Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ISP Server Setup with DTC

Install of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server with the DTC control panel to provide a secure virtual hosting platform for Email, Webmail Anti-spam and Anti-virus with usage statistics.

This system uses the LAMP install of Ubuntu and Domain Technologies control panel.

Remote access with ssh
Firewall security with Shorelines Shorewall
DNS Sever: Bind9
FTP server: Pureftp
Mail: Postfix, Courier POP(s), IMAP(s)
Web mail with Squirrelmail
Mailing lists management with mlmmj
Anti virus and Spam controls with Spam Assassin, Clam AV,SPF, Amavis
Web statistics with Webalizer and awstats
Security certificates from CaCerts

The control panel also features a package installer for 'one click' application deployment.
For the future, the control panel supports virtualisation with xen.

I can be contacted by email at kdavies at syntosdotltddotuk or from my website www.syntos.ltd.uk.

Enjoy

Kevin

Install the Ubuntu LAMP server.

Reconfigure eth0 for a static ip address.

In this example I used 192.168.1.15 as the server ip.

Now for some configuration changes as root.

sudo -i
vi /etc/network/interfaces
#This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
#and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). 
#The loopback network interface
auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

#The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static 
	address 192.168.1.15
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1

Turn off IPv6

echo "alias net-pf-10 off" > /etc/modprobe.d/bad_list

reload the network settings

/etc/init.d/networking restart

edit the /etc/hosts file to reflect the new ip.

vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.15 myhostname.home.net myhostname
#The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

A reboot may be desirable at this stage.

Update your system

Check /etc/apt/sources.list to ensure repositories are enabled and remove cdrom from sources.list

vi /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Remote access with ssh

apt-get install ssh

use ssh to connect to your server.

ssh [email protected]

To log into the admin account on the server without having to enter a password each time, populate the authorized_keys file on the server

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [email protected]

You can now logon to the server.

ssh [email protected]

Start a root session

sudo -i

Remove some unwanted software

apt-get remove pppoeconf ppp pppconfig

Now to get some software

apt-get install screen defoma fontconfig gawk fileutils unrar-free zip unzip libzzip-0-12 mhonarc fakeroot chrootuid patch ucf openntpd ncftp
apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-cgi php5-curl php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php-pear php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-xml-parser

When asked about libclient answer no. we want to use maildirs.

apt-get install bind9 bindgraph
apt-get install rrdtool rrdcollect mrtg-rrd librrd2 mrtg libgd-tools mrtg-contrib


Answer no to MRTG user only.
edit mrtg.cfg to reflect your web work directory

vi /etc/mrtg.cfg
apt-get install libmysqlclient12 libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libltdl3 liburi-perl libnet-ip-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-cidr-lite-perl libmail-spf-query-perl
apt-get install libsocket6-perl

needed for mysql authentication

apt-get install libpam-mysql libnss-mysql
apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql courier-base courier-pop courier-imap courier-authdaemon courier-maildrop courier-authmysql courier-ssl courier-imap-ssl courier-pop-ssl sasl2-bin libsasl2 libsasl2-module
rm /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/
ln -s /var/run/saslauthd /var/spool/postfix/var/run

Answer yes for web based configuration files.
Chose Internet site

apt-get install spamassassin spamc
apt-get install clamav-base clamav-daemon php5-clamavlib clamav clamav-freshclam
apt-get install phpmyadmin webalizer awstats squirrelmail sqwebmail amavisd-new amavisd-new-milter

Had some problems with ftp-server, this worked.

aptitude -t ftp-server install pure-ftpd pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd-mysql
pear install Crypt_CBC Auth_SASL

Some setting up

ln -s /usr/share/php/PEAR /usr/share/pear
ln -s /var/log /etc/apache2/logs
touch /etc/apache2/logs/mod_log_sql-preserve
chown nobody:nogroup /etc/apache2/logs/mod_log_sql-preserve

Set up root user password for MySQL

mysqladmin password mysqlrootpassword

PHP settings

Edit php.ini files.

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
max_execution_time = 300
memory_limit = 32M
upload_max_filesize = 6M
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so

then copy to the cgi and cli directories

cp /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini /etc/php5/cgi
cp /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini /etc/php5/cli

Apache configuration

copy the cgi-bin alias from default site to apache2.conf

vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
	AllowOverride None
	Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>

Restart Apache webserver

apache2ctl restart

Add the dtc repository to /etc/apt/sources.list

echo deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian stable main /etc/apt/sources.list

Update apt

apt-get update
apt-get install mlmmj sbox-dtc libapache2-mod-log-sql-mysql libapache2-mod-log-sql libapache2-mod-log-sql-ssl

Install DTC control panel

For the standard release:

apt-get dtc

For the latest version from cvs:

apt-get install cvs
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/var/lib/cvs login

Password is anoncvs

cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/var/lib/cvs checkout dtc
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/var/lib/cvs logout

Now to make DTC package

cd dtc/bin
./makeDebian

Next install the control panel

dpkg -i dtc_0.21.0-0_all.deb

To remove dtc

dpkg -r dtc

To reconfigure dtc

dpkg-reconfigure dtc

Install some traffic loggers

apt-get install mysqmail-postfix-logger mysqmail-courier-logger mysqmail-pure-ftpd-logger

Firewall configuration with Shorewall

apt-get install shorewall

To get phpmyadmin to work I had to edit /etc/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php and add it to /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Using the control panel

Browse to http://yourdtcdomain.com/dtcadmin

Log in

Select DTC general configuration
Set Use SSL to yes

Using DTC

Set up mail

Select Users Administration ==>dtcdomain ==>Mailboxes

In the login box enter postmaster

Enter a password

for the postmaster username

In the Catch-all dropdown box select postmaster

Select ok

Continue to add emails.

To change account settings select
Admin editor or
Domain config

Adding a database

Select Client interface ==> database

First create a database username with a password

Select create

Create your database with username ==> create

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