apache

Qmailadmin with Apache

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Configuring Qmailadmin to work with the Apache webserver

Create the directories to hold the webmail and Qmailadmin related web files:

mkdir -p /var/websites/mail/htdocs
mkdir -p /var/websites/mail/cgi-bin
mkdir -p /var/websites/mail/logs

Assuming you are using Apache, installed as per this site's install guide:

  • Without ezmlm:

    cd /extra/src/qmailadmin-1.2.12
    ./configure \
    --enable-cgibindir=/var/websites/mail/cgi-bin \
    --enable-htmldir=/var/websites/mail/htdocs \

Web Stats

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Study the traffic to your website with a web stats analysis program.

Two popular Open Source packages for analysing web server log files are Awstats and Webalizer.

There is a detailed comparison at the Awstats website.

Webserver configuration

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Apache and Lighttpd instructions for configuring Drupal virtual hosts.

Apache Virtual Host Configuration
Enable the virtual host config file in /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf by uncommenting it:

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf and add an entry for your new Drupal install:

ServerName www.domain.com
#ServerAlias *.domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/websites/projectname/drupal-5.10

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

Apache config

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Configuration instructions for serving Trac with Apache.

TracModMython wiki page with detailed Apache instructions.

Prerequisites
Apache requires mod_python to be installed in order to run Trac.

Simple Configuration
Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and add the following to instruct Apache to redirect any URLs starting with "/trac/" to Trac:

SetHandler mod_python
PythonInterpreter main_interpreter

mod_python

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Mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. With mod_python you can write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI

Installation
Download the latest version of mod_python (3.3.1 at time of writing). Apache 2.2.11 had issues with mod_python. Downloading the latest from Apache's svn repo worked better...

WebDAV

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Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers.

Tutorial - http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO.html#AEN228

Apache needs to be configured and compiled with the --enable-dav option.

Uncomment the WebDAV config file in /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:

# Include conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf

Apache

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Installation instructions for using PHP with the Apache web server.

Compiling and Installing
Configure PHP with the options you want. In this case, we'll be adding Apache and MySQL support.

./configure \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-gd \
--with-gettext \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

If you want to include LDAP support, use:
./configure \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-gd \
--with-gettext \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-ldap

If it configures correctly, make and install the binaries:

SSL Encryption

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Secure communication with your web server by using self-signed SSL certificates.

Instructions adapted from http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html.

Rather than paying for an SSL certificate from a signing authority, we'll use a self-signed certificate to provide encryption in Apache. The client's web browser will prompt them to whether the certificate should be accepted or not - if that is going to be a problem, then you'll need to get a certificate from a recognized signing authority.

Create a directory, readable only by root to hold our working files:

mkdir ~/cert
chmod 600 ~/cert
cd ~/cert

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