PPPower Server

AN!Wiki :: How To :: PPPower Server

With tongue firmly in cheek, this is a tutorial on building an EL6 server for hosting website and email using PostgreSQL, Postfix and Postgrey for mail and Apache for web. There are many canned and arguably superior was of accomplishing the same, but this is what I user for this server.

Post OS Install

First, some post-install preparation. We'll need to set up some basic security, a program to report server statistics, and some 3rd-party yum repositories for additional software.

Yum repo install.

yum -y install yum-protectbase
rpm -Uvh https://alteeve.ca/an-repo/el6/RPMS/noarch/alteeve-repo-0.1-3.noarch.rpm
yum clean expire-cache
yum -y update

The yum-protectbase plugin will ensure that the 3rd-party repos play nicely and never overwrite the Base repos. To use this plugin with a specific repo, add protect=0 or protect=1 to the repo's config file.

cp /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.orig
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
# add protect=1 to each paragraph
diff -U 0 /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.orig /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

--- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.orig	2012-05-07 01:07:47.688145406 -0400
+++ /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo	2012-05-07 01:08:15.915322496 -0400
@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+protect=1
@@ -26,0 +28 @@
+protect=1
@@ -34,0 +37 @@
+protect=1
@@ -43,0 +47 @@
+protect=1
@@ -52,0 +57 @@
+protect=1

Protecting against malicious users with Denyhosts.

Denyhosts is a daemon that watches for too many failed logins via ssh. It uses TCP-wrappers to deny the user access to ssh (or any service) on the server after X failed logins. It has the option to download a list of known malicious IPs and add them to /hosts.deny, making possible to block attackers before they attack the server.

Install denyhosts

yum -y install denyhosts

Edit the config to your preferences.

cp /etc/denyhosts.conf /etc/denyhosts.conf.orig
vim /etc/denyhosts.conf

BLOCK_SERVICE = ALL
SYNC_SERVER = http://xmlrpc.denyhosts.net:9911
SYNC_DOWNLOAD = yes

diff -U 0 /etc/denyhosts.conf.orig /etc/denyhosts.conf

--- /etc/denyhosts.conf.orig	2012-05-13 02:33:05.584566483 -0400
+++ /etc/denyhosts.conf	2012-05-13 02:34:19.386558503 -0400
@@ -96 +96 @@
-#BLOCK_SERVICE = ALL
+BLOCK_SERVICE = ALL
@@ -98 +98 @@
-BLOCK_SERVICE  = sshd
+#BLOCK_SERVICE  = sshd
@@ -547 +547 @@
-#SYNC_SERVER = http://xmlrpc.denyhosts.net:9911
+SYNC_SERVER = http://xmlrpc.denyhosts.net:9911
@@ -582 +582 @@
-#SYNC_DOWNLOAD = yes
+SYNC_DOWNLOAD = yes

White-list any trusted machines, including localhost.

cp /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.allow.orig
vim /etc/hosts.allow

127.0.0.1
206.108.5.162

diff -U 0 /etc/hosts.allow.orig /etc/hosts.allow

--- /etc/hosts.allow.orig	2012-05-13 02:36:02.613767847 -0400
+++ /etc/hosts.allow	2012-05-13 02:40:37.473523845 -0400
@@ -10,0 +11,2 @@
+127.0.0.1
+206.108.5.162

Start the service.

chkconfig denyhosts on
/etc/init.d/denyhosts start

Starting denyhosts:                                        [  OK  ]

Additional software to install

To view neatly-summarized daily logs, and system resource usage.

yum -y install logwatch htop

Packages for web server and wiki install.

yum install httpd httpd-tools postgresql94-server postgresql94-plperl postgresql94-contrib postgresql94 mysql-server telnet mod_ssl mysql-server php-mysql gcc jwhois bind \
            acpid bind-utils syslinux screen man bzip2 zip unzip php-pgsql php yum-utils policycoreutils-python rsync
chkconfig acpid on

Packages that are currently needed for personal stuff.

yum install perl-XML-Simple perl-MIME-Lite perl-DBD-MySQL perl-DBD-Pg perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 mod_auth_pgsql perl-Digest-SHA perl-CGI perl-Time-HiRes

Apache

Apache is configured first with a global configuration, which also defines the "default" website which is shown when the server is called by it's IP address (or by a domain that is not configured). Then with per-domain configurations known as "virtual host containers".

First, the global configuration and default domain. We will put our default website in /var/www/default/. So the first step is to create the needed directories.

mkdir -p /var/www/default/{html,cgi-bin,logs}
chown -R apache:apache /var/www

Now to edit the configuration file.

cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Note: This needs to be explained.

Make the following changes.

diff -U 0 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

--- /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig	2012-05-13 19:32:07.718570148 -0400
+++ /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf	2012-05-13 21:48:18.439736244 -0400
@@ -103,6 +103,6 @@
-StartServers       8
-MinSpareServers    5
-MaxSpareServers   20
-ServerLimit      256
-MaxClients       256
-MaxRequestsPerChild  4000
+StartServers      16
+MinSpareServers   10
+MaxSpareServers   40
+ServerLimit      512
+MaxClients       512
+MaxRequestsPerChild  8000
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@
-StartServers         4
-MaxClients         300
-MinSpareThreads     25
-MaxSpareThreads     75 
-ThreadsPerChild     25
+StartServers         8
+MaxClients         600
+MinSpareThreads     50
+MaxSpareThreads    150 
+ThreadsPerChild     50
@@ -262 +262 @@
-ServerAdmin root@localhost
+ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca
@@ -276,0 +277 @@
+ServerName omiya.alteeve.ca:80
@@ -292 +293 @@
-DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
+DocumentRoot "/var/www/default/html"
@@ -317 +318 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/html">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/html">
@@ -551 +552 @@
-Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
+Alias /icons/ "/var/www/default/icons/"
@@ -553 +554 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/icons">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/icons">
@@ -576 +577 @@
-ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
+ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/default/cgi-bin/"
@@ -582 +583 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/cgi-bin">
@@ -855 +856 @@
-Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"
+Alias /error/ "/var/www/default/error/"
@@ -859 +860 @@
-    <Directory "/var/www/error">
+    <Directory "/var/www/default/error">
@@ -990 +991 @@
-#NameVirtualHost *:80
+NameVirtualHost *:80
@@ -1004,5 +1005,5 @@
-#    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
-#    DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
-#    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
-#    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
-#    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
+#    ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca
+#    DocumentRoot /var/www/default/html
+#    ServerName unknown.alteeve.ca
+#    ErrorLog /var/www/default/logs/error.log
+#    CustomLog /var/www/default/logs/access.log common
@@ -1009,0 +1011 @@
+

After all changes, use this to make sure there are no syntax errors.

apachectl -t

[Sun May 13 21:48:11 2012] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
Syntax OK

Note that the [Sun May 13 21:48:11 2012] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts is expected at this stage as we've not yet configured any virtual hosts.

All virtual host configuration files need to be created in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory and the file must have the .conf suffix in order to be read by apache. These files will be read in order, so if you want to ensure that one file is read before another, as we will do shortly, you can prefix the configuration file with an integer to ensure read order.

I like to redirect all unknown server requests to http://unknown.alteeve.ca. For this, I will create an initial configuration file called 00_default.conf.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca
        DocumentRoot /var/www/default/html
        ServerName unknown.alteeve.ca
        ErrorLog /var/www/default/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /var/www/default/logs/access.log common
</VirtualHost>

Now we will do two kinds of checks; One for syntax and one to check the configuration of virtual host containers.

apachectl -t

Syntax OK

We no longer see the warning from before as we now have our first virtual host configured.

apachectl -S

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
_default_:443          omiya.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:74)
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
Syntax OK

We can now start the web server for the first time.

/etc/init.d/httpd start

Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

Perfect! Time to configure some real domains.

Common Virtual Host Configurations

All domains on this server will be housed under either:

• /var/www/domain.tld/{cgi-bin,html,logs,temp}

Or, for SSL encrypted domains;

• /var/www/ssl_domain.tld/{cgi-bin,html,logs,temp}

The four directories found under the domain are used for hosting executable scripts (cgi-bin), standard HTML websites or websites with in-line code like PHP (html), log files (logs) and an optional temporary directory used for staging files (temp).

Standard Virtual Hosts

This section covers the configuration on standard virtual host containers (using TCP port 80).

In this example, we will setup the domain http://mizu-bu.org.

First, create the directories for the domain's files.

mkdir -p /var/www/mizu-bu.org/{cgi-bin,html,logs,temp}

Now create the virtual host container's configuration file. Note that in this example, it is a MediaWiki website, so we will tell apache to look for index.php files by default.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/mizu-bu.org.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin digimer@alteeve.ca

	ServerName mizu-bu.org
        ServerAlias www.mizu-bu.org

	DirectoryIndex index.html
    	
	DocumentRoot /var/www/mizu-bu.org/html/
	<Directory /var/www/mizu-bu.org/html>
		Options +Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride Options
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/mizu-bu.org/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/var/www/mizu-bu.org/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/www/mizu-bu.org/logs/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel debug

	CustomLog /var/www/mizu-bu.org/logs/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

As before, test the syntax and virtual host configurations.

apachectl -S

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
_default_:443          omiya.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:74)
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost mizu-bu.org (/etc/httpd/conf.d/mizu-bu.org.conf:1)
Syntax OK

SSL Virtual Hosts

SSL provides for secure client to server communications.

Per-Domain SSL Cert

This covers setting up an SSL certificate for one domain only.

Per-Domain SS - Creating The Signed Certificate

This section assumes you are using a 3rd party signing authority. Specifically, I use http://www.trustico.ca/ (resellers of http://RapidSSL.com and others). This is also for a domain-specific certificate. Wildcard certificates will differ.

First, create 2048bit private key. Note that this will require a pass-phrase, which you will need to enter whenever the Apache daemon httpd daemon starts. If you do not want this, remove the -des3 switch.

cd /etc/pki/CA/private/
openssl genrsa -des3 -out /etc/pki/CA/private/alteeve.ca.key 2048

Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus
..................................+++
.............................................................+++
e is 65537 (0x10001)
Enter pass phrase for /etc/pki/CA/private/alteeve.ca.key:
Verifying - Enter pass phrase for /etc/pki/CA/private/alteeve.ca.key:

Now create a CSR (Certificate signing request) which we will send to the signing authority. Do not enter anything in the extra section below.

Note: The Common Name must be the fully qualified domain name. In this example, I want to create a certificate for the domain https://alteeve.ca, so I will enter alteeve.ca. If you prefer to use a www. prefix, include it. I will rewrite requests using the www. prefix to not use it.

openssl req -new -key /etc/pki/CA/private/alteeve.ca.key -out alteeve.ca.csr

Enter pass phrase for /etc/pki/CA/private/alteeve.ca.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]:CA
State or Province Name (full name) []:Ontario
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:Oakville
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:Alteeve's Niche
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:alteeve.ca
Email Address []:admin@alteeve.ca     

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:

Test that the CSR file is ok.

openssl req -noout -text -in /etc/pki/CA/alteeve.ca.csr

Certificate Request:
    Data:
        Version: 0 (0x0)
        Subject: C=CA, ST=Ontario, L=Oakville, O=Alteeve's Niche, OU=IT, CN=alteeve.ca/emailAddress=admin@alteeve.ca
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
                Public-Key: (2048 bit)
                Modulus:
                    ...
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        Attributes:
            a0:00
    Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
        ...

Copy the exact contents of the alteeve.ca.csr file and provide it to your signing authority as per their instructions. Once you complete their CSR form, they should email you a signed certificate and an intermediary certificate. At this point, the CSR file is no longer needed.

Save the signed certificate:

vim /etc/pki/CA/ssl_alteeve.ca.crt

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Save the intermediary certificate. Change the certificate name to that of your provider. If they provide you with this file, simply save it in the /etc/pki/CA/ directory.

vim /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Wildcard SSL Certificate

These certs work for any *.example.com domain.

Wildcard SSL - Creating The Signed Certificate

This section assumes you are using a 3rd party signing authority. Specifically, I use http://www.trustico.ca/ (resellers of http://RapidSSL.com and others). This is also for a domain-specific certificate. Wildcard certificates will differ.

Unlike the per-domain SSL certificate, this one will not require a pass-phrase to decrypt.

First, create 2048bit private key.

cd /etc/pki/CA/private/
openssl genrsa -out /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key 2048

Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus
..<snip>..+++
..<snip>..+++
e is 65537 (0x10001)

Verify it was created:

ls -lah /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 26 15:40 /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key

Now create a CSR (Certificate signing request) which we will send to the signing authority. Do not enter anything in the extra section below.

Note: The Common Name must be the short, fully qualified domain name with a leading *. to make it a wildcard. In this example, I want to create a certificate domains under alteeve.ca, so I will enter *.alteeve.ca.

openssl req -new -key /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key -out wildcard_alteeve.ca.csr

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]:CA
State or Province Name (full name) []:Ontario
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:Toronto
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:Alteeve's Niche! Inc.
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:*.alteeve.ca
Email Address []:admin@alteeve.ca

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:

Check that it was generated.

ls -lah /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.csr

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Feb 26 16:19 /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.csr

Test that the CSR file is ok.

openssl req -noout -text -in /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.csr

Certificate Request:
    Data:
        Version: 0 (0x0)
        Subject: C=CA, ST=Ontario, L=Toronto, O=Alteeve's Niche! Inc., OU=IT, CN=*.alteeve.ca/emailAddress=admin@alteeve.ca
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
                Public-Key: (2048 bit)
                Modulus:
                    ...
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        Attributes:
            a0:00
    Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
         ...

Copy the exact contents of the wildcard_alteeve.ca.csr file and provide it to your signing authority as per their instructions. Once you complete their CSR form, they should email you a signed certificate and an intermediary certificate. At this point, the CSR file is no longer needed.

Save the signed certificate:

vim /etc/pki/CA/wildcard_ssl_alteeve.ca.crt

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Save the intermediary certificate. Change the certificate name to that of your provider. If they provide you with this file, simply save it in the /etc/pki/CA/ directory.

vim /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Copying Wildcard to a new Server

When you are setting up a new server to use an existing wildcard cert, you simply need to copy over four files:

rsync -av root@alteeve.ca:/etc/pki/CA/wildcard_ssl_alteeve.ca.crt /etc/pki/CA/
rsync -av root@alteeve.ca:/etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca* /etc/pki/CA/private/
rsync -av root@alteeve.ca:/etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem /etc/pki/CA/

Once copied, setup the SSL virtual host the same as always.

Change ssl.conf

If you forget to update /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf, you will get an error like this;

apachectl -t

[Mon Feb 25 19:50:32 2013] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
Syntax OK

To avoid this, edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and change <VirtualHost _default_:443> to <VirtualHost _default_:80>.

Creating An SSL Virtual Host

Create a new virtual host container for the new SSL protected virtual host. We will leave the normal unencrypted virtual-host alone for now. Once we're done, we'll use it to capture and redirect http:// requests to their https:// equivalents. I make my virtual host directories writeable by my normal user account. Feel free to adapt this to your preferences.

Setup the directories and then create a trivial index.html file.

mkdir ssl_alteeve.ca/{cgi-bin,html,logs,temp} -p
chown apache:digimer ssl_alteeve.ca -R
chmod g+w ssl_alteeve.ca -R
vim /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html/index.html

<head>
        <title>AN!Wiki - SSL Test Server</title>
</head>
<body>
        <h1>SSL Test</h1>
</body>

Now setup the Apache2 config. I like to use the ssl_ prefix for encrypted domains.

Note: This example is for a MediaWiki virtual host with short URLs configured. You will want to adapt the values to suit your needs.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_alteeve.ca.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin digimer@alteeve.ca

        ServerName alteeve.ca

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

        # We can haz security?
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all
        SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/wildcard_ssl_alteeve.ca.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key

        DocumentRoot /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html/
        Alias /w /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html/index.php
        <Directory /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html>
                Options +Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/logs/error.log
        TransferLog /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/logs/transfer.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel debug

        CustomLog /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/logs/access.log combined
        ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Bad Identity Error

If you get an error about the server not providing identity information, you may have be loading images, CSS, javascript or similar using a URL from a remote domain with no SSL or badly configured SSL.

For example, on Firefox 4, you may see:

This web site does not supply identity information.

Your connection to this site is only partially encrypted, and does not prevent eavesdropping.
                                                                        [ More Information ]

In my case, this turned out to be a problem where mediawiki was loading a Creative Commons logo from their server using http:// link to the icon. Once this was changed to https:// (in LocalSettings.php), the error went away.

Testing and Using the New Configuration

Test your new Apache configuration.

apachectl -t

Syntax OK

Now restart Apache. Note that you will be asked to enter the pass-phrase you used when you created your private key.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd: Apache/2.2.15 mod_ssl/2.2.15 (Pass Phrase Dialog)
Some of your private key files are encrypted for security reasons.
In order to read them you have to provide the pass phrases.

Server alteeve.ca:443 (RSA)
Enter pass phrase:

OK: Pass Phrase Dialog successful.
                                                           [  OK  ]

Warning: From now on, you will need to enter the pass-phrase to start Apache. Consider this when restarting your server and when deciding if you want the Apache server to start with your server. As my server is in a VM and it's underlying disk is also encrypted, I will enable it at boot time. I'll need to be watching the boot process anyway. This may not apply to you.

Now make sure that you can still connect to your server on TCP port 80 (normal http port). The contents after the GET request will obviously vary depending on your configuration:

telnet localhost 80

Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET
<head>
	<title>Asakusa.alteeve.ca</title>
</head>
<body>
	Default - Requested domain not found
</body>
Connection closed by foreign host.

Now to check that the SSL port is listening properly. We can't use telnet because of the SSL encryption. Instead we will use openssl.

openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -state -debug

CONNECTED(00000003)
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
write to 0x196a050 [0x1a0b3a0] (113 bytes => 113 (0x71))
0000 - 16 03 01 00 6c 01 00 00-68 03 01 4d f8 f4 a4 f9   ....l...h..M....
0010 - 07 b3 11 f8 3d ff 5d 80-ed 69 87 52 e2 60 80 57   ....=.]..i.R.`.W
0020 - 59 c7 83 4c ea 5b e5 37-06 e0 13 00 00 3a 00 39   Y..L.[.7.....:.9
0030 - 00 38 00 88 00 87 00 35-00 84 00 16 00 13 00 0a   .8.....5........
0040 - 00 33 00 32 00 9a 00 99-00 45 00 44 00 2f 00 96   .3.2.....E.D./..
0050 - 00 41 00 05 00 04 00 15-00 12 00 09 00 14 00 11   .A..............
0060 - 00 08 00 06 00 03 00 ff-02 01 00 00 04 00 23      ..............#
0071 - <SPACES/NULS>
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10900] (7 bytes => 7 (0x7))
0000 - 16 03 01 00 35 02                                 ....5.
0007 - <SPACES/NULS>
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a1090a] (51 bytes => 51 (0x33))
0000 - 00 31 03 01 4d f8 f4 a4-7d 35 00 74 24 43 bc c9   .1..M...}5.t$C..
0010 - 84 5d fe e3 90 1a e8 14-39 a1 b1 7e e8 19 c7 9f   .]......9..~....
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10903] (5 bytes => 5 (0x5))
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read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10908] (3116 bytes => 3116 (0xC2C))
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depth=3 C = US, O = Equifax, OU = Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
verify return:1
depth=2 C = US, O = GeoTrust Inc., CN = GeoTrust Global CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = "GeoTrust, Inc.", CN = RapidSSL CA
verify return:1
depth=0 serialNumber = 0TS5WzauQRJ7sc2b-hTGwK1yxSfEDphF, C = CA, O = alteeve.ca, OU = GT13908817, OU = See www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c)11, OU = Domain Control Validated - FreeSSL, CN = alteeve.ca
verify return:1
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10903] (5 bytes => 5 (0x5))
0000 - 16 03 01 02 0d                                    .....
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10908] (525 bytes => 525 (0x20D))
0000 - 0c 00 02 09 00 80 d6 7d-e4 40 cb bb dc 19 36 d6   .......}.@....6.
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0020 - 74 cb 98 bc e9 51 84 9f-91 2e 63 9c 72 fb 13 b4   t....Q....c.r...
0030 - b4 d7 17 7e 16 d5 5a c1-79 ba 42 0b 2a 29 fe 32   ...~..Z.y.B.*).2
0040 - 4a 46 7a 63 5e 81 ff 59-01 37 7b ed dc fd 33 16   JFzc^..Y.7{...3.
0050 - 8a 46 1a ad 3b 72 da e8-86 00 78 04 5b 07 a7 db   .F..;r....x.[...
0060 - ca 78 74 08 7d 15 10 ea-9f cc 9d dd 33 05 07 dd   .xt.}.......3...
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01a0 - ec 33 e8 fb 58 c8 74 13-ff dd 40 b7 35 56 63 03   .3..X.t...@.5Vc.
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server key exchange A
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0000 - 16 03 01 00 04                                    .....
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10908] (4 bytes => 4 (0x4))
0000 - 0e                                                .
0004 - <SPACES/NULS>
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
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0030 - 1f 74 d1 27 02                                    .t.'.
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server session ticket A
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0000 - 14 03 01 00 01                                    .....
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10908] (1 bytes => 1 (0x1))
0000 - 01                                                .
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10903] (5 bytes => 5 (0x5))
0000 - 16 03 01 00 30                                    ....0
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10908] (48 bytes => 48 (0x30))
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SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/serialNumber=0TS5WzauQRJ7sc2b-hTGwK1yxSfEDphF/C=CA/O=alteeve.ca/OU=GT13908817/OU=See www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c)11/OU=Domain Control Validated - FreeSSL/CN=alteeve.ca
   i:/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=RapidSSL CA
 1 s:/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=RapidSSL CA
   i:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
 2 s:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
   i:/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEvjCCA6agAwIBAgIDAhUkMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMDwxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVT
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subject=/serialNumber=0TS5WzauQRJ7sc2b-hTGwK1yxSfEDphF/C=CA/O=alteeve.ca/OU=GT13908817/OU=See www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c)11/OU=Domain Control Validated - FreeSSL/CN=alteeve.ca
issuer=/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=RapidSSL CA
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 3984 bytes and written 311 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: zlib compression
Expansion: zlib compression
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1
    Cipher    : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
    Session-ID: 2880725EB8BDD73F469C17BCA54DF373DFE8EDE3D52A1C8F5E0A5919694FB111
    Session-ID-ctx: 
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    Key-Arg   : None
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    PSK identity: None
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    Compression: 1 (zlib compression)
    Start Time: 1308161188
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
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---
GET
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0010 - 93 b5 78 6b 5f 0e c5 a2-39 2a f9 7a 20 7d 68 85   ..xk_...9*.z }h.
0020 - af 52 e3 5f fc 17 03 01-00 20 c6 c4 19 74 61 64   .R._..... ...tad
0030 - 42 59 e0 52 3f 42 44 53-8b c9 40 69 1c 3d 9b 7f   BY.R?BDS..@i.=..
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0010 - 19 73 eb 51 18 45 54 49-74 43 e0 92 1b f8 af f0   .s.Q.ETItC......
0020 - 0d e1 08 79 96 38 e1 5e-29 9d 66 9c 30 04 8e c4   ...y.8.^).f.0...
0030 - 10 83 49 7e 09 d7 8a ff-4b 11 f9 13 3e ac 77 73   ..I~....K...>.ws
0040 - e8 94 e3 f3 74 db 4e 5f-67 13 1d c4 3a 06 98 b3   ....t.N_g...:...
0050 - da 20 41 3c ca 9a fb 3f-f3 d7 64 a1 e9 f4 0a 98   . A<...?..d.....
<head>
	<title>AN!Wiki - SSL Test Server</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>SSL Test</h1>
</body>
read from 0x196a050 [0x1a10903] (5 bytes => 5 (0x5))
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0005 - <SPACES/NULS>
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0000 - 2e bb a7 d6 dc ce 6c 34-dc 2e 43 c7 89 02 a9 5c   ......l4..C....\
0010 - 3b 3e d0 43 1c ec fa c7-89 48 fd 76 58 82 ef 45   ;>.C.....H.vX..E
SSL3 alert read:warning:close notify
closed
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0000 - 15 03 01 00 20 d8 6f 46-24 e9 fa 0c c9 9f aa 2d   .... .oF$......-
0010 - db 69 2a d8 fb 61 66 b0-23 23 f9 a4 ac 49 b7 e6   .i*..af.##...I..
0020 - 31 73 56 05 ed                                    1sV..
SSL3 alert write:warning:close notify

Perfect!

Open Port 443 On The Firewall

At this point, if you try to connect to the SSL virtual host remotely, you will fail because port 443 is not yet open.

Use your favourite program to open inbound TCP port 443. I like to directly edit the firewall's config.

vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables

# Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT

/etc/init.d/iptables restart

iptables: Flushing firewall rules:                         [  OK  ]
iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter          [  OK  ]
iptables: Unloading modules:                               [  OK  ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules:                         [  OK  ]

Browse to the New Virtual Host

You should now be able to access the new SSL virtual host! Simply browse to https://alteeve.ca (replace with your domain).

Test SSL virtual host in Firefox 4.

Note the 'alteeve.ca' to the left of the address bar showing that the site is encrypted and verified!

Common apachectl -t Configuration Problems

httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for <domain>

Make sure that the hostname for the server resolves to an IP address. This is done by ensuring that the name returned by hostname has a DNS entry or has an entry in the /etc/hosts file.

[warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

This will be shown when no virtual host containers have been configured ye.

PostgreSQL

We need to initialize the postgres core databases before we can start it for the first time.

/etc/init.d/postgresql-9.4 initdb

Initializing database:                                     [  OK  ]

From now on, we can start PostgreSQL normally.

/etc/init.d/postgresql-9.4 restart

Stopping postgresql-9.4 service:                           [  OK  ]
Starting postgresql-9.4 service:                           [  OK  ]

Create the admin user called alteeve which will own the databases we will create and use.

su - postgres
createuser -S -d -R alteeve
psql template1

At the shell, run the following:

Note: If your password has a single-quote in it, escape it with (ie: ALTER USER alteeve WITH PASSWORD 'someones secret password';).

ALTER USER alteeve WITH PASSWORD 'secret';

ALTER ROLE

\q

Tell PostgreSQL to require a password for all local and incoming connections. Also enable access to the database from the local network.

vim /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/pg_hba.conf

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
host    all         all         10.222.0.0/16         md5

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               md5

Reload PostgreSQL's configuration.

/etc/init.d/postgresql-9.4 reload

Now create a Database that is owned by the alteeve user, then connect to it to make sure we're asked for a password.

su postgres -c "createdb an_wiki -O alteeve"
psql an_wiki -U alteeve

Password for user alteeve: 
psql (9.4.1)
Type "help" for help.

an_wiki=>

Now load a database from a backup file.

psql an_wiki -U alteeve -f /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/temp/an_wiki_3.out

Password for user alteeve:

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psql:/root/an_wiki_2.out:145782: WARNING:  no privileges could be revoked for "public"
REVOKE
psql:/root/an_wiki_2.out:145783: WARNING:  no privileges could be revoked for "public"
REVOKE
psql:/root/an_wiki_2.out:145784: WARNING:  no privileges were granted for "public"
GRANT
psql:/root/an_wiki_2.out:145785: WARNING:  no privileges were granted for "public"
GRANT

Voila!

Media Wiki Problem

If you moved a MediaWiki DB and it generated an error like this in the log file:

[Wed Jun 15 21:37:20 2011] [error] [client 206.108.5.162] PHP Warning:  pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR:  relation "objectcache" does not exist\nLINE 1: ...ECT /* SqlBagOStuff::get  */  value,exptime  FROM objectcach...\n
                                                             ^ in /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html/includes/db/DatabasePostgres.php on line 584
[Wed Jun 15 21:37:20 2011] [error] [client 206.108.5.162] PHP Warning:  pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR:  relation "l10n_cache" does not exist\nLINE 1: ... LCStore_DB::get 206.108.5.162 */  lc_value  FROM l10n_cache...\n
                                                             ^ in /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/html/includes/db/DatabasePostgres.php on line 584

The fix is to run:

ALTER DATABASE an_wiki SET search_path=mediawiki;

Of course, replace an_wiki with the name of your wiki database.

MySQL

Start MySQL for the first time:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

Initializing MySQL database:  Installing MySQL system tables...
OK
Filling help tables...
OK

To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy
support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h asakusa.alteeve.ca password 'new-password'

Alternatively you can run:
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

which will also give you the option of removing the test
databases and anonymous user created by default.  This is
strongly recommended for production servers.

See the manual for more instructions.

You can start the MySQL daemon with:
cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &

You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl
cd /usr/mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl

Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script!

                                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]

Secure the server.

mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
      SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE!  PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!


In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user.  If you've just installed MySQL, 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 MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.

Set root password? [Y/n] y
New password: 
Re-enter new password: 
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
 ... Success!


By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL 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] y
 ... 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]  
 ... Success!

By default, MySQL 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] 
 - 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] 
 ... Success!

Cleaning up...



All done!  If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.

Thanks for using MySQL!

BIND

Note: This is not meant to cover creating the actual zone files for DNS. It's goal is to setup BIND on your EL6 server only.

This is the BIND named server that handles DNS resolution. It will be setup in two parts; The global options and then the zones file.

Install bind

yum install bind bind-libs bind-utils

Global Configuration

Edit the main configuration file, making a backup first.

cp /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf.orig
vim /etc/named.conf

Enable queries on any interface and answer queries for any domain, not just ours. Edit or add the following;

        listen-on port 53       { any; };
        allow-query             { any; };
        allow-query-cache       { any; };

For now, we're going to disable DNSSEC. Make the following changes;

        dnssec-enable           no;
        dnssec-validation       no;

Now tell bind where to look for a domain name's IP when we don't know. Add;

        forwarders {
                // These are Google's open DNS servers
                8.8.8.8;
                8.8.4.4;
        };

This server will have a slave, and we want to notify that slave when a record changes. Add;

        notify                  yes;

Done. I like to clean up the file to put the variables in line with one another. With this in mind, let's look at the changes as a unified diff;

diff -u /etc/named.conf.orig /etc/named.conf

--- /etc/named.conf.orig	2012-02-05 00:54:48.434068501 -0500
+++ /etc/named.conf	2012-02-05 13:45:16.484083319 -0500
@@ -8,18 +8,26 @@
 //
 
 options {
-	listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
-	listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
-	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     { localhost; };
-	recursion yes;
-
-	dnssec-enable yes;
-	dnssec-validation yes;
-	dnssec-lookaside auto;
+	listen-on port		53 { any; };
+	listen-on-v6 port	53 { ::1; };
+	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-query-cache 	{ any; };
+	recursion 		yes;
+	notify			yes;
+
+	dnssec-enable		no;
+	dnssec-validation	no;
+	dnssec-lookaside	auto;
+
+	forwarders {
+		// These are Google's open DNS servers
+		8.8.8.8;
+		8.8.4.4;
+	};
 
 	/* Path to ISC DLV key */
 	bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";

Setting Up rndc

This ensures that we're transferring zone data between the real master and slave servers.

Note: This will take a long time to finish. Please be patient!

rndc-confgen -a

Eventually, this will be returned;

wrote key file "/etc/rndc.key"

Now make sure everything is owned by named:named.

chown named:named /etc/rndc.key 
chown -R named:named /etc/named

Now copy the rndc.key to the other node:

rsync -av /etc/rndc.key root@ns2.alteeve.ca:/etc/

root@ns2.alteeve.ca's password: 
sending incremental file list

sent 49 bytes  received 15 bytes  11.64 bytes/sec
total size is 77  speedup is 1.20

Done.

Adding Zones

This is where we tell BIND which zones we have SOA for. This includes the pointers to the actual files on disk with each domain's information.

Backup then edit the zones file.

cp /etc/named.rfc1912.zones /etc/named.rfc1912.zones.orig
vim /etc/named.rfc1912.zones

On the master server:

In here is where we add the entries for the domains we have SOA for at the end of the file. These will differ for every install, so only two examples will be shown.

// Our zones which this server is SOA for.

zone "digimer.ca" in {
	type master;
	file "/etc/named/db.digimer.ca";
	allow-transfer {
		65.39.153.67;
		10.255.5.4;
		10.222.1.4;
	};
};

On the slave server:

// Our zones which this server is SOA for.

zone "digimer.ca" in {
	type slave;
	file "/etc/named/bak.digimer.ca";
	masters {
		65.39.153.66;
		10.255.5.3;
		10.222.1.3;
	};
};

This tutorial does not aim to cover actual zone files, but here is one for reference:

cat /etc/named/db.digimer.ca

$ORIGIN .
$TTL 600	; Time To Live.
digimer.ca		IN SOA ns1.alteeve.ca. admin.alteeve.ca. (
				2013022106	;	Serial Number (yyyymmdd##)
				300		;	refresh (in seconds)
				180		;	retry (in seconds)
				300		;	expire (in seconds)
				300		;	minimum (in seconds)
				)
			NS	ns1.alteeve.ca.
			NS	ns2.alteeve.ca.
			A	65.39.153.65
			MX	10	mail.digimer.ca.
$ORIGIN digimer.ca.
localhost		A	127.0.0.1
mail			A	64.34.141.3
www			CNAME	digimer.ca.

Start the named daemon on the master node;

/etc/init.d/named start

Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]

In syslog, you should see something like this;

Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: starting BIND 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.6 -u named
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: built with '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-libtool' '--localstatedir=/var' '--enable-threads' '--enable-ipv6' '--with-pic' '--disable-static' '--disable-openssl-version-check' '--with-dlz-ldap=yes' '--with-dlz-postgres=yes' '--with-dlz-mysql=yes' '--with-dlz-filesystem=yes' '--with-gssapi=yes' '--disable-isc-spnego' '--with-docbook-xsl=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets' '--enable-fixed-rrset' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS= -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' 'CPPFLAGS= -DDIG_SIGCHASE'
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: ----------------------------------------------------
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: BIND 9 is maintained by Internet Systems Consortium,
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: Inc. (ISC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) public-benefit 
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: corporation.  Support and training for BIND 9 are 
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: available at https://www.isc.org/support
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: ----------------------------------------------------
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: adjusted limit on open files from 4096 to 1048576
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: using up to 4096 sockets
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: reading built-in trusted keys from file '/etc/named.iscdlv.key'
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535]
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535]
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 65.39.153.66#53
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:0, 10.255.5.3#53
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:1, 10.222.1.3#53
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: listening on IPv6 interface lo, ::1#53
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: generating session key for dynamic DNS
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: sizing zone task pool based on 7 zones
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: using built-in DLV key for view _default
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: set up managed keys zone for view _default, file '/var/named/dynamic/managed-keys.bind'
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: Warning: 'empty-zones-enable/disable-empty-zone' not set: disabling RFC 1918 empty zones
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 100.51.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 113.0.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: D.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: automatic empty zone: 8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone digimer.ca/IN: loaded serial 2013022106
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: managed-keys-zone ./IN: loaded serial 3
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: zone digimer.ca/IN: sending notifies (serial 2013022106)
Feb 23 18:21:46 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: running

You can test that it's working by querying one of your zones.

dig digimer.ca @localhost

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.6 <<>> digimer.ca @localhost
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18362
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;digimer.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
digimer.ca.		600	IN	A	65.39.153.65

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
digimer.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns1.alteeve.ca.
digimer.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns2.alteeve.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.alteeve.ca.		268	IN	A	78.46.37.135

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 23 18:27:04 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104

Now start named on the slave. First though, check /etc/named/ to see that there are no files there yet.

ls -lah /etc/named/

total 8.0K
drwxr-x---   2 named named 4.0K Dec  6 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x. 66 root  root  4.0K Feb 23 18:13 ..

Now start named;

/etc/init.d/named start

Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]

In syslog on the slave, you will see something like;

Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: starting BIND 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.6 -u named
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: built with '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-libtool' '--localstatedir=/var' '--enable-threads' '--enable-ipv6' '--with-pic' '--disable-static' '--disable-openssl-version-check' '--with-dlz-ldap=yes' '--with-dlz-postgres=yes' '--with-dlz-mysql=yes' '--with-dlz-filesystem=yes' '--with-gssapi=yes' '--disable-isc-spnego' '--with-docbook-xsl=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets' '--enable-fixed-rrset' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS= -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' 'CPPFLAGS= -DDIG_SIGCHASE'
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: ----------------------------------------------------
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: BIND 9 is maintained by Internet Systems Consortium,
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: Inc. (ISC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) public-benefit 
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: corporation.  Support and training for BIND 9 are 
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: available at https://www.isc.org/support
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: ----------------------------------------------------
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: adjusted limit on open files from 4096 to 1048576
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: using up to 4096 sockets
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: reading built-in trusted keys from file '/etc/named.iscdlv.key'
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535]
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535]
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 65.39.153.67#53
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:0, 10.255.5.4#53
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:1, 10.222.1.4#53
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: listening on IPv6 interface lo, ::1#53
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: generating session key for dynamic DNS
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: sizing zone task pool based on 7 zones
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: using built-in DLV key for view _default
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: set up managed keys zone for view _default, file '/var/named/dynamic/managed-keys.bind'
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: Warning: 'empty-zones-enable/disable-empty-zone' not set: disabling RFC 1918 empty zones
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 100.51.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 113.0.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: D.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: automatic empty zone: 8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: managed-keys-zone ./IN: loaded serial 0
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: running
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone digimer.ca/IN: Transfer started.
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: transfer of 'digimer.ca/IN' from 65.39.153.66#53: connected using 65.39.153.67#47099
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: zone digimer.ca/IN: transferred serial 2013022106
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm04-dns02 named[2072]: transfer of 'digimer.ca/IN' from 65.39.153.66#53: Transfer completed: 1 messages, 9 records, 247 bytes, 0.001 secs (247000 bytes/sec)

If you look in syslog on the master, you will see that the digimer.ca domain was transferred;

Feb 23 18:29:28 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: client 65.39.153.67#47099: transfer of 'digimer.ca/IN': AXFR started
Feb 23 18:29:28 vm03-dns01 named[2126]: client 65.39.153.67#47099: transfer of 'digimer.ca/IN': AXFR ended

Indeed, you will now see that the /etc/named/bak.digimer.ca file was created.

ls -lah /etc/named/

total 12K
drwxr-x---   2 named named 4.0K Feb 23 18:29 .
drwxr-xr-x. 66 root  root  4.0K Feb 23 18:13 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 named named  438 Feb 23 18:29 bak.digimer.ca

We can confirm that it's working by querying the slave;

dig digimer.ca @localhost

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.6 <<>> digimer.ca @localhost
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15602
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;digimer.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
digimer.ca.		600	IN	A	65.39.153.65

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
digimer.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns1.alteeve.ca.
digimer.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns2.alteeve.ca.

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 23 18:32:52 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 88

Excellent! Now you can add more DNS servers to the master server.

Adding a Firewall Entry

Assuming you have a firewall running, be sure to add an entry for TCP port 53.

(Re)Start BIND

Once all the configuration files and domain zone files are in place, (re)start the named service.

/etc/init.d/named restart

Stopping named: .                                          [  OK  ]
Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]

Testing Name resolution

To properly test name resolution, you will want to resolve a domain we are SOA for and another domain which we are not. We will repeat this twice, once on the server and once from a remote machine to ensure that it is answering remote queries. Note that in the examples below, my DNS server's IP address is 78.46.37.135.

On the server;

Query alteeve.ca, which we're SOA for.

dig alteeve.ca @localhost

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3-RedHat-9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.2 <<>> alteeve.ca @localhost
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1418
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;alteeve.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	A	192.139.81.121

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns1.alteeve.ca.
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns2.alteeve.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.alteeve.ca.	600	IN	A	192.139.81.117
ns2.alteeve.ca.	600	IN	A	192.139.81.119

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb  5 13:57:11 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113

Now query google.ca which we obviously are not SOA for.

dig google.ca @localhost

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3-RedHat-9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.2 <<>> google.ca @localhost
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56760
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.ca.		300	IN	A	74.125.232.56

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.			2967	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
.			2967	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 12 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb  5 14:02:03 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 254

Now from a remote machine, repeat the same queries to ensure that our DNS server will respond to external queries.

On the server;

Query alteeve.ca, which we're SOA for.

dig alteeve.ca @78.46.37.135

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.2.rc1.fc16 <<>> alteeve.ca @78.46.37.135
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46628
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;alteeve.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	A	192.139.81.121

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns2.alteeve.ca.
alteeve.ca.		600	IN	NS	ns1.alteeve.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.alteeve.ca.	600	IN	A	192.139.81.117
ns2.alteeve.ca.	600	IN	A	192.139.81.119

;; Query time: 138 msec
;; SERVER: 78.46.37.135#53(78.46.37.135)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb  5 14:04:09 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113

Now query google.ca which we obviously are not SOA for.

dig google.ca @78.46.37.135

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.2.rc1.fc16 <<>> google.ca @78.46.37.135
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18204
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.ca.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.ca.		138	IN	A	74.125.232.56

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.			2805	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
.			2805	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 140 msec
;; SERVER: 78.46.37.135#53(78.46.37.135)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb  5 14:04:31 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 254

Done!

Email

This is a pretty heavily customized postfix install using a custom schema. It was originally based on this Debian Etch tutorial, but adapted for PostgreSQL. Much time has passed and the operating system is now significantly changed, but it's lineage is thus. A more recent, but still Debian-focused version of the tutorial is here. I also used this tutorial to help sort out the PostgreSQL stuff.

This will use a few applications;

• Postfix - The program that receives email.
• PostgreSQL - The database used to validate the existence of email accounts and validates incoming user credentials.
• Dovecot - Takes email coming from postfix, via amavis, and records them to disk. It also answers requests from users wanting to check their email.
• Amavis - Filters incoming email for spam (via spamassassin) and virsus (via clamav)

We will also be using graylisting, which is a spam fighting tactic where the first email from a given user to one of our users is bounced for a few minutes. Proper mail servers will acknowledge the bound, wait the time and resend. Spam mailers though are usually fire-and-forget and will not resend, thus effectively blocking the spam message. This is a very effective method of blocking spam with minimal chance of losing real mail from real users. Any subsequent message from the user would be allowed through with no delay, provided the user had in fact resent the first message as requested.

Install

To install the applications;

yum install postfix postfix-perl-scripts dovecot dovecot-pgsql spamassassin postgresql-server postgresql-plperl mutt

Configuring Postfix

Installation requires several steps. The AN!Console database must be loaded. Various applications need to be installed. Postfix, Dovecot and helper applications need to be configured and so on.

This tutorial uses the following values that you may need to adjust;

• Database name; an_tools
• Database user; alteeve
• Database password; secret
• Database host; 127.0.0.1

Note: Do not use the database host "localhost" unless you are certain you can connect to the DB using a standard unix socket.

Building Support for PostgreSQL

Warning: We need to build our own RPM in order to support postgresql. This means we will have to disable postfix from future updates, placing the onus on us to make sure critical updates are applied. This will require downloading the latest source RPMs, re-enabling postgres and recompile/reinstall.

Add the source RPM repository by adding the following;

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

# Source RPM repository
[base-source]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base - Source
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/Source/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

Now download the source RPM for postfix.

yumdownloader --source postfix

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.vieth-server.de
 * extras: centos.vieth-server.de
 * updates: centos.vieth-server.de
base                               | 3.7 kB     00:00
base-source                        | 1.9 kB     00:00
extras                             | 3.5 kB     00:00
updates                            | 3.5 kB     00:00
No source RPM found for 2:postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
./postfix-2.6.6-2.el6.src.rpm already exists and appears to be complete
nikko:/etc/postfix# rm postfix-2.6.6-2.el6.src.rpm 
rm: remove regular file `postfix-2.6.6-2.el6.src.rpm'? y
nikko:/etc/postfix# yumdownloader --source postfix
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.vieth-server.de
 * extras: centos.vieth-server.de
 * updates: centos.vieth-server.de
No source RPM found for 2:postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
postfix-2.6.6-2.el6.src.rpm        | 3.3 MB     00:00

Now that we have the postfix source RPM, we will install it.

rpm -Uvh postfix-2.6.6-2.el6.src.rpm

   1:postfix                warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root

Now edit the .spec file to enable postgres support.

cp ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec.orig
vim ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec

Make the following changes.

• Enable PostgreSQL support

%{?!PGSQL: %define PGSQL 1}

Increment the release version by one.

Release: 3%{?dist}

We can see the changes here:

diff -u ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec.orig ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec

--- /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec.orig      2012-02-11 16:54:54.495330859 -0500
+++ /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec   2012-02-11 16:53:39.873331101 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %{?!MYSQL: %define MYSQL 1}
-%{?!PGSQL: %define PGSQL 0}
+%{?!PGSQL: %define PGSQL 1}
 %define LDAP 2
 %define PCRE 1
 %define SASL 2
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 Name: postfix
 Summary: Postfix Mail Transport Agent
 Version: 2.6.6
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Epoch: 2
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
 URL: http://www.postfix.org

Now rebuild the RPM, which means we need to install the build tools.

yum groupinstall development
yum install db4-devel openldap-devel cyrus-sasl-devel pcre-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel openssl-devel
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec

(compile output)
Processing files: postfix-debuginfo-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/postfix-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/postfix-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/postfix-perl-scripts-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/postfix-debuginfo-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.rymr5C
+ umask 022
+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd postfix-2.6.6
+ rm -rf /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/postfix-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64
+ exit 0

Install the updated postfix.

rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/postfix-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64.rpm ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/postfix-perl-scripts-2.6.6-3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:postfix                ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:postfix-perl-scripts   ########################################### [100%]

Now exclude postfix from future updates.

cp /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.orig
vim /etc/yum.conf
diff -u /etc/yum.conf.orig /etc/yum.conf

--- /etc/yum.conf.orig  2012-02-11 16:59:53.720079168 -0500
+++ /etc/yum.conf       2012-02-11 17:00:47.013331283 -0500
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 installonly_limit=5
 bugtracker_url=http://bugs.centos.org/set_project.php?project_id=16&ref=http://bugs.centos.org/bug_report_page.php?category=yum
 distroverpkg=centos-release
+exclude=postfix*
 
 #  This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
 # is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to

Basic Postfix Configuration

Since we'll be using virtual domains, users, aliases and mailboxes, we'll need to start by commenting out some of the default options in Postfix. By default, Postfix is set up for small numbers of local users, and it only allows connections from the localhost. Our configuration will be more scalable, allowing many domains and users to be stored in the Postgres database.

Comment out the following:

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

# inet_interfaces = localhost
# mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost 
# alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases  
# alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

And uncomment/add these:

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

inet_interfaces = all   # allows us to connect and test from another machine
mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/32, 127.0.0.0/8  # use the IP or subnet of your test machine here
message_size_limit = 36700160 # increase max message size to 35MB to allow for ~25MB attachments

Setup Virtual Domain Lookup

This tells postfix how to find which domains we have.

vim /etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf

user = alteeve
password = secret
hosts = 127.0.0.1
dbname = an_tools
query = SELECT 1 FROM domains WHERE dom_name='%s'

Now tell Postfix to use this new file by appending the following to the main postfix configuration file.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

# Tell postfix to validate domains using our postgresql databae via the
# pgsql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains=pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf

Now reload postfix;

/etc/init.d/postfix reload

Reloading postfix:                                         [  OK  ]

Now we can test that domains resolve. In my case, I will test the look-up for alteeve.ca.

postmap -q alteeve.ca pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf

1

Now make sure it returns nothing when query a bad domain.

postmap -q example.com pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf

<nothing returned>

Setup Mailbox Mapping

This section will tell postfix which users for a given domain are valid.

vim /etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf

user = alteeve
password = secret
hosts = 127.0.0.1
dbname = an_tools
query = SELECT 1 FROM email_file WHERE email='%s'

Tell postfix to use this new file when looking up users.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

And add:

# Tell postfix which table to look in when validating a local user via their
# email address.
virtual_mailbox_maps=pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf

Reload postfix.

/etc/init.d/postfix reload

Reloading postfix:                                         [  OK  ]

Now do a test of a valid user, which should return 1, and an invalid user, which should return nothing.

postmap -q digimer@alteeve.ca pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf

1

postmap -q nobody@alteeve.ca pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf

<nothing returned>

Setup Email Forwards

This will allow for email addresses to be forwarded to other email addresses.

vim /etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-alias-maps.cf

user = alteeve
password = secret
hosts = 127.0.0.1
dbname = an_tools
query = SELECT fwd_destination FROM forwards WHERE fwd_source='%s'

Now tell postfix where to look.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Add;

# This tells postfix where to forward incoming email to, where appropriate.
virtual_alias_maps=pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-alias-maps.cf

Reload;

/etc/init.d/postfix reload

Reloading postfix:                                         [  OK  ]

I've setup a forward where digimer@alteeve.ca forwards to digimer@alteeve.ca, so we will use that for the next test.

postmap -q digimer@alteeve.ca pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-alias-maps.cf

digimer@alteeve.ca

An email address with no forward should return nothing.

postmap -q digimer@alteeve.ca pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-virtual-alias-maps.cf

<nothing returned>

Excellent.

Setup Postfix Mail Delivery via Dovecot

Define a mail transport method in the main Postfix config.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

# this option is ignored, but may be useful for reference
virtual_mailbox_base=/email

# deliver mail via dovecot
virtual_transport = dovecot

# prevent postfix from sending multiple recipients per delivery request,
# since dovecot only supports one recipient for each delivery
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1

Tell Postfix what virtual_transport "dovecot" means, and how to use it.

vim /etc/postfix/master.cf

Append this for RHEL/CentOS 6 machines. For other distros, make sure that /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver exists and change the path if necessary.

dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}

Setup Postfix SMTP Authentication using Dovecot

Dovecot provides an SMTP authentication mechanism to Postfix called SASL. Enabling this will require users to authenticate against the server before sending mail.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Append the following to enable smtp authentication:

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

# allow authenticated users to send mail through Postfix SMTP
# more info at /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES/SMTPD_ACCESS_README
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
        permit_mynetworks
        permit_sasl_authenticated
        reject_unauth_destination

# general smtpd settings
# - reject clients that speak too early
# - reject mail from a null address to many recipients (usually spam)
smtpd_data_restrictions =
        reject_unauth_pipelining
        reject_multi_recipient_bounce
        permit

Configuring Dovecot

Dovecot handles writing incoming mail to the disk and moving/deleting mail as the user wishes. We're going to create a user and group called vmail which will be used to manage the email stored on disk.

useradd -m vmail
mkdir /email
chown -R vmail:vmail /email

Dovecot is configured in /etc/dovecot and the main configuration file is dovecot.conf.

cp /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.orig
vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Dovecot uses .d style configuration files.

• Authentication

cp /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf.orig
vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf

Tell dovecot to accept plain-text passwords (needed for some old email clients, you may not need to enable this).

disable_plaintext_auth = no

Tell it not to use the database, and not local users for mail delivery.

#!include auth-system.conf.ext
!include auth-sql.conf.ext

• Mail store

Tell dovecot where to store the email. The %d tells dovecot to substitute the user's domain name and %n is substituted by the user's email name. For example, digimer@alteeve.ca becomes /email/alteeve.ca/mkelly.

cp /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf.orig
vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf

mail_location = mbox:/email/%d/%n

Dovecot Authentication and SQL Settings

We need to tell dovecot where to look for passwords when authenticating a user. Where to look is controlled in the auth-sql.conf.ext file and is broken down into user and password lookups. We will want to first tell Dovecot which user to use when accessing the mail store on disk.

cp /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext.orig
vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext

userdb {
  driver = static
  args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/email/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes
}

• Now configure the SQL server access details.

Note: Make sure that PostgreSQL has sufficient max_connections set in /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf to handle enough connections for the expected number of email connections, plus other connections from other applications.

cp /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.0.9/example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
chown root:root /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
chmod 600 /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext

Tell dovecot to use PostgreSQL.

driver = pgsql

Configure the connection string.

Note: If your database uses a password with a space character in it, quote the password. Ie: password='super secret'.

connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=an_tools user=alteeve password=secret

Tell dovecot to accept plain-text passwords (this is needed for some stupid MS clients, this will probably change soon).

default_pass_scheme = PLAIN

Tell dovecot how to pull use the user's password.

password_query = SELECT email, password FROM email_password WHERE email='%u'

The last thing to setup is the user query. The query needs to return the UID and GID of the vmail user we setup earlier. To get it, you can use the id command.

id vmail

uid=503(vmail) gid=503(vmail) groups=503(vmail)

The numbers we want are 503 and 503 for the UID and GID, respectively. Knowing this, we can set the userdb SQL string.

user_query = SELECT '/email/'||file AS email_dir, '503' AS uid, '503' AS gid FROM email_file WHERE email='%u'

Configure Listener Sockets

Setup the authentication socket to allow the vmail user. This will allow Dovecot to access the user authentication socket.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf

  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    mode = 0600
    user = vmail
    group = vmail
  }

Configure Dovecot to authenticate Postfix SMTP requests.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf

   unix_listener smtp-auth {
    mode = 0600
    user = postfix
    group = postfix
    path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
  }

Tell Dovecot to increase the number of allowed connections and child processes to handle heavier loads.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf

default_process_limit = 200
default_client_limit = 2000

Enable Logging

This is very useful for debugging an initial setup. It will place details about login attempts in /var/log/maillog.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf

log_path = syslog
auth_verbose = yes
auth_debug = yes
mail_debug = yes

At this point, it's a good idea to restart the Postfix and Dovecot services, and test out the basic configuration.

service postfix restart
service dovecot restart

Watch the maillog while attempting to authenticate with an email client like Thunderbird.

tail -f /var/log/maillog

If basic authentication is working, we can go ahead and add another layer of complexity on top of it: SSL.

SSL/TLS

Add TLS support to Postfix, to encrypt SMTP authentication traffic.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/pki/CA/ssl_mail.alteeve.ca.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/CA/private/mail.alteeve.ca.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1

Add TLS support to Dovecot, to encrypt IMAP authentication traffic.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf

ssl = yes

# PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key.
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/CA/ssl_mail.alteeve.ca.crt
ssl_key = </etc/pki/CA/private/mail.alteeve.ca.key

# PEM encoded trusted certificate authority. Otherwise your CA will be untrusted.
# This is the intermediary certificate.
ssl_ca = </etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle_alteeve.ca.pem

Dovecot prefers the following permissions for SSL certs, so set them accordingly.

chmod 0444 /etc/pki/CA/ssl_mail.alteeve.ca.crt
chmod 0400 /etc/pki/CA/private/mail.alteeve.ca.key
chmod 0400 /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle_alteeve.ca.pem

Restart Postfix and Dovecot, then change your Thunderbird server options to 'STARTTLS'. If you're still able to connect to the mail server and send mail, proceed to the next section.

User Password Encryption

In addition to SSL/TSL, which only encrypts the transport of user credentials, we're also going to encrypt the passwords themselves. This will avoid storing any plaintext passwords in the Postgres database.

vim /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf

Remove the "plain" authentication, and replace with cram-md5.

disable_plaintext_auth = yes
auth_mechanisms = cram-md5

Any user credentials that were previously stored in plaintext will no longer work. To encrypt your password in a way that Dovecot recognizes, use the following command:

doveadm -v pw -s CRAM-MD5 -p mypassword

It will return a hash like this.

{CRAM-MD5}de5924752ad74e36bc271a8dc7fad4b2d341f21f05382f20dedf1fdfbd5a1717

Take the entire hash, including the '{CRAM-MD5}' portion, and use it to replace the password entry in the database for that user. This will allow Dovecot to authenticate the user using the CRAM-MD5 auth mechanism.

To automate this process for all users in the database, you can look at the number of userid's there are and loop through them, encrypting and replacing each password.

#!/bin/bash
#
# a script to encrypt the users.usr_password values of the an_tools database

export PGUSER="alteeve"
export PGPASSWORD='secret'

for usrid in {1..219}; do

    # grab the user's password, removing whitespace
    usrpass=$(psql -d an_tools -c "SELECT users.usr_password FROM users WHERE users.usr_id=$usrid;"\
 | sed -n 3p | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//')

    if [[ "$usrpass" == *CRAM* ]]; then
        echo "Password for user #$usrid is already encrypted; skipping."
    else
        # encrypt and surround in single quotes for psql
        encrypted=\'$(doveadm -v pw -s CRAM-MD5 -p "$usrpass")\'
        echo "old password: [$usrpass] ; encrypted: $encrypted"

        # set password to encrypted value
        psql -d an_tools -c "UPDATE users SET usr_password=$encrypted WHERE usr_id=$usrid;"
    fi
done

unset PGUSER
unset PGPASSWORD

Postgrey Greylisting

Enabling postgrey for anti-spam greylisting.

First install the RPMForge repos. (See Dakini's blog for details.)

yum -y install postgrey

Create the config file with the following options. This will delay mail from untrusted sources by 6 minutes. A legitimate mailserver will resend the request after that time, and be allowed through. But spam is generally sent out only once, so those messages will drop.

vim /etc/sysconfig/postgrey

OPTIONS="--unix=/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/socket --delay=360"

Ensure that Postgrey starts on boot.

chkconfig --levels 345 postgrey on

/etc/postfix/main.cf

Configure Postfix to check SMTP requests through Postgrey. Postgrey will decide if the mail should be blocked or accepted.

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
        permit_mynetworks
        permit_sasl_authenticated
        reject_unauth_destination
        check_policy_service unix:postgrey/socket

Restart Postfix and Postgrey to take affect.

service postgrey start
service postfix restart

RoundCube Web Mail

Install the packages (these require the EPEL repo);

yum install roundcubemail php-pear-MDB2-Driver-pgsql

You need to set the timezone in the /etc/php.ini file.

cp /etc/php.ini /etc/php.ini.orig
vim /etc/php.ini

Set date.timezone value. If you aren't sure of the format or name of your timezone, run tzselect and follow the prompts. We want America/Toronto.

diff -u /etc/php.ini.orig /etc/php.ini

--- /etc/php.ini.orig	2012-08-18 22:27:05.244670258 -0400
+++ /etc/php.ini	2012-08-18 21:49:37.926938864 -0400
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@
 [Date]
 ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
 ; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone
-;date.timezone = 
+date.timezone = America/Toronto
 
 ; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.default-latitude
 ;date.default_latitude = 31.7667

Create the database for roundcube

su - postgres
createdb -O alteeve -E UNICODE roundcubemail
psql -U alteeve -D roundcubemail
\i /usr/share/doc/roundcubemail-0.5.4/SQL/postgres.initial.sql

Edit main configuration file

vim /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php

$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';
$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'tls://mail.alteeve.ca';
$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '%u';
$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '%p';
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_type'] = 'CRAM-MD5';
$rcmail_config['force_https'] = true;
$rcmail_config['use_https'] = true;
$rcmail_config['login_autocomplete'] = 1;

Now setup roundcube for connecting to our DB;

cp /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php.orig
vim /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php

Now set the connection string. Note to switch the DB driver to pgsql.

diff -u /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php.orig /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php

--- /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php.orig	2012-05-06 13:53:52.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php	2012-05-06 15:45:30.000000000 -0400
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // format is db_provider://user:password@host/database 
 // For examples see http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.mdb2.intro-dsn.php
 
-$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail';
+$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'pgsql://alteeve:secret@localhost/roundcubemail';
 // postgres example: 'pgsql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail';
 // Warning: for SQLite use absolute path in DSN:

Now setup roundcube to communicate with the mail server.

cp /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php.orig
vim /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php

There are several variables to set. Our server will talk to localhost using tls on port 587 using CRAM_MD5 encryption. We use, and require, https connections. There are a couple special values for querying the user's name and password from the database. Finally, we want to enable the user's browser's auto-complete functions and set the name shown to the users. Once all set, the diff should be similar to the one below.

diff -u /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php.orig /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php

--- /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php.orig	2012-05-06 13:53:59.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php	2012-07-06 14:59:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 // %n - http hostname ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])
 // %d - domain (http hostname without the first part)
 // For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %d = domain.tld
-$rcmail_config['default_host'] = '';
+$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';
 
 // TCP port used for IMAP connections
 $rcmail_config['default_port'] = 143;
@@ -121,22 +121,22 @@
 // %d - domain (http hostname without the first part)
 // %z - IMAP domain (IMAP hostname without the first part)
 // For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %d = domain.tld
-$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = '';
+$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'tls://mail.alteeve.ca';
 
 // SMTP port (default is 25; 465 for SSL)
-$rcmail_config['smtp_port'] = 25;
+$rcmail_config['smtp_port'] = 587;
 
 // SMTP username (if required) if you use %u as the username Roundcube
 // will use the current username for login
-$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '';
+$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '%u';
 
 // SMTP password (if required) if you use %p as the password Roundcube
 // will use the current user's password for login
-$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '';
+$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '%p';
 
 // SMTP AUTH type (DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN or empty to use
 // best server supported one)
-$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_type'] = '';
+$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_type'] = 'CRAM-MD5';
 
 // Optional SMTP authentication identifier to be used as authorization proxy
 $rcmail_config['smtp_auth_cid'] = null;
@@ -179,16 +179,16 @@
 // enforce connections over https
 // with this option enabled, all non-secure connections will be redirected.
 // set the port for the ssl connection as value of this option if it differs from the default 443
-$rcmail_config['force_https'] = false;
+$rcmail_config['force_https'] = true;
 
 // tell PHP that it should work as under secure connection
 // even if it doesn't recognize it as secure ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] is not set)
 // e.g. when you're running Roundcube behind a https proxy
-$rcmail_config['use_https'] = false;
+$rcmail_config['use_https'] = true;
 
 // Allow browser-autocompletion on login form.
 // 0 - disabled, 1 - username and host only, 2 - username, host, password
-$rcmail_config['login_autocomplete'] = 0;
+$rcmail_config['login_autocomplete'] = 1;
 
 // If users authentication is not case sensitive this must be enabled.
 // You can also use it to force conversion of logins to lower case.
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
 $rcmail_config['useragent'] = 'Roundcube Webmail/'.RCMAIL_VERSION;
 
 // use this name to compose page titles
-$rcmail_config['product_name'] = 'Roundcube Webmail';
+$rcmail_config['product_name'] = 'AN!Mail';
 
 // try to load host-specific configuration
 // see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Config for more details

That should be it.

Error No. [500]

After a recent OS update, 6.3 to 6.4, I started to get:

Error No. [500]

When trying to log into Round Cube. When I tail'ed /var/www/ssl_alteeve.ca/logs/error.log, there were two errors;

[Tue Sep 03 10:39:05 2013] [error] [client 108.168.16.38] PHP Warning:  Error writing to log file /var/log/roundcubemail/errors; Please check permissions in /usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/main.inc on line 1965, referer: https://alteeve.ca/m/
[Tue Sep 03 10:39:05 2013] [error] [client 108.168.16.38] PHP Notice:  Could not perform encryption; make sure Mcrypt is installed or lib/des.inc is available in /usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/main.inc on line 2120, referer: https://alteeve.ca/m/

Fixing the first was easy. The owner on /var/log/roundcubemail/errors was root:apache and the mode was 644, so a quick;

chmod 664 /var/log/roundcubemail/errors

Resolved that issue. Then I tail'ed the roundcube log and still saw the "Mcrypt" error. I found this post which had the fix. The trick was to alter /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini.orig.

cp /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini.orig
vim /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini

Change module.so to mcrypt.so, save and reload apache.

diff -u /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini.orig /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini

--- /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini.orig	2013-09-03 11:10:26.375001302 -0400
+++ /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini	2013-09-03 10:46:52.340999323 -0400
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 ; Enable mcrypt extension module
-extension=module.so
+;extension=module.so
+extension=mcrypt.so

Reload httpd;

/etc/init.d/httpd reload

Reloading httpd:

RoundCube should now work again.

Adding a password-reset link to the login page

Edit the login page template to insert the AN!Console password recovery link.

vim /usr/share/roundcubemail/skins/default/templates/login.html

(The part we're adding is the '<a href=""></a>'. Other parts of the template file are included here as a reference.)

<div id="login-form">
<div class="boxtitle"><roundcube:label name="welcome" /></div>
<div class="boxcontent">

<form name="form" action="./" method="post">
<roundcube:object name="loginform" form="form" />

<p style="text-align:center;"><input type="submit" class="button mainaction" value="<roundcube:label name='login' />" /></p>

</form>
<a href="../../cgi-bin/t/password.cgi">Forgot your password?</a>
</div>
</div>

Bugzilla

This tutorial covers installing bugzilla 4.4 on AN!'s bugzilla server.

Installing Bugzilla

• Installed on a fresh minimal CentOS / RHEL 6.4 install.
• Installed at: /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html/ on a dedicated server.
• Databases hosted on an external server running PostgreSQL.

Setup your webserver as above. Be sure to use SSL certificates! In this case, we will host our bugzilla at https://bugs.alteeve.ca.

Create the working directory, go to that directory, download the 4.4 install, extract it and switch into the created bugzilla-4.4 directory.

mkdir -p /var/www/{bugs.alteeve.ca,ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca}/{html,logs,cgi-bin,temp}
cd /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/temp/
wget -c http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-4.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf bugzilla-4.4.tar.gz 
cd bugzilla-4.4

Install dependent RPMs;

yum groupinstall development
yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-GD perl-GDTextUtil perl-MIME-tools perl-XML-Twig perl-DBD-Pg openssl-devel mod_perl-devel \
            mod_perl patchutils perl-Authen-SASL perl-BSD-Resource perl-CPAN perl-Class-Singleton perl-Convert-ASN1 perl-DateTime \
            perl-Digest-HMAC perl-Digest-SHA1 vim rsync wget acpid gpm mlocate syslinux perl-GSSAPI perl-LDAP perl-List-MoreUtils \
            perl-Params-Validate perl-SOAP-Lite perl-Test-Simple perl-Text-Iconv perl-XML-Filter-BufferText perl-XML-NamespaceSupport \
            perl-XML-SAX-Writer httpd cvs postgresql

Remove RPMs with perl modules that are too old.

yum remove perl-TimeDate perl-List-MoreUtils

Install from CPAN remaining needed perl modules.

# Don't ask us questions
export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1

# Optional modules
perl -MCPAN -e 'install("YAML")'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Chart::Lines'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Template::Plugin::GD::Image'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD::Graph'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install MIME::Parser'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install PatchReader'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SMTP::SSL'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Authen::Radius'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SOAP::Lite'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON::RPC'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON::XS'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Test::Taint'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Scrubber'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Encode::Detect'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Email::Reply'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::FormatText::WithLinks'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install TheSchwartz'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Daemon::Generic'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache2::SizeLimit'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::MimeInfo::Magic'

# Required modules
perl -MCPAN -e 'install DateTime'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Email::Send'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Math::Random::ISAAC'

If the above completed successfully, you should be able to run bugzilla's checksetup.pl script and have no missing modules, save for the DB drivers we're not going to use.

./checksetup.pl --check-modules

* This is Bugzilla 4.4 on perl 5.10.1
* Running on Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:19:38 UTC 2013

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v3.63 
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.47 
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24 
Checking for             DateTime (v0.28)     ok: found v1.03 
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v0.71)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for                  DBI (v1.54)     ok: found v1.609 
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.22)     ok: found v2.25 
Checking for           Email-Send (v2.04)     ok: found v2.199 
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.924 
Checking for                  URI (v1.37)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33 
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004 

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    not found 
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     not found 
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     not found 

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.44 
Checking for                Chart (v2.1)      ok: found v2.4.6 
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       ok: found v1.56 
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86 
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48 
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.504 
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.05 
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.34 
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6 
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.40 
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.13 
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01 
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.23 
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.06 
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.03 
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.0)      ok: found v2.34 
Checking for           Test-Taint (any)       ok: found v1.06 
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.40)     ok: found v3.64 
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.09 
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.35 
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       ok: found v1.01 
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.203 
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     ok: found v0.14 
Checking for          TheSchwartz (any)       ok: found v1.10 
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"FLOCK_FORKING_USE"} in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl5/File/Flock/Forking.pm line 13, <DATA> line 522.
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       ok: found v0.83 
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) ok: found v2.000004 
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     ok: found v0.96 
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       ok: found v0.18 
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110 
Checking for          mod_headers (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_expires (any)       ok 
Checking for              mod_env (any)       ok

Excellent!

Now re-run checksetup.pl by itself;

./checksetup.pl

* This is Bugzilla 4.4 on perl 5.10.1
* Running on Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:19:38 UTC 2013

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v3.63 
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.47 
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24 
Checking for             DateTime (v0.28)     ok: found v1.03 
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v0.71)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for                  DBI (v1.54)     ok: found v1.609 
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.22)     ok: found v2.25 
Checking for           Email-Send (v2.04)     ok: found v2.199 
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.924 
Checking for                  URI (v1.37)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33 
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004 

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    not found 
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     not found 
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     not found 

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.44 
Checking for                Chart (v2.1)      ok: found v2.4.6 
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       ok: found v1.56 
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86 
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48 
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.504 
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.05 
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.34 
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6 
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.40 
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.13 
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01 
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.23 
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.06 
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.03 
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.0)      ok: found v2.34 
Checking for           Test-Taint (any)       ok: found v1.06 
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.40)     ok: found v3.64 
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.09 
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.35 
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       ok: found v1.01 
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.203 
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     ok: found v0.14 
Checking for          TheSchwartz (any)       ok: found v1.10 
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"FLOCK_FORKING_USE"} in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl5/File/Flock/Forking.pm line 13, <DATA> line 522.
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       ok: found v0.83 
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) ok: found v2.000004 
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     ok: found v0.96 
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       ok: found v0.18 
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110 
Checking for          mod_headers (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_expires (any)       ok 
Checking for              mod_env (any)       ok 
Reading ./localconfig...

This version of Bugzilla contains some variables that you may want to
change and adapt to your local settings. The following variables are
new to ./localconfig since you last ran checksetup.pl:

create_htaccess, webservergroup, use_suexec, db_driver, db_host,
db_name, db_user, db_pass, db_port, db_sock, db_check, index_html,
cvsbin, interdiffbin, diffpath, site_wide_secret

Please edit the file ./localconfig and then re-run checksetup.pl
to complete your installation.

This will generate a file called localconfig with initial values. Make a backup of this and then edit it.

cp localconfig localconfig.orig
vim localconfig

Change the values as needed. Below is the diff of the configuration use by AN!.

diff -u localconfig.orig localconfig

--- localconfig.orig	2013-09-03 18:21:10.265003147 -0400
+++ localconfig	2013-09-03 18:38:00.231000167 -0400
@@ -47,30 +47,30 @@
 # can be obtained by listing Bugzilla/DB directory - every module corresponds
 # to one supported database and the name of the module (before ".pm")
 # corresponds to a valid value for this variable.
-$db_driver = 'mysql';
+$db_driver = 'Pg';
 
 # The DNS name or IP address of the host that the database server runs on.
-$db_host = 'localhost';
+$db_host = 'vm09-db01.alteeve.ca';
 
 # The name of the database. For Oracle, this is the database's SID. For
 # SQLite, this is a name (or path) for the DB file.
-$db_name = 'bugs';
+$db_name = 'an_bugs';
 
 # Who we connect to the database as.
-$db_user = 'bugs';
+$db_user = 'alteeve';
 
 # Enter your database password here. It's normally advisable to specify
 # a password for your bugzilla database user.
 # If you use apostrophe (') or a backslash (\) in your password, you'll
 # need to escape it by preceding it with a '\' character. (\') or (\)
 # (It is far simpler to just not use those characters.)
-$db_pass = '';
+$db_pass = 'secret';
 
 # Sometimes the database server is running on a non-standard port. If that's
 # the case for your database server, set this to the port number that your
 # database server is running on. Setting this to 0 means "use the default
 # port for my database server."
-$db_port = 0;
+$db_port = 5432;
 
 # MySQL Only: Enter a path to the unix socket for MySQL. If this is
 # blank, then MySQL's compiled-in default will be used. You probably

Create the an_bugs database.

createdb an_bugs -h vm09-db01.alteeve.ca -U alteeve

Password:

Rerun checksetup.pl again to verify your new configuration is sensible.

./checksetup.pl

* This is Bugzilla 4.4 on perl 5.10.1
* Running on Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:19:38 UTC 2013

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v3.63 
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.47 
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24 
Checking for             DateTime (v0.28)     ok: found v1.03 
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v0.71)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for                  DBI (v1.54)     ok: found v1.609 
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.22)     ok: found v2.25 
Checking for           Email-Send (v2.04)     ok: found v2.199 
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.924 
Checking for                  URI (v1.37)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33 
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004 

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    not found 
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     not found 
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     not found 

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.44 
Checking for                Chart (v2.1)      ok: found v2.4.6 
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       ok: found v1.56 
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86 
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48 
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.504 
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.05 
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.34 
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6 
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.40 
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.13 
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01 
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.23 
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.06 
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.03 
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.0)      ok: found v2.34 
Checking for           Test-Taint (any)       ok: found v1.06 
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.40)     ok: found v3.64 
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.09 
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.35 
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       ok: found v1.01 
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.203 
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     ok: found v0.14 
Checking for          TheSchwartz (any)       ok: found v1.10 
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"FLOCK_FORKING_USE"} in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl5/File/Flock/Forking.pm line 13, <DATA> line 522.
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       ok: found v0.83 
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) ok: found v2.000004 
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     ok: found v0.96 
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       ok: found v0.18 
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110 
Checking for          mod_headers (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_expires (any)       ok 
Checking for              mod_env (any)       ok 
Reading ./localconfig...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for           PostgreSQL (v8.03.0000) ok: found v08.04.1300 

Adding new table bz_schema...
Initializing bz_schema...
Creating tables...
Creating function array_accum...
Removing index 'bugs_fulltext_comments_idx' from the bugs_fulltext table...
Removing index 'bugs_fulltext_comments_noprivate_idx' from the bugs_fulltext table...
Adding new index 'profiles_login_name_lower_idx' to the profiles table ...
Adding new index 'fielddefs_name_lower_idx' to the fielddefs table ...
Adding new index 'keyworddefs_name_lower_idx' to the keyworddefs table ...
Adding new index 'products_name_lower_idx' to the products table ...
Setting up choices for standard drop-down fields:
   bug_status priority rep_platform resolution op_sys bug_severity
Creating ./data directory...
Creating ./data/attachments directory...
Creating ./data/db directory...
Creating ./data/extensions directory...
Creating ./data/mining directory...
Creating ./data/webdot directory...
Creating ./graphs directory...
Creating ./skins/custom directory...
Creating ./data/extensions/additional...
Creating ./data/mailer.testfile...
Creating ./Bugzilla/.htaccess...
Creating ./data/.htaccess...
Creating ./data/attachments/.htaccess...
Creating ./data/webdot/.htaccess...
Creating ./graphs/.htaccess...
Creating ./lib/.htaccess...
Creating ./template/.htaccess...
Creating contrib/.htaccess...
Creating t/.htaccess...
Creating xt/.htaccess...
Precompiling templates...done.
Fixing file permissions...
Initializing "Dependency Tree Changes" email_setting ...
Initializing "Product/Component Changes" email_setting ...
Marking closed bug statuses as such...
Creating default classification 'Unclassified'...
Setting up foreign keys...
Setting up the default status workflow...
Creating default groups...
Setting up user preferences...

Looks like we don't have an administrator set up yet. Either this is
your first time using Bugzilla, or your administrator's privileges
might have accidentally been deleted.

Enter the e-mail address of the administrator: admin@alteeve.ca

Enter the real name of the administrator: Alteeve Admin

Enter a password for the administrator account: 
Please retype the password to verify:

admin@alteeve.ca is now set up as an administrator.
Creating initial dummy product 'TestProduct'...

Now that you have installed Bugzilla, you should visit the 'Parameters'
page (linked in the footer of the Administrator account) to ensure it
is set up as you wish - this includes setting the 'urlbase' option to
the correct URL.
checksetup.pl complete.

Configure Apache for Bugzilla

Now move the files into the web root, switch to the web root document

rsync -av /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/temp/bugzilla-4.4/* /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html/
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca
cd /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html

Next, setup the apache configuration files. We'll need two;

• bugs.alteeve.ca.conf; rewrite all non-SSL requests to their SSL version.
• ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca.conf; The actual configuration file.

The configuration to rewrite any incoming http:// requests to https:// requests.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/bugs.alteeve.ca.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca

	ServerName bugs.alteeve.ca

	RedirectMatch permanent (.*) https://bugs.alteeve.ca$1

	ErrorLog /var/www/bugs.alteeve.ca/logs/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel debug

	CustomLog /var/www/bugs.alteeve.ca/logs/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Now write the actual SSL-enabled configuration for bugzilla.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>
	ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca

	ServerName bugs.alteeve.ca

	#DirectoryIndex index.cgi
	
	# We can haz security?
	SSLEngine on
	SSLProtocol all
	SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem
	SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca.crt
	SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/CA/private/bugs.alteeve.ca.key
    	
	DocumentRoot /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html/
	Alias /w /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html/index.php
	<Directory /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html>
		AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
		Options +ExecCGI
		DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.html
		AllowOverride Limit FileInfo Indexes Options
		#Options +Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		#AllowOverride All 
		#Order allow,deny
		#allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/logs/error.log
	TransferLog /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/logs/transfer.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel info

	CustomLog /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/logs/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Verify the syntax;

apachectl -t

Syntax OK

apachectl -S

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:443                  bugs.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca.conf:1)
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost unknown.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost bugs.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/bugs.alteeve.ca.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost bugs.alteeve.ca (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:74)
Syntax OK

Run a final check of the bugzilla configuration;

cd /var/www/ssl_bugs.alteeve.ca/html
./checksetup.pl

* This is Bugzilla 4.4 on perl 5.10.1
* Running on Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:19:38 UTC 2013

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v3.63 
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.47 
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24 
Checking for             DateTime (v0.28)     ok: found v1.03 
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v0.71)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for                  DBI (v1.54)     ok: found v1.609 
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.22)     ok: found v2.25 
Checking for           Email-Send (v2.04)     ok: found v2.199 
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.924 
Checking for                  URI (v1.37)     ok: found v1.60 
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33 
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004 

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    not found 
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     not found 
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     not found 

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.44 
Checking for                Chart (v2.1)      ok: found v2.4.6 
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       ok: found v1.56 
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86 
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48 
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.504 
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.05 
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.34 
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6 
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.40 
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.13 
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01 
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.23 
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.06 
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.03 
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.0)      ok: found v2.34 
Checking for           Test-Taint (any)       ok: found v1.06 
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.40)     ok: found v3.64 
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.09 
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.35 
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       ok: found v1.01 
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.203 
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     ok: found v0.14 
Checking for          TheSchwartz (any)       ok: found v1.10 
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"FLOCK_FORKING_USE"} in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl5/File/Flock/Forking.pm line 13, <DATA> line 522.
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       ok: found v0.83 
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) ok: found v2.000004 
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     ok: found v0.96 
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       ok: found v0.18 
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110 
Checking for          mod_headers (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_expires (any)       ok 
Checking for              mod_env (any)       ok 
Reading ./localconfig...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.15.1 
Checking for           PostgreSQL (v8.03.0000) ok: found v08.04.1300 

Removing existing compiled templates...
Precompiling templates...done.
Fixing file permissions...

Now that you have installed Bugzilla, you should visit the 'Parameters'
page (linked in the footer of the Administrator account) to ensure it
is set up as you wish - this includes setting the 'urlbase' option to
the correct URL.
checksetup.pl complete.

Start up the server!

/etc/init.d/httpd start

Starting httpd: Apache/2.2.15 mod_ssl/2.2.15 (Pass Phrase Dialog)
Some of your private key files are encrypted for security reasons.
In order to read them you have to provide the pass phrases.

Server bugs.alteeve.ca:443 (RSA)
Enter pass phrase:

OK: Pass Phrase Dialog successful.
                                                           [  OK  ]

If everything is working, you should be able to browse to your bugzilla install!

Configure Bugzilla Itself

Log in as the adminitrator (user name is the email address you entered earlier with ./checksetup.pl) and go to https://<domain>/editparams.cgi.

• General

Variab	Value
urlbase	https://bugs.alteeve.ca
ssl_redirect	Click to check On
sslbase	https://bugs.alteeve.ca

• Email

Variab	Value
mail_delivery_method	SMTP
mailfrom	bugs@alteeve.ca
use_mailer_queue	Click to check On
smtpserver	mail.alteeve.ca
smtp_username	bugs@alteeve.ca
smtp_password	secret
smtp_ssl	Click to check On
globalwatchers	admin@alteeve.ca

Mailman

Mailing list software!

Install Mailman

We need mailman 3 in order to get encrypted passwords. So we'll not be using mailman as shipped with RHEL6.

Install Prerequisite RPMs

yum -y install postfix mailx httpd gcc mod_ssl
chkconfig postfix on
chkconfig httpd on

Install Python 2.7

From here.

wget -qO- http://people.redhat.com/bkabrda/scl_python27.repo >> /etc/yum.repos.d/scl.repo
yum update
yum -y install python27
scl enable python27 bash
python -V

You should get:

Python 2.7.5

Configure Local Postfix

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Add:

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
mydomain = lists.alteeve.ca
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
mydestination = lists.alteeve.ca
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
mynetworks_style = subnet
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
	 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
	 ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = no
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES

(Re)start postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

Test local mail delivery:

echo hi | mailx -s test admin@alteeve.ca

If you got an email, local mail delivery is working.

Configure Apache for Mailman

Follow the Apache install above. Come back here

We will configure http://lists.alteeve.ca to redirect all calls to https://lists.alteeve.ca.

Specific configs:

Base apache:

diff -U0 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

--- /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig	2013-02-25 18:26:51.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf	2014-04-03 21:00:51.952003006 -0400
@@ -103,6 +103,6 @@
-StartServers       8
-MinSpareServers    5
-MaxSpareServers   20
-ServerLimit      256
-MaxClients       256
-MaxRequestsPerChild  4000
+StartServers      16
+MinSpareServers   10
+MaxSpareServers   40
+ServerLimit      512
+MaxClients       512
+MaxRequestsPerChild  8000
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@
-StartServers         4
-MaxClients         300
-MinSpareThreads     25
-MaxSpareThreads     75 
-ThreadsPerChild     25
+StartServers         8
+MaxClients         600
+MinSpareThreads     50
+MaxSpareThreads    150 
+ThreadsPerChild     50
@@ -262 +262 @@
-ServerAdmin root@localhost
+ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca
@@ -276 +276 @@
-#ServerName www.example.com:80
+ServerName lists.alteeve.ca:80
@@ -292 +292 @@
-DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
+DocumentRoot "/var/www/default/html"
@@ -317 +317 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/html">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/html">
@@ -551 +551 @@
-Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
+Alias /icons/ "/var/www/default/icons/"
@@ -553 +553 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/icons">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/icons">
@@ -576 +576 @@
-ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
+ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/default/cgi-bin/"
@@ -579 +579 @@
-# "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
+# "/var/www/default/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
@@ -582 +582 @@
-<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
+<Directory "/var/www/default/cgi-bin">
@@ -851 +851 @@
-# /var/www/error/include/ files and
+# /var/www/default/error/include/ files and
@@ -855 +855 @@
-Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"
+Alias /error/ "/var/www/default/error/"
@@ -859 +859 @@
-    <Directory "/var/www/error">
+    <Directory "/var/www/default/error">
@@ -990 +990 @@
-#NameVirtualHost *:80
+NameVirtualHost *:80

SSL setup:

diff -U0 /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.orig /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf

--- /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.orig	2014-04-03 21:37:26.431005814 -0400
+++ /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf	2014-04-03 21:10:16.558004490 -0400
@@ -74 +74 @@
-<VirtualHost _default_:443>
+<VirtualHost _default_:80>

Configure the http redirect to https:

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/lists.alteeve.ca.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca

	ServerName lists.alteeve.ca

	RedirectMatch permanent (.*) https://lists.alteeve.ca$1

	ErrorLog /var/www/lists.alteeve.ca/logs/error.log
	LogLevel debug

	CustomLog /var/www/lists.alteeve.ca/logs/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Setup the main https page:

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin admin@alteeve.ca
 
        ServerName lists.alteeve.ca
 
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
 
        # We can haz security?
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all
        SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/CA/wildcard_ssl_alteeve.ca.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/CA/private/wildcard_alteeve.ca.key
 
        DocumentRoot /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/html/
        Alias /w /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/html/index.php
        <Directory /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/html>
                Options +Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
 
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
 
        ErrorLog /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/logs/error.log
        TransferLog /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/logs/transfer.log
 
        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel debug
 
        CustomLog /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/logs/access.log combined
        ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Copy the wildcard SSL certs into place.

Create a redirect page:

mkdir -p /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/{cgi-bin,html,logs}
touch /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/html/index.html
chown -R apache:apache /var/www
vim /var/www/ssl_lists.alteeve.ca/html/index.html

<head>
        <title>Alteeve's Niche! - Mailing Lists</title>
</head>
<body>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=mailman/listinfo/" />
</body>

Connect to http://lists.alteeve.ca and it should automatically redirect to: http://lists.alteeve.ca/mailman/listinfo/.

Add an MX Record to Bind For lists.alteeve.ca

Add an entry in bind so that there is an MX record for lists.alteeve.ca:

/etc/named/db.alteeve.ca

Add:

lists.alteeve.ca.	MX	10	lists.alteeve.ca.

Save and reload named.

/etc/init.d/named reload

Install Mailman v3 from Source

At this time, the only v3 install is beta.

mkdir ~/temp
cd ~/temp/
wget https://launchpad.net/mailman/3.0/3.0.0b3/+download/mailman-3.0.0b3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mailman-3.0.0b3.tar.gz 
cd mailman-3.0.0b3
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

And here, the best laid plans fell to pieces... Back to mailman 2.

Configure Mailmain

Create the initial mailman list.

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist anvil-users

Enter the email of the person running the list: admin@alteeve.ca
Initial anvil-users password:

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:

## anvil-users mailing list
anvil-users:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post anvil-users"
anvil-users-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin anvil-users"
anvil-users-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces anvil-users"
anvil-users-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm anvil-users"
anvil-users-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join anvil-users"
anvil-users-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave anvil-users"
anvil-users-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner anvil-users"
anvil-users-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request anvil-users"
anvil-users-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe anvil-users"
anvil-users-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe anvil-users"

Hit enter to notify anvil-users owner...

Edit the alias file:

vim /etc/aliases

Append:

## anvil-users mailing list
anvil-users:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post anvil-users"
anvil-users-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin anvil-users"
anvil-users-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces anvil-users"
anvil-users-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm anvil-users"
anvil-users-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join anvil-users"
anvil-users-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave anvil-users"
anvil-users-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner anvil-users"
anvil-users-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request anvil-users"
anvil-users-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe anvil-users"
anvil-users-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe anvil-users"

And load:

newaliases

WebUI Config

1. https://lists.alteeve.ca/mailman/admin/anvil-users/general
   1. Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address (Removes From, Sender and Reply-To fields) -> Yes.

Deleting Mail from the Archive

Go to the list directory:

cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private

Edit the .mbox file for the list.

vim anvil-users.mbox/anvil-users.mbox

Find the message you want to delete and then delete everything from From <sender email> <date> <year> until the same line from the next message (or end of the file if it's the last message in the list).

Example:

From lists@alteeve.ca  Thu Apr  3 23:35:27 2014
Return-Path: <lists@alteeve.ca>
X-Original-To: anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca
Delivered-To: anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca
Received: from vm08-mail01.alteeve.ca (unknown [65.39.153.71])
        by vm17-lists.alteeve.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD83313FB13
        for <anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca>;
        Thu,  3 Apr 2014 23:35:27 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from lemass.alteeve.ca (dhcp-108-168-20-202.cable.user.start.ca
        [108.168.20.202])
        by vm08-mail01.alteeve.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80EC720171
        for <anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca>;
        Thu,  3 Apr 2014 23:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <533E2037.1020302@alteeve.ca>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:00:07 -0400
From: Digimer <lists@alteeve.ca>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
        rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: [Anvil-users] Test
X-BeenThere: anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12
Precedence: list
List-Id: <anvil-users.lists.alteeve.ca>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.alteeve.ca/mailman/options/anvil-users>,
        <mailto:anvil-users-request@lists.alteeve.ca?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.alteeve.ca/pipermail/anvil-users/>
List-Post: <mailto:anvil-users@lists.alteeve.ca>
List-Help: <mailto:anvil-users-request@lists.alteeve.ca?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.alteeve.ca/mailman/listinfo/anvil-users>,
        <mailto:anvil-users-request@lists.alteeve.ca?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:35:27 -0000

Please ignore.

-- 
Digimer
Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/
What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without 
access to education?

Once deleted, move the list directory out of the way and then regenerate the list archives.

mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/anvil-users /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/anvil-users.1
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch anvil-users

#00000 <CA+scbRK1dZAY6Jv5UqBM7-cG_L385QCtFY5UFx3RWRABN7sG1g@mail.gmail.com>
figuring article archives
2014-April
#00001 <CA+scbRJ96jXnx=0iFk220FsoEFghNoR2gwLg-DmTQ3rL2qDw+w@mail.gmail.com>
figuring article archives
2014-April
#00002 <533E2CF6.7080909@alteeve.ca>
figuring article archives
2014-April
Updating index files for archive [2014-April]
  Date
  Subject
  Author
  Thread
Computing threaded index
Updating HTML for article 0
Updating HTML for article 1
Updating HTML for article 2
Pickling archive state into /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/anvil-users/pipermail.pck

Reload the archive page and verify that the email is gone.

If so, delete the backup directory.

rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/anvil-users.1

Thanks

• To Dave Shevett (aka: eidolon) and Owen Jacobson for answering my n00b SSL questions.

 

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