Category: Centos

            • Qmail SMTP Relay

              If you have a Qmail server and you want to allow a specific IP to send emails (relay) through Qmail all you have to do is to add in /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp :

              IP:allow,RELAYCLIENT=”",RBLSMTPD=”",NOP0FCHECK=”0″,DKSIGN=”/var/qmail/control/domainkeys/domain.com/dkim1″

              Where IP is the IP of your remote email server. You can even specify something like : aaa.bbb.ccc.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=”"

              After this you have to run :

              tcprules /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp

            • Nginx + php 5.2.17 + php-fpm

              Download the needed packages and store them in /usr/src:

              http://us.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.17.tar.gz

              http://php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz

              http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.1.0.tar.gz

              Then run :

              tar -xvzf php-5.2.17.tar.gz
              gzip -cd php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz | sudo patch -d php-5.2.17 -p1
              cd php-5.2.17
              ./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --enable-pdo --with-curl --disable-debug --with-pic --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --enable-xml --with-zlib --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-pcntl --enable-mbregex --with-mhash --with-xsl --enable-zip --with-pcre-regex --with-gd --without-pdo-sqlite --with-pdo-mysql --without-sqlite --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-mysql --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-exif --enable-ftp --with-gettext --with-imap --with-mysqli --with-openssl --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl --enable-dbase --with-gmp --enable-shmop --enable-wddx

              make all install

              Note that you can add –prefix to install the binaries in a different location than the default one.

              After compilation is done :

              strip /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
              cp sapi/cgi/fpm/php-fpm /etc/init.d/
              chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fpm

              cp /usr/src/php-5.2.17/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/lib/php.ini
              mkdir /etc/php/
              ln -s /usr/local/lib/php.ini /etc/php/php.ini
              ln -s /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf /etc/php/php-fpm.conf

              Make sure you edit /etc/php/php-fpm.conf and set the proper user/group (and permissions if its the case).

              Then compile Nginx:

              tar zxvf nginx-1.1.0.tar.gz
              ./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_smtp_module --with-http_stub_status_module
              make && sudo make install

              The same you can modify the –prefix here.

            • Plesk 10 nginx reverse proxy configuration in front of Apache

              Plesk 10 nginx reverse proxy configuration

              On older Plesk version (

              websrvmng –set-http-port –port=8080

              Starting with Plesk 10 this is not so easy since you have to edit a php file called /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/default/domain/domainVirtualHost.php. In my case instead of :

              domain->physicalHosting->ipAddress->address ?>:server->webserver->httpsPort : $VAR->server->webserver->httpPort ?>>
              ServerName "domain->asciiName ?>:server->webserver->httpsPort : $VAR->server->webserver->httpPort ?>"

              I’ve set :

               

              <VirtualHost <?php echo $OPT['ipAddress']->escapedAddress ?>:<?php echo $OPT['ssl'] ? 8043 : 8080 ?>>
              ServerName “<?php echo $VAR->domain->asciiName ?>:<?php echo $OPT['ssl'] ? 8043 : 8080 ?>”


              Where 8043 will be the new https port and 8080 will be the http port.

              After this change I had to run :

              /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng –reconfigure-all

              Note that this is only for Plesk 10.x. On 9.x we used to have

              /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-all

              After this make sure that the Apache server has set in its configuration files (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) Listen 8080 instead of Listen 80. Same thing for the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file, Listen 8043 instead of Listen 443.

              Then you need to install nginx (yum install nginx) and download this zip file that these guys provided http://www.grafxsoftware.com/download/nginx/nginx_setup.zip. Furthermore you can check their http://www.grafxsoftware.com/faq.php/HOW-TO-configure-PLESK-with-NGinx-proxy-reverse/1/1/.

              Once downloaded run:

              sh generate_nginx_conf.sh

              Verify with “nginx -t” that there isn’t any error and finally restart the involved services :

              service httpd restart
              service nginx restart

              Make sure that 8043 and 8080 accept connections. (Note that its not necessary to change the https port).

            • Add new storage to VM in XenServer

              Just type :

              xe vm-disk-add disk-size=5GiB vm=node1

              Then in node1 if you do “cat /proc/partitions” you should see the new storage.

            • Centos 6.0 XenServer templates

              To add templates for CentOS 6.0 you can use the RHEL 6.0 templates:

              For CentOS 32 bit run:

              xe vm-clone uuid=`xe template-list name-label=Red\ Hat\ Enterprise\ Linux\ 6\ \(32-bit\) –minimal` new-name-label=”CentOS 6.0 (32-bit)”

              For CentOS 64 bit run:

              xe vm-clone uuid=`xe template-list name-label=Red\ Hat\ Enterprise\ Linux\ 6\ \(64-bit\) –minimal` new-name-label=”CentOS 6.0 (64-bit)”

            • Delete template XenServer

              Sometimes XenServer doesn’t allow you to delete templates from the XenCenter GUI or even the CLI. Here is how to delete templates from the CLI in three steps:

              Run:

              xe template-list name-label=CentOS\ 5.6\ \(32-bit\)
              And remember the uuid:
              uuid ( RO) : 0ce71430-d7ef-00f8-07d9-4166953c4f19

              Then:

              xe template-param-set other-config:default_template=false uuid=0ce71430-d7ef-00f8-07d9-4166953c4f19

              Then :

              xe template-param-set is-a-template=false uuid=0ce71430-d7ef-00f8-07d9-4166953c4f19

              And then:

              xe vm-destroy uuid=0ce71430-d7ef-00f8-07d9-4166953c4f19

            • Centos 6 released

              Finally after almost one hear since RHEL 6.0 was released now Centos 6.0 is available to download.

              Check Release notes : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0

              and official announcement:

              http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-July/017645.html