Creating Domain Parking Page in Virtualmin Rumi, October 4, 2008 Well, who ever set up virtualmin must be sick in seeing the default CentOS Apache page! I bet you do- since this it concerns to other hosted domains and virtual servers! Continue Reading
DNS Slave Auto-Configuration Quickstart Rumi, September 23, 2008 Virtualmin can automatically manage any number of DNS slave servers for you. Once configured, it will create slave zones on other servers and configure them to automatically update when changes are made on your Virtualmin server. For this to work, you need Virtualmin on your primary server and Webmin… Continue Reading
Set up the firewall to listen MySQL on port 3306 Rumi, September 6, 2008 Just a small tweaking comnand that allows MySQL server on a linux server to open & listen to port 3306 for remote connectivity- [root@linux root]# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 3306 -j ACCEPT Continue Reading
How to setup as DNS client / name server IP address Rumi, August 26, 2008August 26, 2008 Many new Linux user finds it difficult to setup / modify new name server address (NS1 / NS2). Local name resolution is done via /etc/hosts file. If you have small network then use /etc/hosts file. DNS (domain name service is accountable for associating domain names with ip address, for example… Continue Reading
Dovecot Setup using webmin Rumi, July 10, 2008July 10, 2008 Step 1 Networking and Protocols In “Server mail protocols”- select IMAP and POP3 You can also select IMAP (SSL) and POP3 (SSL) if you plan to server through SSL Step 2 Mail Files I decided not to store mail in the default location which is /var/mail In my earlier postfix… Continue Reading
Linux CHMOD Change user & group ownership Rumi, June 21, 2008January 7, 2011 Learn how to change the owner and group ownership of files and directories with the chown and chgrp commands. Caution: you need to do this whiled logged in as 'root' user. In order to set the ownership of a directory and all the files in that directory, you'll need the… Continue Reading
Postfix Setup Rumi, June 12, 2008June 12, 2008 In webmin >Severs > Postfix mail server > Edit config file, change this small line- inet_interfaces = all #inet_interfaces = $myhostname #inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost #inet_interfaces = localhost The significance is- if you don’t uncomment inet_interfaces =all, your server is completely isolated from the network. It won’t listen other than… Continue Reading
A small tweek in MySQL Data path in Linux using webmin Rumi, June 12, 2008 By default all database and data are stored in /var/lib/mysql But whenever, you’re planning to setup a virtual hosted server, it is wise to set up and configure this db to be set up in some different bigger disk space. Like I use to place this data path to /home/mysql… Continue Reading
Setting up PHPMyAdmin to Usermin Module Rumi, June 12, 2008 Webmin and Usermin are simply great- but it lacks the most widely used PhpMyadmin support! However, after googling for a while I got a solution for this. First need to download and setup the usermin module- here’s the URL for wbm package- http://awstats.sourceforge.net/files/phpmyadmin-1.0.wbm How to install PHPMyAdmin Module ? Go… Continue Reading
User Disk Quota in Linux using Webmin- essentials for Hosting Web Hosting Platform Rumi, May 23, 2008 Quotas on Linux are tricky, not because they are difficult to setup, but because they are so poorly documented, and what documentation exists is more often than not incorrect to the point of not working. If you are using a relatively recent Linux version, the following instructions should work without… Continue Reading