous (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2005-09-21 14:40.
How to add or create new postfix e-mail users? IÂ am not use ISPConfig.
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