Comments on The Perfect Server - Debian Wheezy (Apache2, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

Stuck on point 15 on page 4.

The fstab file on my OVH vServer looks like this:

proc  /proc       proc    defaults    0    0

none  /dev/pts    devpts  rw          0    0

none  /dev/shm    tmpfs   rw          0    0

Where should I add the additional text? 

Hi, Im new in Linux, trying to set it up in EC2 from Amazon.  I tried it following the Centos tutorial, but after reboots it suddenly worked, so now trying with Debian. 

My first question here is... the instance will have a local private IP and a public ip assigned by the Elastic IP manager. Whichone do I have to set in the Network Configuration to make it accessible though the web?

thanks.

I installed ISPConfig on Debian 7.8. I can't send mails (mailclient or squirrelmail). Receiving is not a problem. the postfix config was set to inet_interfaces = all 

by default. The mail client doesn't connect. Can anybody help me?

Just ran updates and my server stopped sending/receiving as well. My configuration has been the same for many years, just ran an update and noticed no mail.

I tried to logon to my horde webmail and page is now blank with empty header or nav bar.

mail.log

debian dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (disconnected before greeting, waited 0 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<2YMYH64PpwB/AAAB>Feb 22 06:30:04 debian postfix/smtpd[29191]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]Feb 22 06:30:04 debian postfix/smtpd[29191]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]Feb 22 06:30:04 debian postfix/smtpd[29191]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]Feb 22 06:30:04 debian dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 1 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<3zggH64PPwB/AAAB>

What would cause "Could not resolve" for apt-get during step 12? Since enabling Apache mods Could not resolve happens for every apt-get.

I'm reading this toturial today, and now we have Debian 7.8.0 I have 3 questions...1) will I get in trouble following this tutorial that was written with Debian 7.0.02) Page 2 - when you say... simply choose Standard system utilities and SSH server for now we'll install the rest later will I get myself in trouble if I check "Debian desktop environment"3) page 3 #10General type of mail configuration: do you mean put in litteraly "Internet Site" or put "example.com"

1) The tutorial is fully compatible with all Debian 7.x versions.

2) You can do that, but it will slow down your server. Therefor you normally wont install a Desktop on a Linux server.

3) This is an option that you select, you will see that when you follow the tutorial.

to have xxxx.com/phpmyadmin you also need to:

ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf service apache2 reload

nice tuto

after 1000x trying to install this pannel it finally worked

however 2 errors

1 is the jail.local file when i add that fail 2 ban wont start

2 is again that terrible warning [Fri Mar 27 20:29:57 2015] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:443 has no VirtualHosts

i can not figure out why i get this error

i did everything like described here and missed nothing everything went 110% until i got to the very last detail to secure the pannel

i am searching my ass of on the web for 5 days now and i just canot figure out what this problem is

i hope some one can answer this last question and the jail.local error

Regarding 1) Tro to use copy/paste. There ust be an error / typo in your file as the jail.local file from the tutorial above works fine. Just used it last week.

Regarding 2) This is no error, so no need to change anything. This message just means "Apache is is configured for SSL vhosts but you did not add one yet". So this is just a info message thats hows the correct installation of your server.

base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-installer

Hello.

i have already installed Dedian Wheezy as local server now i want to make live server. please guide me needful.

thanks.

Email to Gmail marked as spam. Attachement problem squirrelmailHello HowtoForge. This tutorial is great, I installed Debian 7.8.0 and everything is working, except for a few things.1) After sending an email to my gmail account it was marked as spam. Looking at the headers of the received email I noticed ip6 checks by the google mailservers, but my server uses ip4 DNS zones and records only. My internet connection and router are configured for ipv4 and ipv6 by my ISP. Solution: After some search I changed this in the postfix main.cf file: inet_protocols=all to inet_protocols = ipv4

restart postfix: /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Done.2) Squirrelmail attachment error: Unable to move/copy file... This took me a few hours, but this is what I did to make it work:2.1) Open /etc/squirrelmail/config.php and change the value of $attachement_dir = /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach/ into /var/lib/squirrelmail/tmp/2.2) Open /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and change the value ;file_uploads = On into file_uploads = On . Further, I changed the default setting of max_filesize = 2M into max_filesize = 10M . And I changed the setting max_file_uploads = 20 into max_file_uploads = 4 .2.3) In the same php.ini file, edit the value of this line and set it to 12 (for example): post_max_size = 12M (otherwise the setting max_filesize = 10M doesn't work.2.5) Open /etc/php5_fpm/php.ini and do the same as you did in step 2.2 and 2.3Restart apache: /etc/init.d/apache2 restartDone. Hopefully this works for you too.

Thank you! It was a pleasure to work following your tutorial.

ISPConfig works great and I've bookmark your page on first place in my list of favorite how-tos.

What happened with system if my ISP didnt add that OpenVZ config in my container? 

The perfect serevr guides do not contain support for OpenVZ containers as the openvz kernel conflicts with Linux harddisk quota. you can either host websites on a server or OpenVZ containers but not both. If you want to have a OpenVZ hosting server, please see OpenVZ installation tutorial on ispconfig.org and dont use the perfect server guide, which is for website, email and DNS hosting.

Awesome Tutorial! Works like a charm, thank's a lot for your work!

What is the path to phpmyadmin?

The path is /phpmysdmin. So you can e,g, access it with http://yourhostname/phpmyadmin or http://yourip/phpmyadmin.

I have these warnings in many steps.. What is it, and how to fix it? No answers in google..

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insserv: warning: script 'K01gateway-script.sh' missing LSB tags and overridesinsserv: warning: script 'gateway-script.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides

Thanks for this great & working tutorials :)

At step 1, receiving:Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... DonePackage libapache2-mod-ruby is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another sourcePackage libapache2-mod-suphp is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another sourceE: Package 'libapache2-mod-suphp' has no installation candidateE: Package 'libapache2-mod-ruby' has no installation candidateE: Unable to locate package php5-mingE: Unable to locate package php5-ps

Either you dont use Debian 7 (are you using debian 8, then use the debian 8 tutorial) or the /etc/apt/sources.list fle of your server is not configured as described in this tutorial.

Thanks for the post...

Hi!

I use this Perfect Server in production for several year, and it works great !

But, as I'm not "Linux fluent", and because this my production server, I'm freaking to break what is working fine (even if the VM running this "perfect server" is often backuped), and I want to avoid visitors to get an "available" response for a long time. So, I prefer to ask help (and I like learning from specialists)...

I've installed Piwik to allow tracking for all websites handled by this server (so Piwik is not delcared in an ISPConfig Client). I installed it in root, in /var/www/piwik/ folder. All is working fine for now.

But Piwik notices me : "Piwik will stop supporting PHP 5.4 in the next major version. Upgrade your PHP to at least PHP 5.5, before it's too late! The PHP version 5.4 you are using has reached its End of Life (EOL). You are strongly urged to upgrade to a current version, as using this version may expose you to security vulnerabilities and bugs that have been fixed in more recent versions of PHP."

As this is not a website declared for a "ISP Config" client, I can't use the "multi-PHP version" feature of ISPConfig...

So, I wonder how to upgrade the default PHP version for all this server (all my websites/webapps are compatible with PHP 5.5). And, of course, a unrisky way if possible to reduce unavailable time...

Is there anyone to help me?

Many thanks!