Installing

Ubuntu
Step-by-Step Installation

This section provides a basic step-by-step installation of Ubuntu from the install disc. The install
process itself is fairly straightforward, and you should not encounter any real problems.

It is useful to have your computer ready to connect to the Internet so that you can download
updates as soon as you have finished the installation. Although typically you would be
recommended to not have your computer connected up, Ubuntu's unique security configuration
means that it effectively blocks all incoming network ports, so it is fairly secure until you start
opening these ports.

Starting the Install

To get started, insert the DVD into your drive and reboot your computer. You will first see a
boot screen that offers a variety of options for booting (see Figure 3.1).

Figure 3.1 Select an installation option in this first Ubuntu boot screen.

After the bootup, Ubuntu's GNOME-based desktop appears ready for you to start experimenting
(see Figure 3.2). At this point, you have a fully functional Ubuntu desktop in place with the
exception that nothing has been installed to your hard drive. Live CDs are somewhat unique to
Linux and are a great way to test out a disro's compatibility with your hardware. Take this
opportunity to have a play around with Ubuntu to see whether any problems exist.

Figure 3.2 You can check your CD-ROM or DVD media before installing Ubuntu.

More often than not, your hardware will be fine, and you can proceed to install Ubuntu. You do
this by double-clicking the Install icon helpfully located on your desktop (see Figure 3.3).
Figure 3.3 The standard Ubuntu desktop, complete with the helpful Install icon ready for you to
make the switch to Ubuntu.

After a couple of seconds, the Installation Welcome screen appears and prompts you to select a
language (see Figure 3.4). As you can see, Ubuntu supports a wide range of languages, even
native Welsh! Click forward when you have selected your language.

Figure 3.4 Select a language to use when installing Ubuntu.

The next screen asks you to specify your location in the world. This is used for setting time and
region options, so find the city closest to you on the map and select it. Figure 3.5 shows that we
have selected London, but it could be another city that is closer to you. Ubuntu automatically
chooses the time zone and detects the offset from Greenwich mean time (GMT) for you. If you
want to specify time settings, click the Set Time button, which gives you Time & Date Settings
(see Figure 3.6).

Figure 3.5 Choose the closest city to you in the world to allow Ubuntu to configure time and
region settings correctly.

Figure 3.6 Set your clocks accurately, or let the Internet do it for you.

You cannot set Ubuntu to update its time setting automatically until you have finished the
installation, but you can do a one-off synchronize, and it is worth doing this to ensure accuracy.
Click Forward to continue to the next screen.

Following on from the Time and Region screen is the keyboard layout. Ubuntu will give a good
guess at what type of keyboard is connected to your computer, but it allows you to change it in
case it should differ. Make sure to find the correct layout for your keyboard (see Figure 3.7). If in
doubt, use the text box at the bottom of the screen to try out all the keys.
Figure 3.7 Choose the most appropriate keyboard layout for your computer, and then rigorously
test it!

When you are happy that the keyboard layout is correct, click Forward to move on to the
personal details screen (see Figure 3.8). Here you need to input your full name, your required
username and password, and the name of the computer that you are installing onto.

Figure 3.8 Fill out all the fields on this screen to give you and your computer an identity.

CAUTION

When you set your password, be sure and remember what you entered! If you forget it, you will
not be able to do much with your new system because you will not be able to log on to it.

When setting a password, make sure that it has a mixture of letters and numbers to make it more
secure. For instance, a good example of a password is T1a5c0p. Although this may seem like
garbage at first glance, the easy way to remember it is by remembering the phrase This Is A
Good Choice Of Password, shortened to Tiagcop, and finally substituting some of the letters with
similar-looking numbers. Experiment with some phrases to see what you can come up with.

Click Forward to move on to partitioning.

Partitioning under Linux used to be somewhat of a black art, but Ubuntu has made it easy. You
have three main options (shown in Figure 3.9): resize the disk and use the freedup space, erase
and use the entire disc, or manually edit the partition table. Unless you have a requirement to do
so, avoid the third option; it can seriously cause trouble with other operating systems. For now,
we assume that you want to resize your partition.

Figure 3.9 Tread carefully. One false move could obliterate your Windows partition. Wait, you
wanted to do that?
Use the slider to choose how big you want your new partition to be. We recommend no less than
20GB, to give yourself plenty of breathing room on your hard drive. Click Forward to start the
resizing process. This can take some time, so you may want to go off and read some more of this
book to learn about what else you can do with Ubuntu.

Alternatively you might decide that you want to erase all the data on your disk and start from
scratch. In our opinion, this is the easiest and fastest option. Regardless of whether you go for
resizing or erasing all, you end up at the Ready to Install screen, where Ubuntu summarizes the
information that you have given it so you can check it off. The final step is to click Install. After
you do so, Ubuntu begins copying files across to your hard drive (see Figure 3.10).

Figure 3.10 Sit back as Ubuntu takes over and installs itself to your hard drive.

After about 10 minutes, the installation finishes and you are asked whether you want to remain in
the Live CD or reboot into your new system (see Figure 3.11). Click Restart Now for Ubuntu to
eject the disc and reboot back into the full desktop system.

Figure 3.11 All done. Now all you have to do is reboot and watch as your system appears.

At this point, get ready to connect your machine to the Internet. Log in to Ubuntu at the GDM
welcome page (see Figure 3.12) and you will arrive at the default Ubuntu desktop (see Figure
3.13).

Figure 3.12 Enter your username and password to log on to your new system.

Figure 3.13 All ready for you to jump right in, the Ubuntu desktop welcomes you!

TIP
Ubuntu works well with other operating systems, and you should see your other operating
system listed on the GRUB screen. If you do not, head on over to http://www.tldp.org to get a
host of tips for configuring GRUB.

First Update

The first thing that you need to do with your new system is update it to the latest package
versions. You do this mainly to ensure that you have the latest security updates available.

You can do this in a couple of ways in Ubuntu, but the easiest way to do it is to click the Updates
icon in the panel to open the Update Manager. Your screen will darken, and you will be asked
for a password. This password is the same as the one you used to log in to your system and is
used in this case to authorize Ubuntu to make a systemwide change (install software, on this
occasion).

Figure 3.14 shows the Update Manager in action.

Figure 3.14 Get the latest security and bug-fix updates for your installed software by using
Update Manager.

The application is easy to use because it automatically retrieves information on all the possible
updates available to you. Just click Install Updates to start downloading and installing the
necessary package updates, as shown in Figure 3.15.

Figure 3.15 Update Manager takes the hard work out of keeping your software current.

If you want more information, just click the Show Details arrow, or if you want Ubuntu to check
again, click the Check button to force Ubuntu to refresh the updates.
The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake)

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) based
server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server
(with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota,
Firewall, etc.).

I will use the following software:

• Web Server: Apache 2.0

• Database Server: MySQL 5.0
• Mail Server: Postfix
• DNS Server: BIND9
• FTP Server: proftpd
• POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-
IMAP.
• Webalizer for web site statistics

In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free
webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

My system's IP address in this tutorial is 192.168.0.100, and my hostname is

server1.example.com.

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways
of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work
for you!

1 Requirements

To install such a system you will need the following:

• the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server installation CD (the list of mirrors is available
here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download - I downloaded this one:
http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/releases/6.06/ubuntu-6.06-server-i386.iso)
• an internet connection.

2 The Base System

Insert your Ubuntu install CD into your system and boot from it. Select Install to the hard disk - I
did not try Install a LAMP server because I like to have full control over what gets installed to
my system:
The installation starts, and first you have to choose your language:

Then select your location:

Choose a keyboard layout:
The installer checks the installation CD, your hardware, and configures the network with DHCP
if there is a DHCP server in the network:
Enter the hostname. In this example, my system is called server1.example.com, so I enter
server1:
Now you have to partition your hard disk. I will create one big partition (with the mount point /)
and a little swap partition so I select Erase entire disk:
Configure your system's clock:

Create a user, for example the user Administrator with the user name admin:
Now the base system is being installed:
The GRUB boot loader gets installed:

The base system installation is now finished. Remove the installation CD from the CD drive and
hit Continue to reboot the system:
On to the next step...

3 Enable The root Account

After the reboot you can login with your previously created username (e.g. admin). Because we
must run all the steps from this tutorial as root user, we must enable the root account now.

Run

sudo passwd root

and give root a password. Afterwards we become root by running

su

4 Install The SSH Server

Ubuntu does not install OpenSSH by default, therefore we do it now. Run

apt-get install ssh openssh-server

You will be prompted to insert the installation CD again.

5 Configure The Network

Because the Ubuntu installer has configured our system to get its network settings via DHCP, we
have to change that now because a server should have a static IP address. Edit
/etc/network/interfaces and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address
192.168.0.100):

vi /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

Then restart your network:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

Then edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this:

vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1
 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Now run

hostname
hostname -f

Both should show server1.example.com. If they do not, reboot the system:

shutdown -r now

Afterwards, run

hostname
hostname -f

again. Now they should show server1.example.com.

From now on you can use an SSH client such as PuTTY and connect from your workstation to
your Ubuntu server and follow the remaining steps from this tutorial.

6 Edit /etc/apt/sources.list And Update Your Linux Installation

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Comment out the CD and enable some of the other repositories. It
should look like this:

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

#
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386
(20060531)]/ dapper main restricted

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386

(20060531)]/ dapper main restricted

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main
restricted
 deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main
restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the

'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself
as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security
## team.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the

'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

Then run these two commands:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

8 Quota

To install quota, run

apt-get install quota

Edit /etc/fstab to look like this (I added ,usrquota,grpquota to partition /dev/sda1 (mount point /;
your device name might be /dev/hda1 or similar):
vi /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-
ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

To enable quota, run these commands:

touch /quota.user /quota.group

chmod 600 /quota.*
mount -o remount /
quotacheck -avugm
quotaon -avug

9 DNS Server

Run

apt-get install bind9

For security reasons we want to run BIND chrooted so we have to do the following steps:

/etc/init.d/bind9 stop

Edit the file /etc/default/bind9 so that the daemon will run as the unprivileged user bind, chrooted
to /var/lib/named. Modify the line: OPTIONS=" -u bind" so that it reads OPTIONS="-u bind
-t /var/lib/named":

vi /etc/default/bind9

OPTIONS="-u bind -t /var/lib/named"

# Set RESOLVCONF=no to not run resolvconf
RESOLVCONF=yes

Create the necessary directories under /var/lib:

mkdir -p /var/lib/named/etc
mkdir /var/lib/named/dev
mkdir -p /var/lib/named/var/cache/bind
mkdir -p /var/lib/named/var/run/bind/run
Then move the config directory from /etc to /var/lib/named/etc:

mv /etc/bind /var/lib/named/etc

Create a symlink to the new config directory from the old location (to avoid problems when bind
is upgraded in the future):

ln -s /var/lib/named/etc/bind /etc/bind

Make null and random devices, and fix permissions of the directories:

mknod /var/lib/named/dev/null c 1 3
mknod /var/lib/named/dev/random c 1 8
chmod 666 /var/lib/named/dev/null /var/lib/named/dev/random
chown -R bind:bind /var/lib/named/var/*
chown -R bind:bind /var/lib/named/etc/bind

We need to modify the startup script /etc/init.d/sysklogd of sysklogd so that we can still get
important messages logged to the system logs. Modify the line: SYSLOGD="-u syslog" so that it
reads: SYSLOGD="-u syslog -a /var/lib/named/dev/log":

vi /etc/init.d/sysklogd

[...]
SYSLOGD="-u syslog -a /var/lib/named/dev/log"
[...]

Restart the logging daemon:

/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

Start up BIND, and check /var/log/syslog for errors:

/etc/init.d/bind9 start

10 MySQL

In order to install MySQL, we run

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient12-dev

We want MySQL to listen on all interfaces, not just localhost, therefore we edit
/etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment out the line bind-address = 127.0.0.1:

vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf
 [...]
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
[...]

Then we restart MySQL:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now check that networking is enabled. Run

netstat -tap

In the output you should see a line like this one:

tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:*

LISTEN 4997/mysqld

Run

mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!).

11 Postfix With SMTP-AUTH And TLS

In order to install Postfix with SMTP-AUTH and TLS do the following steps:

apt-get install postfix libsasl2 sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules libdb3-util procmail

You will be asked two questions. Answer as follows:

General type of configuration? <-- Internet Site

Mail name? <-- server1.example.com

Then run

dpkg-reconfigure postfix

Again, you'll be asked some questions:

General type of configuration? <-- Internet Site

Where should mail for root go <-- NONE
Mail name? <-- server1.example.com
Other destinations to accept mail for? (blank for none) <-- server1.example.com,
localhost.example.com, localhost
Force synchronous updates on mail queue? <-- No
Local networks? <-- 127.0.0.0/8
Use procmail for local delivery? <-- Yes
Mailbox size limit <-- 0
Local address extension character? <-- +
Internet protocols to use? <-- all

Next, do this:

postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain ='

postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous'
postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination'
postconf -e 'inet_interfaces = all'
echo 'pwcheck_method: saslauthd' >> /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf
echo 'mech_list: plain login' >> /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf

Afterwards we create the certificates for TLS:

mkdir /etc/postfix/ssl
cd /etc/postfix/ssl/
openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /etc/hosts -out smtpd.key 1024
chmod 600 smtpd.key
openssl req -new -key smtpd.key -out smtpd.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in smtpd.csr -signkey smtpd.key -out smtpd.crt
openssl rsa -in smtpd.key -out smtpd.key.unencrypted
mv -f smtpd.key.unencrypted smtpd.key
openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650

Next we configure Postfix for TLS:

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_auth_only = no'

postconf -e 'smtp_use_tls = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_use_tls = yes'
postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s'
postconf -e 'tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom'
postconf -e 'myhostname = server1.example.com'
The file /etc/postfix/main.cf should now look like this:

# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete

version

# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first

# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)

biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.

append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings

#delay_warning_time = 4h

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:$
{queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package

for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = server1.example.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = server1.example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

Restart Postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

Authentication will be done by saslauthd. We have to change a few things to make it work
properly. Because Postfix runs chrooted in /var/spool/postfix we have to do the following:

mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd

Now we have to edit /etc/default/saslauthd in order to activate saslauthd. Remove # in front of

START=yes and add the line PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r":

vi /etc/default/saslauthd

# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run

automatically
START=yes

PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r"

# You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use.

# This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include
# "shadow" or "sasldb", like this:
# MECHANISMS="pam shadow"

MECHANISMS="pam"

We must also edit /etc/init.d/saslauthd and change the location of saslauthd's PID file. Change
the value of PIDFILE to /var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid:

vi /etc/init.d/saslauthd

[...]
PIDFILE="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid"
[...]

Now start saslauthd:

/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

To see if SMTP-AUTH and TLS work properly now run the following command:

telnet localhost 25
After you have established the connection to your Postfix mail server type

ehlo localhost

If you see the lines

250-STARTTLS

and

250-AUTH

everything is fine.

Type

quit

to return to the system's shell.

12 Courier-IMAP/Courier-POP3

Run this to install Courier-IMAP/Courier-IMAP-SSL (for IMAPs on port 993) and Courier-
POP3/Courier-POP3-SSL (for POP3s on port 995):

apt-get install courier-authdaemon courier-base courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop

courier-pop-ssl courier-ssl gamin libgamin0 libglib2.0-0
You will be asked two questions:

Create directories for web-based administration ? <-- No

SSL certificate required <-- Ok

If you do not want to use ISPConfig, configure Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir*:

postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'

postconf -e 'mailbox_command ='
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

*Please note: You do not have to do this if you intend to use ISPConfig on your system as
ISPConfig does the necessary configuration using procmail recipes. But please go sure to enable
Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> EMail in the ISPConfig web interface.

13 Apache/PHP5

Now we install Apache:

apt-get install apache2 apache2-common apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils

libapr0 libexpat1 ssl-cert

Next we install PHP5:

apt-get install autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common

php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php-pear php5-ldap php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-
snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pspell

You will be asked the following question:

Continue installing libc-client without Maildir support? <-- Yes

Next we edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and change DirectoryIndex to

[...]
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php
index.php3 index.pl index.xhtml
[...]

Edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf and add Listen 443:

vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf
 Listen 80
Listen 443

Now we have to enable some Apache modules (SSL, rewrite, suexec, and include):

a2enmod ssl
a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod suexec
a2enmod include

Reload the Apache configuration:

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

13.1 Disable PHP Globally

(If you do not plan to install ISPConfig on this server, please skip this section!)

In ISPConfig you will configure PHP on a per-website basis, i.e. you can specify which website
can run PHP scripts and which one cannot. This can only work if PHP is disabled globally
because otherwise all websites would be able to run PHP scripts, no matter what you specify in
ISPConfig.

To disable PHP globally, we edit /etc/mime.types and comment out the application/x-httpd-php
lines:

vi /etc/mime.types

[...]
#application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php
#application/x-httpd-php-source phps
#application/x-httpd-php3 php3
#application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed php3p
#application/x-httpd-php4 php4
[...]

Edit /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf and comment out the following lines:

vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
# AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
# AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

Then restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

14 Proftpd

In order to install Proftpd, run

apt-get install proftpd proftpd-common ucf

You will be asked a question:

Run proftpd from inetd or standalone? <-- standalone

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

vi /etc/proftpd.conf

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

Then restart Proftpd:

/etc/init.d/proftpd restart

15 Webalizer

To install webalizer, just run

apt-get install webalizer

16 Synchronize the System Clock

It is a good idea to synchronize the system clock with an NTP (network time protocol) server
over the internet. Simply run

apt-get install ntp ntpdate

and your system time will always be in sync.

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

Run

apt-get install libhtml-parser-perl libdb-file-lock-perl libnet-dns-perl

18 ISPConfig

The configuration of the server is now finished, and if you wish you can now install ISPConfig
on it. Please check out the ISPConfig installation:
http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm

18.1 A Note On SuExec

If you want to run CGI scripts under suExec, you should specify /var/www as the home directory
for websites created by ISPConfig as Ubuntu's suExec is compiled with /var/www as Doc_Root.
Run /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2 -V, and the output should look like this:

/usr/lib/apache2/suexec2 -V

To select /var/www as the home directory for websites during the installation of ISPConfig do
the following: When you are asked for the installation mode, select the expert mode.

Later during the installation you are asked if the default directory /home/www should be the
directory where ISPConfig will create websites in. Answer n and enter /var/www as the home
directory for websites.
19 Links

• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com
• ISPConfig: http://www.ispconfig.org