Sorry gang, I’ve been really bogged down by RL issues and I haven’t really updated an articles as of lately. But worry not, I have an entire backlog or articles (100+) that I need to add to the site eventually.
Archive for June, 2010
How to enable SFTP with Filezilla Server
June 30th, 2010By default, Filezilla Server does not support FTP via SFTP. However if can use SSL / TLS, commonly referred to as FTPS . It’s also a breeze to enable this in the Filezilla FTP Server Configuration. To do this, you simply have to do the following:
1.Access the Filezilla FTP server’s settings by going to Edit -> Settings.
2. Once in the Settings section, you will need to scroll down to the SSL / TLS settings section.
3. Here you will need to check the “Enable FTP over SSL / TLS support (FTPS). Once you do this, the option to “Allow explicit FTP over TLS will be come available and Disallow plain unencrypted FTP” and “Force PROT P to encrypt file transfers in SSL/TLS mode. Be sure to check both.
4. Now you will need to click on the button “Generate new certificate..”. Once you do this, you will be presented with the following screen;
5. Be sure to check check either 1024 bit, 2048 bit or 4096 bit. Since this is a self signed SSL, you can choose 4096 bit. Now you will need to fill out the rest of he required sections. Once you completed this, be sure to specify a valid location to save the key and certificate to. Once you have, click “Generate certificate”.
6. Filezilla server will now be setup to only use FTPS/FTPSE and will reject any FTP connections over port 21. Your new port will be 990. If you try to use conventional ftp to access the server, you may receive the error that you have to use explicit SSL / TLS before logging in.
7. You will now need to specify port 990 in order to log into the ftp server. Upon logging in, you will need to accept the SSL for the server now. You will have the option as well to always trust the certificate for future sessions.
You have now secured Filezilla FTP server for use with only a FTPS connection. If at any time you wish to remove the SSL from the connection, simply log back into the FTP server and goto the SSL / TLS settings section and uncheck the “Enable FTP over SSL / TLS support (FTPS)” option.
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How to install / reinstall RoundCube in Whm / cPanel (Linux)
June 5th, 2010First make sure you know your mysql root password, you have to replace DATABASEPASSWORD to your mysql root password.
If you have already used RoundCube installation please make sure you remove any traces of it with,
cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
rm -rf roundcube*
mysql -p -e ‘drop database roundcube’;
chattr -i /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x/webmaillogin.html
chattr -i /usr/local/cpanel/base/webmaillogin.cgi
/scripts/upcp
You will have to specify your root password when prompted.
Now lets download roundcube first and chmod the directorys
cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
wget -O roundcube.tar.gz http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/roundcubemail/roundcubemail-0.1-rc1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf roundcube.tar.gz
rm -rf roundcube.tar.gz
mv -f roundcubemail-0.1-rc1 roundcube
cd roundcube
chmod -R 777 temp
chmod -R 777 logs
Create the database and install the intial sql file. The following commands will do this for you.
mysql -e “CREATE DATABASE roundcube;” -pDATABASEPASSWORD
mysql -e “use roundcube; source SQL/mysql.initial.sql;” -pDATABASEPASSWORD
Now lets sort out the configuration
cd config
mv db.inc.php.dist db.inc.php
mv main.inc.php.dist main.inc.php
Now open db.inc.php
nano db.inc.php
Find
$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = ‘mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail’;
Replace with
$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = ‘mysql://root:DATABASEPASSWORD@localhost/roundcube’;
Now Open main.inc.php
nano main.inc.php
Find
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = ”;
Replace with
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = ‘localhost’;
Now we have to configure cPanel to show roundcube in the theme. Please note this is for the X theme(default) only!! If you use another theme please skip the next part and see below.
cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/roundcube/skins/default/images/
cp –reply=yes roundcube_logo.png /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x/images/roundcube_logo.png
cp –reply=yes roundcube_logo.png /usr/local/cpanel/base/webmail/x/images/roundcube_logo.png
cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
wget http://www.hostgeekz.com/files/hostgeekz/HGpatch-roundcube-0.1-rc1
patch -p0 < HGpatch-roundcube-0.1-rc1
**NOTE** If you receive a message stating
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R?
please press N for No as this is because you previously installed roundcube
This will auto do all the necessary changes to roundcube and the X theme.
Once the patch is executed you may now access roundcube via http://yourip/webmail
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If you do not use the X theme please do the following
cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
wget http://www.hostgeekz.com/files/hostgeekz/HGpatch-roundcube-NON-X-0.1-rc1
patch -p0 < HGpatch-roundcube-NON-X-0.1-rc1
Then open your webmaillogin.html, please replace YOURTHEME with the name of your theme.
nano /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/YOURTHEME/webmaillogin.html
and find
</td>
</cpanelif>
</cpanelfeature>
Add Below
<td align=”center” valign=”bottom” width=”200″>
<a href=”/roundcube/index.php”><img src=”images/roundcube_logo.png” border=”0″></a>
<a href=”/roundcube/index.php”>RoundCube</a>
</td>
Remember to chattr +i the files or add the patch to your /scripts/upcp.
chattr +i /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x/webmaillogin.html
chattr +i /usr/local/cpanel/base/webmaillogin.cgi
If you are using cPanel 11 ensure to run the following fix.
wget http://www.hostgeekz.com/files/hostgeekz/cpanel-11-fix.sh
chmod 700 cpanel-11-fix.sh
./cpanel-11-fix.sh
rm -f cpanel-11-fix.sh
That’s it! You may now access roundcube via http://yourip/webmail
