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FTPD, BIND and ISPConfig 3.2

 Tutorial Info

Author: Till Brehm

This tutorial shows the installation of ISPConfig 3.2 on a On this page Last updated: Dec 16, 2021
CentOS 8 (64Bit) server. ISPConfig is a web hosting control Tags:
panel that allows you to configure the following services 1 Requirements antivirus, apache, bind, centos, control panels, dns,
through a web browser: Apache web server, PHP, Postfix mail 2 Preliminary Note email, ftp, ispconfig, linux, mysql, php, postfix, web
server
server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, 3 Prepare the server
ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. 4 Enable Additional Repositories and Install Some
Software
5 Quota
Enabling quota on the / (root) partition
Enabling quota on a separate /var partition
6 Install Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin
Optional: Change the Apache MPM Module
7 Install Dovecot
8 Install Postfix
9 Install Getmail
10 Set MySQL Passwords and Configure
phpMyAdmin
11 Install Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
and Postgrey
12 Installing Apache with mod_php,
mod_fcgi/PHP, PHP-FPM
13 Installation of mod_python
14 Install PureFTPd
15 Install BIND
16 Install AWStats
17 Install Jailkit
18 Install Fail2Ban
19 Install rkhunter
20 Install Mailman
21 Install Roundcube webmail
22 Install ISPConfig 3.2
23 First ISPConfig Login
23.1 The ISPConfig 3 Manual
24 Download as a virtual machine
25 Links

1 Requirements

To install such a system you will need the following:

A Centos 8 minimal server system. This can be a server installed from scratch as described in our Centos 8 minimal server
tutorial or a virtual-server or root-server from a hosting company that has a minimal Centos 8 setup installed.
A fast Internet connection.

 VMware image download

2 Preliminary Note
The Perfect Server CentOS
8 with Apache, PHP,
In this tutorial, I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100 and the gateway Postfix, Dovecot, Pure- x
192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate. FTPD, BIND and ISPConfig
3.2 as ready to use virtual
machine image download
 in ovf/ova format, compatible with VMWare and
Virtualbox.
3 Prepare the server  
Download: CentOS-8-2-perfect-server-apache.ova
Guide: VMWare Image Import Guide.
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Then you should check that the firewall has really been disabled. To do so, run the command:

iptables -L

The output should look like this:

[root@server1 ~]# iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination

Or use the firewall-cmd command:

firewall-cmd --state

[root@server1 ~]# firewall-cmd --state

not running

[root@server1 ~]#
Now I will install the network configuration editor and the shell based editor "nano" that I will use in the next steps to edit the
config files:

dnf -y install nano wget NetworkManager-tui yum-utils

If you did not configure your network card during the installation, you can do that now. Run...

nmtui

... and go to Edit a connection:

Select your network interface:

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Then fill in your network details - disable DHCP and fill in a static IP address, a netmask, your gateway, and one or two
nameservers, then hit Ok:
 Next select OK to confirm the changes that you made in the network settings

and Quit to close the nmtui network configuration tool.

You should run

ifconfig

now to check if the installer got your IP address right:

[root@server1 ~]# ifconfig

ens33: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 192.168.0.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255

        inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:feee:b665  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        inet6 2003:e1:bf22:1b00:20c:29ff:feee:b665  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>

        ether 00:0c:29:ee:b6:65  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 2874  bytes 1369892 (1.3 MiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 546  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 968  bytes 160901 (157.1 KiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536

        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0

        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>

        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)

        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

If your network card does not show up there, then it not be enabled on boot, In this case, open the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens33

and set ONBOOT to yes:

[...]

ONBOOT=yes

[...]
 and reboot the server.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf if it lists all nameservers that you've previously configured:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

If nameservers are missing, run

nmtui

and add the missing nameservers again.

Now, on to the configuration...

Adjusting /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname

Next, we will edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this:

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1

::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

Set the hostname in the /etc/hostname file. The file shall contain the fully qualified domain name (e.g. server1.example.com
in my case) and not just the short name like "server1". Open the file with the nano editor:

nano /etc/hostname

And set the hostname in the file.

server1.example.com

Save the file and exit nano.

Set SELinux to permissive

SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. ISPConfig does not ship with an SELinux
rule set, therefore I set it to permissive (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on).

Edit /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX=permissive:

nano /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.

# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:

# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.

# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.

# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.

SELINUX=permissive

# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:

# targeted - Targeted processes are protected,

# mls - Multi Level Security protection.

SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Afterwards we must reboot the system:

reboot

4 Enable Additional Repositories and Install Some Software

First, we import the GPG keys for software packages:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*

 Then we enable the EPEL repository on our CentOS system as lots of the packages that we are going to install in the course
of this tutorial are not available in the official CentOS 8 repository:

dnf -y install epel-release

Activate Power Tools:

dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

Then we update our existing packages on the system:

dnf -y update

Now we install some software packages that are needed later on:

dnf -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

5 Quota

(If you have chosen a different partitioning scheme than I did, you must adjust this chapter so that quota applies to the
partitions where you need it.)

To install quota, we run this command:

dnf -y install quota

Now we check if the quota is already enabled for the file system where the website (/var/www) and Maildir data (var/vmail) is
stored. In this example setup, I have one big root partition, so I search for ' / ':

mount | grep ' / '

[root@server1 ~]# mount | grep ' / '

/dev/mapper/centos-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota)

[root@server1 ~]#

If you have a separate /var partition, then use:

mount | grep ' /var '

instead. If the line contains the word "noquota", then proceed with the following steps to enable quota.

Enabling quota on the / (root) partition

Normally you would enable quota in the /etc/fstab file, but if the filesystem is the root filesystem "/", then quota has to be
enabled by a boot parameter of the Linux Kernel.

Edit the grub configuration file:

nano /etc/default/grub

Search for the line that starts with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and add rootflags=uquota,gquota to the commandline
parameters so that the resulting line looks like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/cl-swap rd.lvm.lv=cl/root rd.lvm.lv=c

l/swap rootflags=uquota,gquota"

and apply the changes by running the following command.

cp /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /boot/grub2/grub.cfg_bak

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

and reboot the server.

 reboot

Now check if quota is enabled:

mount | grep ' / '

[root@server1 ~]# mount | grep ' / '

/dev/mapper/centos-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,usrquota,grpquota)

[root@server1 ~]#

When quota is active, we can see "usrquota,grpquota" in the mount option list.

Enabling quota on a separate /var partition

If you have a separate /var partition, then edit /etc/fstab and add ,uquota,gquota to the / partition
(/dev/mapper/centos-var):

nano /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab

# Created by anaconda on Sun Sep 21 16:33:45 2014

# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'

# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info

/dev/mapper/centos-root / xfs defaults 1 1

/dev/mapper/centos-var /var xfs defaults,uquota,gquota 1 2

UUID=9ac06939-7e43-4efd-957a-486775edd7b4 /boot xfs defaults 1 3

/dev/mapper/centos-swap swap swap defaults 0 0

Then run

mount -o remount /var

quotacheck -avugm

quotaon -avug

to enable quota. When you get an error that there is no partition with quota enabled, then reboot the server before you
proceed.

6 Install Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin

Enable the Remi repository to get newer PHP versions (currently PHP 7.4):

dnf install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

dnf -y install yum-utils

dnf -y module reset php

dnf -y module install php:remi-7.4

dnf update

We can install the needed packages with one single command:

dnf -y install httpd mod_ssl mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd php-mbstring

To ensure that the server cannot be attacked through the HTTPOXY vulnerability, we will disable the HTTP_PROXY header
in apache globally. 

Add the apache header rule at the end of the httpd.conf file:

echo "RequestHeader unset Proxy early" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

And restart httpd to apply the configuration change.

service httpd restart

Install phpMyAdmin:
 cd /tmp

wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/5.0.2/phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz

tar xzvf phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin

mv phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages/* /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp

chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/phpmyadmin

chmod 777 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp

Optional: Change the Apache MPM Module

CentOS 8 uses the Apache MPM Event module by default, this is good on one side, as it allows you to use HTTP/2 protocol.
On the other hand, it does not allow you to use the apache mod_php module. In general, one should use PHP-FPM as
default today and ISPConfig supports that. In case you need the old mod_php mode for compatibility reasons, then you can
switch the Apache MPM like this:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf

Add a # in front of the MPM event line so it looks like this:

# LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so

Then remove the # in from of the MPM Prefork line, so it looks like this:

LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so

Then restart httpd to apply the configuration change.

service httpd restart

7 Install Dovecot

Dovecot can be installed as follows:

dnf -y install dovecot dovecot-mysql dovecot-pigeonhole

Create an empty dovecot-sql.conf file and create symlinks:

touch /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf

ln -s /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf /etc/dovecot-sql.conf

ln -s /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf

Now create the system startup links and start Dovecot:

systemctl enable dovecot

systemctl start dovecot

8 Install Postfix

Postfix can be installed as follows:

dnf -y install postfix postfix-mysql

Next, open the TLS/SSL and submission ports in Postfix:

nano /etc/postfix/master.cf

Uncomment the submission and smtps sections as follows and add lines where necessary so that this section of the
master.cf file looks exactly like the one below. IMPORTANT: Remove the # in front of the lines that start with smtps and
submission too and not just from the -o lines after these lines!

[...]

submission inet n - n - - smtpd

-o syslog_name=postfix/submission

-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt

-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes

-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

# -o smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient=no

 # -o smtpd_client_restrictions=$mua_client_restrictions

# -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=$mua_helo_restrictions

# -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=$mua_sender_restrictions

# -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=

# -o smtpd_relay_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING

smtps inet n - n - - smtpd

-o syslog_name=postfix/smtps

-o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes

-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes

-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

# -o smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient=no

# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=$mua_client_restrictions

# -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=$mua_helo_restrictions

# -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=$mua_sender_restrictions

# -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=

# -o smtpd_relay_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject

# -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING

[...]

Then turn off Sendmail and start Postfix and MariaDB (MySQL):

systemctl enable mariadb.service

systemctl start mariadb.service

systemctl enable postfix.service

systemctl restart postfix.service

We disable sendmail to ensure that it does not get started in case it is installed on your server. So the error message "Failed
to issue method call: Unit sendmail.service not loaded." can be ignored.

To enable support for old/outdated devices, run this command (optional, only use when you want old mail devices to connect
as it weakens the SSL/TLS setup by allowing less secure ciphers):

update-crypto-policies --set LEGACY

9 Install Getmail

Getmail can be installed as follows:

dnf install python2

cd /tmp

wget http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/getmail-5.14.tar.gz
tar xvfz getmail-5.14.tar.gz

cd getmail-5.14

python2 setup.py build

python2 setup.py install

10 Set MySQL Passwords and Configure phpMyAdmin

Set passwords for the MySQL root account:

mysql_secure_installation

[root@server1 tmp]# mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB

SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current

password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and

you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,

so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none):

OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MariaDB

root user without the proper authorisation.

Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER

New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword

Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword

Password updated successfully!

Reloading privilege tables..

 ... Success!

By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone

to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for

them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation

go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a

production environment.

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER

 ... Success!

Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.  This

ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER

 ... Success!

By default, MariaDB comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can

access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed

before moving into a production environment.

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER

 - Dropping test database...

 ... Success!
 - Removing privileges on test database...

 ... Success!

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far

will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <-- ENTER

 ... Success!

Cleaning up...

All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB

installation should now be secure.

Thanks for using MariaDB!

[root@server1 tmp]#

Now we configure phpMyAdmin. Create this phpMyAdmin configuration file:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Add this content to the file:

# phpMyAdmin - Web based MySQL browser written in php

# Allows only localhost by default

# But allowing phpMyAdmin to anyone other than localhost should be considered

# dangerous unless properly secured by SSL

Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/>

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>

# Apache 2.4

# <RequireAny>

# Require ip 127.0.0.1

# Require ip ::1

# </RequireAny>

</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>

# Apache 2.2

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from All

Allow from 127.0.0.1

Allow from ::1

</IfModule>

</Directory>

Next, we change the authentication in phpMyAdmin from cookie to http:

cp -pf /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.sample.inc.php /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

nano /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

[...]

/* Authentication type */

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';

[...]

Then we create the system startup links for Apache and start it:
 systemctl enable httpd

systemctl restart httpd

Now you can direct your browser to http://server1.example.com/phpmyadmin/ or

http://192.168.0.100/phpmyadmin/ and log in with the user name root and your new root MySQL password.

11 Install Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Postgrey

To install amavisd-new, SpamAssassin and ClamAV, run the following command:

dnf -y install amavisd-new spamassassin clamav-server clamav-data clamav-update clamav-file

system clamav clamav-scanner-systemd clamav-devel clamav-lib clamav-server-systemd unzip bz
ip2 perl-DBD-mysql postgrey re2c

Then we start freshclam, amavisd, and clamd.amavisd:

sa-update

freshclam

systemctl enable amavisd.service

systemctl start amavisd.service

systemctl start clamd@amavisd.service

systemctl enable postgrey.service

systemctl start postgrey.service

In the next step, we configure postgrey. Open the file /etc/sysconfig/postgrey in an editor:

nano /etc/sysconfig/postgrey

and change the line:

POSTGREY_TYPE="--unix=/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/socket"

to

POSTGREY_TYPE="--inet=10023"

Save the file and restart postgrey:

service postgrey restart

To configure amavisd, edit the file /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf:

nano /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf

and change the line:

LocalSocket /run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.sock

to

LocalSocket /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock

Save the changed configuration file and restart ClamAV:

systemctl restart clamd@amavisd.service

Now we have to create a system unit for the freshclam service. Create a new file /usr/lib/systemd/system/freshclam.service:

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/freshclam.service

and enter the following content into that file:

[Unit]

Description = ClamAV Scanner

After = network.target

 [Service]

Type = forking

# if you want to scan more than one in a day change the number 1 with your desired number in
below line.

ExecStart = /usr/bin/freshclam -d -c 1

Restart = on-failure

PrivateTmp =true

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save the file and then enable and start the service.

systemctl enable freshclam.service

systemctl start freshclam.service

systemctl status freshclam.service

12 Installing Apache with mod_php, mod_fcgi/PHP, PHP-FPM

ISPConfig 3 allows you to use mod_php, mod_fcgi/PHP, cgi/PHP, and PHP-FPM on a per website basis.

We can install Apache2 with mod_php, mod_fcgid, and PHP as follows:

dnf -y install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml p
hp-xmlrpc php-pecl-apc php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-snmp php-soap php-tidy curl curl-devel p
erl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel mod_fcgid php-cli httpd-devel php-fpm php
-intl php-imagick php-pspell wget

Next, we open /etc/php.ini...

nano /etc/php.ini

... and change the error reporting (so that notices aren't shown any longer), set the timezone and uncomment
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1:

[...]

;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT

[...]

; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI. PHP's

; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok

; what PATH_INFO is. For more information on PAppp.tldTH_INFO, see the cgi specs. Setting

; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix its paths to conform to the spec. A setting

; of zero causes PHP to behave as before. Default is 1. You should fix your scripts

; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.

; http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.cgi.fix-pathinfo

cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

[...]

date.timezone = 'Europe/Berlin'

[...]

Enable httpd and PHP-FPM to get started at boot time and start the PHP-FPM service.

systemctl start php-fpm.service

systemctl enable php-fpm.service

systemctl enable httpd.service

Finally, we restart Apache:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Now we will add support for Let's encrypt. ISPConfig is using acme.sh now as Let's Encrypt client. Install acme.sh using the
following command:

curl https://get.acme.sh | sh -s

13 Installation of mod_python

The Apache module mod_python is not available as RPM package, therefore we will compile it from source. The first step is
to install the python development files and download the current mod_python version as .tar.gz file

dnf -y install python3-devel

 cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://dist.modpython.org/dist/mod_python-3.5.0.tgz

tar xfz mod_python-3.5.0.tgz

cd mod_python-3.5.0

and then configure and compile the module.

./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python3

make

There is an error in the compiled module that will cause the installation to fail with the error "version = "fatal: Not a git
repository (or any of the parent directories): .git". To fix that, run this sed command (the command is one line!).

sed -e 's/(git describe --always)/(git describe --always 2>\/dev\/null)/g' -e 's/`git descr

ibe --always`/`git describe --always 2>\/dev\/null`/g' -i $( find . -type f -name Makefile
\* -o -name version.sh )

Then install the module with this command.

make install

and enable the module in Apache:

echo 'LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so' > /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/10-pytho

n.conf

systemctl restart httpd.service

14 Install PureFTPd

PureFTPd can be installed with the following command:

dnf -y install pure-ftpd

Then create the system startup links and start PureFTPd:

systemctl enable pure-ftpd.service

systemctl start pure-ftpd.service

Now we configure PureFTPd to allow FTP and TLS sessions. FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all
data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more
secure.

OpenSSL is needed by TLS; to install OpenSSL, we simply run:

dnf install openssl

Open /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf...

nano /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf

If you want to allow FTP and TLS sessions, set TLS to 1 by removing the # in front of the TLS line. It is highly recommended
to enable TLS.

[...]

# This option can accept three values :

# 0 : disable SSL/TLS encryption layer (default).

# 1 : accept both traditional and encrypted sessions.

# 2 : refuse connections that don't use SSL/TLS security mechanisms,

# including anonymous sessions.

# Do _not_ uncomment this blindly. Be sure that :

# 1) Your server has been compiled with SSL/TLS support (--with-tls),

# 2) A valid certificate is in place,

# 3) Only compatible clients will log in.

TLS 1

[...]

In order to use TLS, we must create an SSL certificate. I create it in /etc/ssl/private/, therefore I create that directory
first:
 mkdir -p /etc/ssl/private/

Afterward, we can generate the SSL certificate as follows:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7300 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem
-out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem

Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]: <-- Enter your Country Name (e.g., "DE").

State or Province Name (full name) []:<-- Enter your State or Province Name.

Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:<-- Enter your City.

Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:<-- Enter your Organization Name (e.g., the name
of your company).

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:<-- Enter your Organizational Unit Name (e.g. "IT Department").

Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:<-- Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name of
the system (e.g. "server1.example.com").

Email Address []:<-- Enter your Email Address.

Change the permissions of the SSL certificate:

chmod 600 /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem

Create a DHParam file:

openssl dhparam -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd-dhparams.pem 2048

Finally, restart PureFTPd:

systemctl restart pure-ftpd.service

That's it. You can now try to connect using your FTP client; however, you should configure your FTP client to use TLS.

15 Install BIND

We can install BIND as follows:

dnf -y install bind bind-utils haveged

Make a backup of the existing /etc/named.conf file and create a new one as follows:

cp /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf_bak

cat /dev/null > /etc/named.conf

nano /etc/named.conf

//

// named.conf
//

// Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS

// server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only).

//

// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.

//

options {

listen-on port 53 { any; };

listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; };

directory "/var/named";

dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";

statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";

memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";

allow-query { any; };

allow-recursion {"none";};

recursion no;

};

logging {

channel default_debug {

file "data/named.run";

severity dynamic;

};

};

zone "." IN {
type hint;

file "named.ca";

};

include "/etc/named.conf.local";
 Create the file /etc/named.conf.local that is included at the end of /etc/named.conf (/etc/named.conf.local
will later on get populated by ISPConfig if you create DNS zones in ISPConfig):

touch /etc/named.conf.local

Then we create the startup links and start BIND:

systemctl enable named.service

systemctl start named.service

systemctl enable haveged.service

systemctl start haveged.service

16 Install AWStats

AWStats can be installed as follows:

dnf -y install awstats perl-DateTime-Format-HTTP perl-DateTime-Format-Builder

The alternative web statistics application 'webalizer' is not available for CentOS 8 anymore, so you will only be able to use
AWStats.

17 Install Jailkit

Jailkit is used to chroot SSH users and cronjobs. It can be installed as follows:

ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

cd /tmp

wget http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/jailkit-2.21.tar.gz

tar xvfz jailkit-2.21.tar.gz

cd jailkit-2.21

./configure

make

make install

cd ..

rm -rf jailkit-2.21*

18 Install Fail2Ban

This is optional but recommended, because the ISPConfig monitor tries to show the log.

dnf -y install iptables-services fail2ban fail2ban-systemd

systemctl stop firewalld.service

systemctl mask firewalld.service

systemctl disable firewalld.service

Next we create the /etc/fail2ban/jail.local file and enable monitoring for ssh, email and ftp service.

nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

Add the following content to the jail.local file:

[sshd]

enabled = true

action = iptables[name=sshd, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]

[pure-ftpd]

enabled = true

action = iptables[name=FTP, port=ftp, protocol=tcp]

maxretry = 3

[dovecot]

enabled = true

action = iptables-multiport[name=dovecot, port="pop3,pop3s,imap,imaps", protocol=tcp]

maxretry = 5

[postfix-sasl]

enabled = true

action = iptables-multiport[name=postfix-sasl, port="smtp,smtps,submission", protocol=tcp]

maxretry = 3

Then create the system startup links for fail2ban and start it:
 systemctl enable fail2ban.service

systemctl start fail2ban.service

19 Install rkhunter

rkhunter can be installed as follows:

dnf -y install rkhunter

20 Install Mailman

If you like to manage mailing lists with Mailman on your server, then install mailman now. Mailman is supported by
ISPConfig, so you will be able to create new mailing lists trough ISPConfig later.

dnf -y install mailman

Before we can start Mailman, a first mailing list called mailman must be created:

touch /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

postmap /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman

ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman /usr/bin/mailman

[root@server1 tmp]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman

Enter the email of the person running the list: <-- admin email address, e.g. listadmin@example.com

Initial mailman password: <-- admin password for the mailman list

To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or

equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the
`newaliases' program:

## mailman mailing list

mailman:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"

mailman-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"

mailman-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"

mailman-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"

mailman-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"

mailman-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"

mailman-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"

mailman-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"

mailman-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
mailman-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

Hit enter to notify mailman owner... <-- ENTER

[root@server1 tmp]#

Open /etc/aliases afterwards...

nano /etc/aliases

... and add the following lines:

[...]

mailman: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"

mailman-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"

mailman-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"

mailman-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"

mailman-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"

mailman-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"

mailman-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"

mailman-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"

mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"

mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

Run

newaliases

afterwards and restart Postfix:

systemctl restart postfix.service

 Now open the Mailman Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf...

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf

... and add the line ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/. Comment out Alias
/pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ and add the line Alias /pipermail
/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/:

# httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/

<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>

AllowOverride None

Options ExecCGI

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

#Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/

Alias /pipermail /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/

<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

AddDefaultCharset Off

</Directory>

# Uncomment the following line, to redirect queries to /mailman to the

# listinfo page (recommended).

# RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo

Restart Apache:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Create the system startup links for Mailman and start it:

systemctl enable mailman.service

systemctl start mailman.service

After you have installed ISPConfig 3, you can access Mailman as follows:

You can use the alias /cgi-bin/mailman for all Apache vhosts (please note that suExec and CGI must be disabled for all
vhosts from which you want to access Mailman!), which means you can access the Mailman admin interface for a list at
http://<vhost>/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/<listname>, and the web page for users of a mailing list can be found at
http://<vhost>/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/<listname>.

Under http://<vhost>/pipermail/<listname> you can find the mailing list archives.

21 Install Roundcube webmail

To install the RoundCube webmail client, download the latest version with wget to the /tmp folder:

cd /tmp

wget https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/download/1.4.3/roundcubemail-1.4.3
-complete.tar.gz

Unpack the tar.gz archive and move the RoundCube source to /usr/share/roundcubemail

tar xfz roundcubemail-1.4.3-complete.tar.gz

mkdir /usr/share/roundcubemail

mv /tmp/roundcubemail-1.4.3/* /usr/share/roundcubemail/

chown -R root:root /usr/share/roundcubemail

chown apache /usr/share/roundcubemail/temp

chown apache /usr/share/roundcubemail/logs

Create a roundcubemail.conf configuration file with nano editor:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf

And add the following content to that file:

# Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client

Alias /roundcubemail /usr/share/roundcubemail

Alias /webmail /usr/share/roundcubemail

# Define who can access the Webmail

# You can enlarge permissions once configured

<Directory /usr/share/roundcubemail/>

Options none

AllowOverride Limit

Require all granted

</Directory>

# Define who can access the installer

# keep this secured once configured

<Directory /usr/share/roundcubemail/installer>

Options none

AllowOverride Limit

Require all granted

</Directory>

# Those directories should not be viewed by Web clients.

<Directory /usr/share/roundcubemail/bin/>

Order Allow,Deny

Deny from all

</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/roundcubemail/plugins/enigma/home/>

Order Allow,Deny

Deny from all

</Directory>

Restart Apache:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Now we need a database for RoundCube mail, we will initialize it as follows:

mysql -u root -p

At MariaDB prompt use:

CREATE DATABASE roundcubedb;

CREATE USER roundcubeuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'roundcubepassword';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on roundcubedb.* to roundcubeuser@localhost ;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

I am using the details for the RoundCube database as an example, please replace the values as per your choice for security
reasons.

Now we will install RoundCube in the browser at http://192.168.0.100/roundcubemail/installer

Now create the config.inc.php file:

nano /usr/share/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php

<?php

/* Local configuration for Roundcube Webmail */

// ----------------------------------

// SQL DATABASE

// ----------------------------------

// Database connection string (DSN) for read+write operations

// Format (compatible with PEAR MDB2): db_provider://user:password@host/database

// Currently supported db_providers: mysql, pgsql, sqlite, mssql, sqlsrv, oracle

// For examples see http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.mdb2.intro-dsn.php

// NOTE: for SQLite use absolute path (Linux): 'sqlite:////full/path/to/sqlite.db?mode=0646'

// or (Windows): 'sqlite:///C:/full/path/to/sqlite.db'

$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcubeuser:roundcubepassword@localhost/roundcubedb';

// ----------------------------------

// IMAP

// ----------------------------------

// The IMAP host chosen to perform the log-in.

// Leave blank to show a textbox at login, give a list of hosts

// to display a pulldown menu or set one host as string.

// To use SSL/TLS connection, enter hostname with prefix ssl:// or tls://

// Supported replacement variables:

// %n - hostname ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])

// %t - hostname without the first part

// %d - domain (http hostname $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] without the first part)

// %s - domain name after the '@' from e-mail address provided at login screen

// For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %t = domain.tld

// WARNING: After hostname change update of mail_host column in users table is

// required to match old user data records with the new host.

$config['default_host'] = 'localhost';

$config['smtp_server'] = 'localhost';

$config['smtp_port'] = 25;

// provide an URL where a user can get support for this Roundcube installation

// PLEASE DO NOT LINK TO THE ROUNDCUBE.NET WEBSITE HERE!

$config['support_url'] = '';

// This key is used for encrypting purposes, like storing of imap password

// in the session. For historical reasons it's called DES_key, but it's used

// with any configured cipher_method (see below).

$config['des_key'] = 'pb0UucO0eqjgvhrqYlFTBVjE';

// ----------------------------------

// PLUGINS

// ----------------------------------

// List of active plugins (in plugins/ directory)

$config['plugins'] = array();

// Set the spell checking engine. Possible values:

// - 'googie' - the default (also used for connecting to Nox Spell Server, see 'spellcheck_ur
i' setting)

// - 'pspell' - requires the PHP Pspell module and aspell installed

// - 'enchant' - requires the PHP Enchant module

// - 'atd' - install your own After the Deadline server or check with the people at http://ww
w.afterthedeadline.com before using their API

// Since Google shut down their public spell checking service, the default settings

// connect to http://spell.roundcube.net which is a hosted service provided by Roundcube.

// You can connect to any other googie-compliant service by setting 'spellcheck_uri' accordin
gly.

$config['spellcheck_engine'] = 'pspell';

$config['enable_installer'] = true;

Then press "continue" in the web installer. On the following page, press on the button "Initialize database".

Finally, disable the Roundecubemail installer. Change the RoundCube config.inc.php configuration file

nano /usr/share/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php

and change the line:

$config['enable_installer'] = true;

to:

$config['enable_installer'] = false;

Roundcube is available now under the aliases /webmail and /roundcubemail on your server:

http://192.168.0.100/webmail

The RoundCube login is the email address and password of an email account that you create later in ISPConfig.

22 Install ISPConfig 3.2

The ISPConfig installer will configure all services like Postfix, Dovecot, etc. for you.
You now also have the possibility to let the installer create an SSL vhost for the ISPConfig control panel so that ISPConfig
can be accessed using https:// instead of http://. To achieve this, just press ENTER when you see this question: Do
you want a secure (SSL) connection to the ISPConfig web interface (y,n) [y]:.

To install ISPConfig 3.2 nightly build, do this:

cd /tmp

wget -O ispconfig.tar.gz https://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz

tar xfz ispconfig.tar.gz

cd ispconfig3*/install/

The next step is to run:

php -q install.php

This will start the ISPConfig 3 installer. The installer will configure all services like Postfix, Dovecot, etc. for you.

[root@server1 install]# php install.php

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

_____ ___________ _____ __ _ ____

|_ _/ ___| ___ \ / __ \ / _(_) /__ \

| | \ `--.| |_/ / | / \/ ___ _ __ | |_ _ __ _ _/ /

| | `--. \ __/ | | / _ \| '_ \| _| |/ _` | |_ |

_| |_/\__/ / | | \__/\ (_) | | | | | | | (_| | ___\ \

\___/\____/\_| \____/\___/|_| |_|_| |_|\__, | \____/

__/ |

|___/

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>> Initial configuration

Operating System: CentOS 8.2

Following will be a few questions for primary configuration so be careful.

Default values are in [brackets] and can be accepted with <ENTER>.

Tap in "quit" (without the quotes) to stop the installer.

Select language (en,de) [en]: <-- Hit Enter

Installation mode (standard,expert) [standard]: <-- Hit Enter

Full qualified hostname (FQDN) of the server, eg server1.domain.tld [server1.example.com]: <-

- Hit Enter

MySQL server hostname [localhost]: <-- Hit Enter

MySQL server port [3306]: <-- Hit Enter

MySQL root username [root]: <-- Hit Enter

MySQL root password []: <-- Ente the MySQL root password here

MySQL database to create [dbispconfig]: <-- Hit Enter

MySQL charset [utf8]: <-- Hit Enter

Configuring Postgrey

Configuring Postfix

Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key

................................++

..............................................................................................
++

writing new private key to 'smtpd.key'

-----

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated

into your certificate request.

What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank

For some fields there will be a default value,

If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.

-----

Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]: <-- Enter 2 Letter country code, e.g. US

State or Province Name (full name) []: <-- Enter anme of State or Province

Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]: <-- Name of city

Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]: <-- Company name