[olug] Server

Sam Flint harmonicnm7h at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 17:30:13 UTC 2012 

userdrs are themselves a module, and can be enabled as such, and what
permissions need to be set

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
> 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>
>
> ---
>
>
>> 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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