ispCP Documentation howto:miscellaneous

Updating DNS files

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:24:18 +0200

Tested on ispCP 1.0.5; running Ubuntu 9.10 This guide will allow you to access the different tools provided with ispCP (PhpMyAdmin, Filemanager, Webmail, etc..) to be acessible using the following addresses : * (ispCP Panel) * (Webmail) * (Filemanager) * (PhpMyAdmin)

Change the dns template

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:26:34 +0200

It's very usual in control panels to give to the customers an url like webmail.domain.tld (domain.tld is the customer domain) In ispCP you are usually going to: With the following changes, you will be able to connect to your webmail through webmail.domain.tld

howto:miscellaneous:dns

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:29:06 +0200

This guide describes how to prepare automaticly creation of newly added zones on secondary DNS server. * Secondary DNS will access secured web page, to get configuration file with domain listing. * This file will be locally saved on Secondary DNS, and included to main bind configuration * Then Secondary DNS will make zone transfer from master (bind key configurations needed). * All run as cronjob *

E-mail, FTP, and SQL Password Changer

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:11:40 +0200

I needed the ability for user to be able to update their passwords in one easy location and without requiring the domain admin to change FTP or SQL passwords for users, so I created a PHP script that provides this functionality. The changer is based on HowTo change your Webmail password for ispCP Omega 1.0.0 • 2009-02-25. I took that code and expanded it out to include a few features:

howto:miscellaneous:google_apps

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200

Edit /etc/ispcp/bind/parts/db_e.tpl and change the following things: 1. Minimum TTL (standard 3H) to 1H 2. MX records Remove the line: IN MX 10 mail.{DMN_NAME}. and add following: IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. IN MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. IN MX 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. IN MX 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

How to Setup ispCP and Maia Mailguard on a Debian Lenny OpenVZ Container

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:26:41 +0200

Note This is a work in progress. After successfully installing ispCP and Maia, I thought I would share the steps I took to obtain a working system. To accomplish this, I am re-installing the system and recording each step taken so that I have a record of it as well. It may take a few days before I have everything completed, and the howto looking nice, so please be patient!

Migrate from one to another ispCP server

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:59:52 +0200

This HowTo is probably not complete, if you find something missing, please report this in the forum! Besides, this HowTo was used for ispCP RC2, so there will be many changes till today and it will not work out of the box. But it shall give you an idea what has to considered for a migration.

HowTo tune your MySQL performance by tuning server variables.

Sun, 10 May 2009 15:35:54 +0200

1. Download the tuning primer Script made by one of the !MySql Devs. wget http://day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh 2. Make it executable, and use it chmod +x tuning-primer.sh ./tuning-primer.sh 3. Read the output carefully and follow the instructions And don't forget to backup your old my.cnf!

1. Apache MPM

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:25:58 +0200

If you want to run ispCP on a low resources system (e.g. a virtual server) try this suggestions. On most systems Apache consumes most memory. And there are two possibilities to reduce Apache's memory usage. Try which one fits your needs better. 1.1 Configure apache worker MPM Lower the worker MPM's config values. Modify your apache2.conf accordingly: