The Perfect Server - Fedora 7 - Page 6
13 ProFTPd
ISPConfig has better support for proftpd than vsftpd, so let's remove vsftpd and install proftpd:
yum remove vsftpd
yum install proftpd
Next we must modify /etc/pam.d/proftpd (of course we make a backup of the original /etc/pam.d/proftpd) because otherwise system users will not be able to log in to FTP:
cp /etc/pam.d/proftpd /etc/pam.d/proftpd_orig
cat /dev/null > /etc/pam.d/proftpd
vi /etc/pam.d/proftpd
#%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so session required pam_unix.so |
Now we can create the system startup links for Proftpd and start it:
chkconfig --levels 235 proftpd on
/etc/init.d/proftpd start
14 Webalizer
To install webalizer, just run
yum install webalizer
15 Synchronize The System Clock
If you want to have the system clock synchronized with an NTP server do the following:
yum install ntp
chkconfig --levels 235 ntpd on
ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
16 Install Some Perl Modules
ISPConfig comes with SpamAssassin which needs a few Perl modules to work. We install the required Perl modules with a single command:
yum install perl-HTML-Parser perl-DBI perl-Net-DNS perl-Digest-SHA1
17 The End
The configuration of the server is now finished, and if you wish you can now install ISPConfig on it, following these instructions: http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm
17.1 A Note On SuExec
If you want to run CGI scripts under suExec, you should specify /var/www as the web root for websites created by ISPConfig as Fedora's suExec is compiled with /var/www as Doc_Root. Run
/usr/sbin/suexec -V
and the output should look like this:
[root@server1 ssl]# /usr/sbin/suexec -V
-D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www"
-D AP_GID_MIN=100
-D AP_HTTPD_USER="apache"
-D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/httpd/suexec.log"
-D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
-D AP_UID_MIN=500
-D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html"
[root@server1 ssl]#
So if you want to use suExec with ISPconfig, don't change the default web root (which is /var/www) if you use expert mode during the ISPConfig installation (in standard mode you can't change the web root anyway so you'll be able to use suExec in any case).
18 Links
- Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org
- ISPConfig: http://www.ispconfig.org
