The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] - Page 7

24 Install ISPConfig 3

Download the current ISPConfig 3 version and install it. The ISPConfig installer will configure all services like Postfix, Courier, etc. for you. A manual setup as required for ISPConfig 2 is not necessary anymore.

You now also have the possibility to let the installer create an SSL vhost for the ISPConfig control panel, so that ISPConfig can be accessed using https:// instead of http://. To achieve this, just press ENTER when you see this question: Do you want a secure (SSL) connection to the ISPConfig web interface (y,n) [y]:.

To install ISPConfig 3 from the latest released version, do this:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
tar xfz ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
cd ispconfig3_install/install/

The next step is to run

php -q install.php

This will start the ISPConfig 3 installer:

[[email protected] install]# php -q install.php


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 _____ ___________   _____              __ _         ____
|_   _/  ___| ___ \ /  __ \            / _(_)       /__  \
  | | \ `--.| |_/ / | /  \/ ___  _ __ | |_ _  __ _    _/ /
  | |  `--. \  __/  | |    / _ \| '_ \|  _| |/ _` |  |_ |
 _| |_/\__/ / |     | \__/\ (_) | | | | | | | (_| | ___\ \
 \___/\____/\_|      \____/\___/|_| |_|_| |_|\__, | \____/
                                              __/ |
                                             |___/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


>> Initial configuration

Operating System: Redhat or compatible, unknown version.

    Following will be a few questions for primary configuration so be careful.
    Default values are in [brackets] and can be accepted with <ENTER>.
    Tap in "quit" (without the quotes) to stop the installer.


Select language (en,de) [en]:
 <-- ENTER

Installation mode (standard,expert) [standard]: <-- ENTER

Full qualified hostname (FQDN) of the server, eg server1.domain.tld  [server1.example.com]: <-- ENTER

MySQL server hostname [localhost]: <-- ENTER

MySQL root username [root]: <-- ENTER

MySQL root password []: <-- yourrootsqlpassword

MySQL database to create [dbispconfig]: <-- ENTER

MySQL charset [utf8]: <-- ENTER

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
................+++
..................................................................................................+++
writing new private key to 'smtpd.key'
-----
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]:
 <-- ENTER
State or Province Name (full name) []: <-- ENTER
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]: <-- ENTER
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]: <-- ENTER
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: <-- ENTER
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []: <-- ENTER
Email Address []: <-- ENTER
Configuring Jailkit
Configuring SASL
Configuring PAM
Configuring Courier
Configuring Spamassassin
Configuring Amavisd
Configuring Getmail
Configuring Pureftpd
Configuring BIND
Configuring Apache
Configuring Vlogger
Configuring Apps vhost
Configuring Bastille Firewall
Configuring Fail2ban
Installing ISPConfig
ISPConfig Port [8080]:
 <-- ENTER

Do you want a secure (SSL) connection to the ISPConfig web interface (y,n) [y]: <-- ENTER

Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus
.....................................++
.....................................................++
e is 65537 (0x10001)
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]:
 <-- ENTER
State or Province Name (full name) []: <-- ENTER
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]: <-- ENTER
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]: <-- ENTER
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: <-- ENTER
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []: <-- ENTER
Email Address []: <-- ENTER

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
 <-- ENTER
An optional company name []: <-- ENTER
writing RSA key
Configuring DBServer
Installing ISPConfig crontab
no crontab for root
no crontab for getmail
Restarting services ...
Stopping mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Shutting down postfix:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting postfix:                                          [  OK  ]
Stopping saslauthd:                                        [FAILED]
Starting saslauthd:                                        [  OK  ]
Shutting down amavisd: Daemon [1415] terminated by SIGTERM
                                                           [  OK  ]
amavisd stopped
Starting amavisd:                                          [  OK  ]

Stopping clamd.amavisd:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting clamd.amavisd:                                    [  OK  ]
Stopping Courier authentication services: authdaemond
Starting Courier authentication services: authdaemond
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py', 76, 27, 'DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = \n'))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 109, in <module>
    from Mailman import mm_cfg
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 76
    DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE =
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Shutting down mailman:                                     [FAILED]
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py', 76, 27, 'DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = \n'))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 109, in <module>
    from Mailman import mm_cfg
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 76
    DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE =
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Starting mailman:                                          [FAILED]
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[Sun Dec 18 23:47:41 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Installation completed.
[[email protected] install]#

To fix the Mailman errors you might get during the ISPConfig installation, open /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py...

vi /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

... and set DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en':

[...]
#-------------------------------------------------------------
# The default language for this server.
DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en'
[...]

Restart Mailman:

/etc/init.d/mailman restart 

Afterwards you can access ISPConfig 3 under http(s)://server1.example.com:8080/ or http(s)://192.168.0.100:8080/ (http or https depends on what you chose during installation). Log in with the username admin and the password admin (you should change the default password after your first login):

The system is now ready to be used.

 

 

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By: Brian

Great tutorial!
Even this linux nono did it with this great tutorial.

 

By: Anonymous

I agree I have never used any form of linux before and was a great set of instructions!
very well put together tutorial.
also learned a lot during the install.

Would be great if anyone knows of a tutorial or guide to fully secure and lock down the server after the install, remove vunralbilities etc...

Great work

By: daro

The best ever tutorial online. I start to prefer Linux Command Lines after this Great Tutorial; and I will never go to automatic applications such as Webmin and Virtualmin which produce lots of bugs causing me to be stuck with them for two weeks until I found this brilliant perfect VPS server. I am at the final stage of Squirrelmail configuration, and seems to be working fine at moment. Cheers

By: IPVS

I'm baffled.. I spent 3 hours installing IPSConfig3.  It went perfect.    It then installed ISPConfig , noted Installation Completed.   And within 5 seconds, the system went dead.   I couldn't ping it... Nothing.   I powered the system off, then powered it back on maintaining a ping to it... As soon as it was ping-able, I ssh'ed into it... and it went completely dead again within 5 seconds... ????

See the ouptut for the last part of the install...  I'm completely baffled on where to go from here???

 Thanks,

 

Tim

 

 

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
writing RSA key
Configuring DBServer
Installing ISPConfig crontab
no crontab for root
no crontab for getmail
Restarting services ...
Stopping mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Shutting down postfix:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting postfix:                                          [  OK  ]
Stopping saslauthd:                                        [FAILED]
Starting saslauthd:                                        [  OK  ]
Shutting down amavisd: Daemon [16405] terminated by SIGTERM
                                                           [  OK  ]
amavisd stopped
Starting amavisd:                                          [  OK  ]

Stopping clamd.amavisd:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting clamd.amavisd:                                    [  OK  ]
Stopping Courier authentication services: authdaemond
Starting Courier authentication services: authdaemond
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Starting Courier-IMAP server: imap imap-ssl pop3 pop3-ssl
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[Thu Dec 13 16:28:00 2012] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Installation completed.
16:28:[email protected]:/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install#Write failed: Broken pipe
16:30:[email protected]:~#
 

By: Anonymous

This is the best tutorial I've ever discovered! Thank you so much!    I had only 2 issues during the process:

 1.) service named start

This hung for several minutes so I spent about 2 hours trying to debug.  Bind requires using /dev/random to create a key the first time its run, which can take a very long time depending on your system.  Just let it run until its done, it will eventually finish.

 

2.) I installed mailman exactly as the tutorial says, and used wget http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz to install ISPConfig 3, however, mailman wasn't detected during the install php script.   Not a big deal for me for now I guess, but I'm not sure what happened.