Comments on The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 16.04 (Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, BIND, Dovecot, Pure-FTPD and ISPConfig 3.1)

This tutorial shows the steps to install an Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server with Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Postfix, pure-ftpd, BIND, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3.1. ISPConfig is a web hosting control panel that allows you to configure the installed services through a web browser. This setup provides a full hosting server with web, email (inc. spam and antivirus filter), Database, FTP and DNS services.

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By: Ionut Daniel

A perfect tutorial

Everything works great but in my system nginx failed to start on reboot so, i have to add this line net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1 into this file /etc/sysctl.conf and now nginx start on system restart.

Just in case someone have same problem.

 

By: Nexusguy59

Hello Guys,

       I have a question, How would I go about making sure I get alerts via my gmail account. Is there a way to setup the email server part to use gmail to send alerts?

 

Thanks,

Michael Cooper 

By: till

Set the admin email address to your gmail address under system > interface config.

By: Freddie

what code have to be enter here in the nginx Directives for wordpress site:

l amcurrenly have this code 

 

location /phpmyadmin {

               root /usr/share/;

               index index.php index.html index.htm;

               location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {

                       try_files $uri =404;

                       root /usr/share/;

                       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

                       fastcgi_param HTTPS on; # <-- add this line

                       fastcgi_index index.php;

                       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;

                       include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

                       fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;

                       fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;

                       fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;

                       fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;

                       fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;

                       fastcgi_intercept_errors on;

               }

               location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {

                       root /usr/share/;

               }

        }

        location /phpMyAdmin {

               rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;

 

        }

 

 

By: Gromy

8. Install Nginx, PHP5 (PHP-FPM), and Fcgiwrap

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By: luis jhoham venegas tobar

Good afternoon, I have done the tutorial but it does not work the ftp always says "The server sent a passive response with a non-routable address. Using the server address instead.", Can help me to solve this thanks

By: JHB

I've followed the tutorial on a fresh ubuntu 16.04 server vm. No errors during build. But the ISP config login screen won't show up on my browser. I keep getting 'This site can't be reached' followed by a line stating that my webserver refused to connect.

doing netstat shows the server is not listening on 8080 or 8081, which are defined sites on nginx by ISPConfig. I can hit the default nginx page just fine so the webserver IS running.

Don't even know where to start troubleshooting as the nginx logs are not showing anything when I tail it as I try to hit the ISPConfig page.

Completely lost at this point on what the hell is going on.

By: till

Please post in the forum to get help with yur issue.

By: Julius

Got a weird error installing pure-ftpd, not much useful to find about it online. Anyone?:

# apt-get install pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd-mysqlReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... Done0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.Need to get 0 B/259 kB of archives.After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.Preconfiguring packages ...Can't exec "/tmp/pure-ftpd-common.config.PxMjbV": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.22/IPC/Open3.pm line 178.open2: exec of /tmp/pure-ftpd-common.config.PxMjbV configure 1.0.36-3.2build1 failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 59.(Reading database ... 135732 files and directories currently installed.)Preparing to unpack .../pure-ftpd-common_1.0.36-3.2build1_all.deb ...Unpacking pure-ftpd-common (1.0.36-3.2build1) over (1.0.36-3.2build1) ...Preparing to unpack .../pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.36-3.2build1_amd64.deb ...Unpacking pure-ftpd-mysql (1.0.36-3.2build1) over (1.0.36-3.2build1) ...Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu16) ...Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...Setting up pure-ftpd-common (1.0.36-3.2build1) ...Setting up pure-ftpd-mysql (1.0.36-3.2build1) ...

By: Ben

After install completed, with no clients or sites yet, under System > Server Config > Web I'm trying to set the Website basedir to something more logical. Whatever I fill in, it keeps on failing;"1. Invalid website basedir."I'm using the latest ISPconfig 3.1dev from github master on Ubuntu 16.04 with nginx only (no apache, luckily). Please advice, assuming I can't live with the deep sub sub apache structure of /var/www/clients/ etc.

By: till

ISPConfig requires that structure and it creates symlinks for easy shell navigation. I would call a navigation path /var/www/yourdomain.tld/ to access a domain short and logical and that's what ISPConfig is using when you keep the default settings.

By: Joerg

 I configured fail2ban as described and get this error message when I restart the service:

"Job for fail2ban.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status fail2ban.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details."

systemctl status fail2ban.service says this:

"

fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Fr 2017-04-14 20:20:06 CEST; 1min 37s ago

     Docs: man:fail2ban(1)

  Process: 4728 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start (code=exited, status=255)

 

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered failed state.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

Apr 14 20:20:06 server1.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service

"

Whats the problem and how can I solve it?

By: Raziel

Try to start the fail2ban daemon with:# fail2ban-client -x -v start

on the command-line and see the output.

By: Srinivasa varma

Hello,

I have followed the above article and  installed the ISPConfig successfully, but mail sending and receiving is not happening. Is ther any aditional configuration? please help me on this. 

Thanks.

By: till

There is no additional configuration required. Please make a post in the forum with an excerpt of your mail.log file to get help with your problem.

By: Dario

I love this tutorial, and I followed it to the letter minus a simple change -- since I'm on EC2, using RDS instance instead of localhost. Everything went well, however once ISPConfig is installed, I can't access it the way the tutorial says.  I have no clue where it is, there are no vhosts setup, trying to figure it out. Quite frustrating to have everything install, but... to no end.

By: till

Please make a post in the forum so we can help you to get your server fully working :)

By: Peter

Got an error on a fresh install:

Job for amavis.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status amavis.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

So I run the command suggested and get the following information:

systemctl status amavis.service

? amavis.service - LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/amavis; bad; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-08-15 19:34:17 AEST; 28s ago

     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

  Process: 5525 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/amavis start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

 

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]:   The value of variable $myhostname is "", but should have been

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]:   a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such.

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]:   You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]:   in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host's

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]:   network name!

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com amavis[5525]: (failed).

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com systemd[1]: amavis.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter.

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.mukoconsulting.com systemd[1]: amavis.service: Unit entered failed state.

Aug 15 19:34:17 web.com systemd[1]: amavis.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any ideas? I tried setting a host name in the file as suggested and it did not work.

 

By: till

That's a common problem when your hostname is not configured correctly. Check the hostname in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, /etc/mailname. Then restart the server. The command:

hostname

should return e.g. 'server1' and the command:

hostname -f

must return the full hostname e.g. 'server1.example.com'. You can set the hostname in the amavisd.config manually as well, but ensure that you use the full hostname there like 'server1.example.com'. But it is better to correct the system hostname serup in general as described above.

By: Peter

You were spot on. Fixed the hostname issue and worked great.

By: PD

Great tutorial. However phpmyadmin throws this warning:

 The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).

Any ideas on how to fix it.

 

By: Peter

Where you says this:

"If you use https instead of http for your vhost, you should add the line fastcgi_param HTTPS on; to your phpMyAdmin configuration like this:"

Where exactly is the config file that you need to add this line to?

Is it: /etc/nginx/sites-available/apps.vhost

Cheers

By: Vitor

It works really fine! Thanks! Could you give me some tips on how to get a secure HTTPS ISPConfig interface? I get the "not secure" message. Tried to find a solution, but I couldn't. The Vhosts works fine with https, only ISPConfig show the error message. Thanks

By: till

SSL is on by default for the ISPConfig interface. But I guess what you mean is that a self-signed SSL cert is used. To get an officially signed cert, see Here: https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/securing-ispconfig-3-control-panel-port-8080-with-lets-encrypt-free-ssl.75554/

By: Vitor

I've got an error while installing the ISPConfig:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function queryAllRecords() on null in /tmp/ispconfig3-stable-3.1-b1337668df50d3672b348708a4a3949b2fca1f60/install/lib/installer_base.lib.php:238

It was fixed like this:

- on file: install/lib/installer_base.lib.php, change the line 238 from:

 $sql_plugins = $inst->db->queryAllRecords( ....

to 

 $sql_plugins = $this->db->queryAllRecords( ....

 

By: Stan

Greate tutorial, thank you very much!

By: Ari

I failed to load the phpmyadmin.

By: till

Ensure that you use the correct URL to access PHPMyAdmin. PHPMyAdmin on Nginx is on port 8081: http://yourdomain,tld;8081/phpmyadmin

By: Ari

It is always asking to select the language when installing mailman.

By: till

Select a language, e.g. 'en' as described in the tutorial. An option is selected in an apt installer by navigating to the correct item with tab key or arrow keys and then selected by pressing the space bar on your keyboard.

By: Renan Altendorf

The key of the HHVM repository is in trouble, but as the official website says it is no longer necessary: "For this setup, although various flavors of Debian and Ubuntu are supported with official packages, the most recent Ubuntu LTS and the most recent Ubuntu stable release are likely to be the best supported and easiest to install."

By: george

Install Jailkit fails with linux mint

dh_testdir

dh_testroot

dh_clean -k -s 

dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 5 are no longer supported (level 4 requested)

dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 5 are no longer supported (level 4 requested)

debian/rules:74: recipe for target 'install-arch' failed

make: *** [install-arch] Error 25

By: till

See jailkit instructions from a newer Ubuntu perfect server guide that matches your Linux mint version for details on how to change the compatibility level.

By: george

update

 

got it to install like this :

How do I install Jailkit?

 

Download the latest version Unpack the sources chdir to the top-level sources dir Run './configure' Run 'make' Switch to root; run 'make install'

By: george

Great article!

I installed php7.2 instead of 7.0 and everything installed correctly, but ini ISPconfig I get 502 Bad Gateway. Any suggestions on where to change the main settings of ISP config to work with 7.2 (no multi-PHP install)?

By: till

That's to be expected as PHP 7.2 is not supported. Never change the default PHP of the operating system. You can install PHP 7.2 as additional PHP version for the websites though.

By: helios842000

hi, I need php memcached, if it is installed how to activate it, otherwise how to install it? thank you

By: helios842000

found

By: Fred

After following that tutorial, I have a problem in cron job.

[ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php/sessionclean sending to root an email telling:

PHP: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_FALSE in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini on line 991

By: till

The error message explains already what's wrong. You have a typo in the file /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini on line 991.

By: Fred

What could be the FALSE bool variable, there is none line 991????

PHP: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_FALSE in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini on line 991

By: till

You might have a typo in the line before 991 then.

By: Fred

PHP: syntax error, unexpected BOOL_FALSE in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini on line 991

And line 991 is the first comment line after [Pdo]????

[Pdo]; Whether to pool ODBC connections. Can be one of "strict", "relaxed" or "off"; http://php.net/pdo-odbc.connection-pooling;pdo_odbc.connection_pooling=strict

This error is received every 30 mn by email send by that script:

  [ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php/sessionclean

Do you have an idea how to stop that?

By: Gilbert

Hi, nice tutorial :)

I have a question or a problem.

 

If I go to Roundcube I only get this error msg.

 

CONFIGURATION ERROR config.inc.php was not found.Please read the INSTALL instructions!

 

In the folder is with the simlink:

ln -s /usr/share/roundcube /usr/share/squirrelmail

is only the temo file config.inc.php.sample

.What do I wrong?

 

Best requads Gilbert

By: Michael Cooper

Where can i get the ovf/ova file from I don't see a link for it.

By: till

In the menu on the right side of the page, right below the big red download icon.

By: Piotr

Hello Guys,

Does adding MS SQL server according to MS guide (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-install-connect-ubuntu?view=sql-server-linux-ver15) have a chance to work together?Thanks,Piotr Sulkowski