14 Proftpd

Install Proftpd like this:

urpmi proftpd

For security reasons you can add the following lines to /etc/proftpd.conf (thanks to Reinaldo Carvalho; more information can be found here: http://www.proftpd.org/localsite/Userguide/linked/userguide.html):

vi /etc/proftpd.conf

[...]
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready."
[...]

Be sure to comment out the following lines in /etc/proftpd.conf in order to allow ftp users to CHMOD:

[...]
# Bar use of SITE CHMOD by default
#<Limit SITE_CHMOD>
#    DenyAll
#</Limit>

Then restart Proftpd:

/etc/init.d/proftpd restart

15 Webalizer

Mandriva 2007 Spring doesn't come with a Webalizer package anymore, therefore we install the static Webalizer binary from the Webalizer web site like this:

urpmi libgeoip1 geoip libgeoipupdate0 awffull

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/webalizer-2.01-10-static.gz
gunzip webalizer-2.01-10-static.gz
mv webalizer-2.01-10-static /usr/bin/webalizer
chmod 755 /usr/bin/webalizer

16 Install Some Perl Modules Needed By SpamAssassin (Comes With ISPConfig)

To install all needed Perl Modules, we can use the appropriate Mandriva packages and install them using urpmi:

urpmi perl-HTML-Parser perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-DB_File perl-Net-DNS

17 The End

The configuration of the server is now finished, and if you wish you can now install ISPConfig on it.

18 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 Mandriva's suExec is compiled with /var/www as Doc_Root. Run

/usr/sbin/suexec -V

and the output should look like this:

[root@server1 /]# /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_SUEXEC_UMASK=077
 -D AP_UID_MIN=100
 -D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html"
[root@server1 /]#

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).

19 Links

• Mandriva: http://www.mandrivalinux.com
• Easyurpmi: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org
• ISPConfig: http://www.ispconfig.org