Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0)

Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0)Version 1.0Author: Till Brehm , Falko Timme This tutorial describes the installation of an OpenVZ host server to manage virtual machines from within the ISPConfig 3 hosting control panel. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualization technology for Linux servers, similar to jails on *BSD systems. See http://www.openvz.org for details. ISPConfig 3 contains a module to manage OpenVZ virtual machines on the local server and on remote servers that r

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Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3

Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3Version 1.0Author: Till Brehm This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders. 1 Setting Up The Two Base SystemsIn this

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The Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND, Dovecot & Nginx [ISPConfig 3]

The Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND, Dovecot & Nginx [ISPConfig 3]

The Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND, Dovecot & Nginx [ISPConfig 3]Edited and compiled by Daniel HarbottleThis tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx or Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.This tutorial is based on the excellent tutorials “The Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian

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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDN

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Install Horde 4 Webmail For ISPConfig On Debian Squeeze Through PEAR

Install Horde 4 Webmail For ISPConfig On Debian Squeeze Through PEARAuthor: Stephan JauRevision: v1.0Last Change: April 01, 2012IntroductionHorde is a groupware suite that offers email, calendar, task, contact management and more things. It also offers SyncML and ActiveSync to synchronize with your cell phones or other software. You can find out more about Horde on their webpage: http://www.horde.org/This Howto assumes that you followed the ISPConfig 3 installation for Debian Squeeze and all the packages there. 1. Install necessary packagesapt-get install php5-sasl php5-intl libssh2-php php5-c

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Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3Version 1.0Author: Michel Käser This tutorial describes how you can set up a single dedicated server as a virtual multiserver environment using OpenVZ with dedicated Web & MySQL, Email and DNS servers on Debian Squeeze. Also, you will learn how to maintain all these servers. As an addition, you will learn how to install some very useful packages on all of them, how to protect them and how to monitor them.
At the end you will have a fully functional virt

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Userdir Access On ISPConfig 3 Server

Userdir Access On ISPConfig 3 ServerThis tutorial describes how you can enable userdir based access on your ISPConfig3 server running apache2.At the end, your clients will be able to access their site via http://yourdomain.tld/~clientdomain.tldI do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 RequirementsTo follow this tutorial you will need the following:a working ISPConfig3 server 2 Preparing Apache2Before we can install the ISPConfig3 plugin, we have to prepare the apache2 webserver. It’s very easy.First of all, you have to enabled the mod_userdir module by typing:a2enmod userdirS

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Using Fail2ban To Block Wrong ISPConfig Logins

Using Fail2ban To Block Wrong ISPConfig LoginsFirst of all: if you’re not paranoid, you don’t need this. ISPConfig does a fine job to block any user logins that fail more than five times a minute.On the other hand, you MIGHT want to be able to fine-tune this a bit.In this tutorial, we’ll write an ISPConfig plugin to log failed logins to syslog, filter those entries using rsyslogd and add a fail2ban rule to block malicious users’ IPs.Again: we would not need this part, either. If you set ISPConfig’s Loglevel to DEBUG, failed logins would be logged anyways. But we don’t want all that other clutt

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Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS & MySQL Database Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS & MySQL Database Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3Version 1.0Author: Till Brehm This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g. if you want to have two mailservers, do the setup steps from chapter 2 on both of these server

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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.10 (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.10 (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.10 (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and D

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