[olug] Server

Lou Duchez lou at paprikash.com
Sun Sep 2 15:39:38 UTC 2012 

If it helps, I can show you a sample VirtualHost section of mine.  Details:

/var/www/mydomain.com - the main virtualhost directory
/var/www/mydomain.com/html - where viewable pages are kept; you can 
browse there via http://www.mydomain.com/
/var/www/mydomain.com/logs - where logs are kept
/var/www/mydomain.com/squirrelmail-1.4.21 - where I installed 
squirrelmail; thanks to an "alias" it can be viewed as 
http://www.mydomain.com/webmail

And here's what's in my httpd.conf:

---

# you need the following line just once in httpd.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80


# you need one virtualhost section per virtual host

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName mydomain.com
     ServerAlias mydomain.com www.mydomain.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/www.mydomain.com/html
     ErrorLog /var/www/www.mydomain.com/logs/error_log
     CustomLog /var/www/www.mydomain.com/logs/access_log common
     <Directory /var/www/www.mydomain.com/html>
         Options FollowSymLinks +Indexes
         AllowOverride All
     </Directory>


     # this allows you to map an outside directory to 
http://www.mydomain.com/;
     # I'm guessing this will help with the userdirs

     Alias /webmail /var/www/www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail-1.4.21
     <Directory /var/www/www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail-1.4.21>
       Options Indexes
       AllowOverride none
       DirectoryIndex index.php
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
     </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

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> Well, back to apache, I have virtual hosts set p, but i can't see my
> content, or my userdirs, I'm getting 404.
>
> Sam
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:
>> Postfix has a more "readable" config file than sendmail, the other default
>> in RHEL/CentOS. Read good things about exim, probably here on list where
>> others use it. I suspect, once you get used to a package, you'll stay there
>> for a LONG time until "pain to switch" forces an issue.
>>
>> I had some initial issues getting Dovecot to talk ldap when RHEL/CentOS
>> switched from courier when I did the upgrade.  Works fine now and has since
>> rough spots worked out. Doing pop, imap...
>>
>> Assume you're using passwd for user auth? Or are you going ldap? From past
>> experience, I'd say I'm more comfortable security-wise w/ ldap auth and
>> virtual users rather than a ton of entries in passwd, but I'm not sure I've
>> got reason to back up the feeling. YOUR use-case may also depend on the
>> number of users you are considering.
>>
>> FWIW.
>>
>>
>> On 9/1/2012 10:58 PM, Kevin wrote:
>>> I'm afraid that I don't have any specific advice there. Try it and see if
>>> it works, read the documentation, look through the config files and change
>>> any values that look like what you're looking for......the same process
>>> that you'd
>>> use if you were installing any software package.
>>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2012 10:35 PM, "Sam Flint"<harmonicnm7h at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> ok, so i heard mention of dovecot and postfix, what's your advice?
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Kevin<sharpestmarble at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Apologies; they're in the mod_perl and mod_ssl packages. The default
>>>>> repositories should have them. The files that control them are
>>>>> /etc/httpd/conf.d/{perl,ssl}.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Sam Flint<harmonicnm7h at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> no mention of modperl or ssl in the defalt config
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Sam Flint<harmonicnm7h at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> ok
>>>>>>>    thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sam
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Kevin<sharpestmarble at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> What distro are you using? I know for a fact that the default
>>>>>>>> RHEL/CentOS/etc install of most of those items includes them already
>>>>>>>> set up. I'm speaking about mod_ssl, mod_perl, php, virtual hosts,
>>>>>>>> userdirs, and bind. I don't know about SMTP or POP; I haven't done
>>>>>>>> those myself recently.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Sam Flint<harmonicnm7h at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> user websites, host/~user, and i was asking for advice on
>>> individual items
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Lou Duchez<lou at paprikash.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Those are basically individual projects, not really
>>> interconnected.  So you
>>>>>>>>>> can get one going and then move on to the next.  Pick a place to
>>> start and
>>>>>>>>>> let's go from there.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> For SSL, you can get free certificates from startssl.com most of
>>> the time.
>>>>>>>>>> For POP3 I recommend Dovecot; for SMTP I recommend postfix.  Your
>>> mileage
>>>>>>>>>> may vary.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You said there will be user dirs; for what purpose, and accessible
>>> by what
>>>>>>>>>> means?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Well, Unfortuanately, I need help setting apache up, I need
>>> Mod_SSL
>>>>>>>>>>> Mod_perl, and php, and i need three virtualhosts, including one
>>> with
>>>>>>>>>>> ssl support, along with that i need userdirs setup, along with
>>> BIND,
>>>>>>>>>>> an SMTP server, and a pop server, any suggestions on ways of going
>>>>>>>>>>> about it?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Sam
>>>>>>>>>>>
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