[ZendTo] Re: Installing on Ubuntu Server
Nigel Kendrick
linker3000 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 14:59:53 GMT 2011
Thanks Jules,
The target host is running 64-bit but it's 'only' an AMD NEO dual core chip
so burdening it with a VM too is something I hoped to avoid. Personally, I'd
use CentOS, but in my new role I have an IT Director above me and he's
welded to Ubuntu!
All the best.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Jules <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
> This is why I distribute it as a VM, so you don't have to do all this
> stuff by hand (it's quite a long list of instructions). But from my notes on
> building the VMs, here are what I have to say on the subject. For starters,
> do this on a 64-bit build of Ubuntu, not 32-bit, or you will be limited to 2
> Gbyte uploads due to limitations in PHP. You still have to rebuild the
> Apache PHP library with some code edits to get past the 2 Gbyte upload
> limit, but at least in 64-bit it can be done. I will leave out all the stuff
> to do with https, as you can add that later yourself (and it's on the
> website Documentation page).
>
> Here we go.....
>
> Install Ubuntu 10 server 64-bit
> Partition manually.
> Part 1 = primary 2.0 GB swap at beginning of disk
> Part 2 = primary max / ext4 bootable
> Install security updates automatically.
> Software selection: Basic, LAMP, OpenSSH.
> Install GRUB in master boot record.
>
> Remove CD/DVD and reboot.
>
> SSH in remotely, stop using console.
>
> sudo su -
>
> This chunk rebuilds the Apache PHP5 library so that uploads can be more
> than 2 Gbytes.
>
> mkdir php-source
> cd php-source
> apt-get -y install debhelper bison chrpath freetds-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
> libedit-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libgmp3-dev libmhash-dev libpam0g-dev
> libpspell-dev librecode-dev libsasl2-dev libsnmp-dev libsqlite0-dev
> libt1-dev libtidy-dev re2c unixodbc-dev
> apt-get -y install apache2-prefork-dev autoconf automake flex
> hardening-wrapper libapr1-dev libbz2-dev libdb-dev libenchant-dev
> libgcrypt11-dev libglib2.0-dev libicu-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev
> libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev libxmltok1-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev quilt
> apt-get -y install clamav clamav-daemon
> apt-get -y install php5 php5-cli php5-sqlite php5-ldap php5-apc
> apt-get -y install rrdtool
> apt-get -y source php5-cgi
> cd php5*
> perl -i -pe 's/int zend_atoi/long zend_atoi/' Zend/zend_operators.[ch];
> perl -i -pe 's/\n/@@@@@@/g' Zend/zend_operators.c;perl -i -pe 's/(long
> zend_atoi.*?)int retval/$1long retval/m' Zend/zend_operators.c;
> perl -i -pe 's/@@@@@@/\n/g' Zend/zend_operators.c;perl -i -pe
> 's/atoi\(content_length\)/atol(content_length)/' `find sapi -name '*.c'`perl
> -i -pe 's/\(uint\)( SG\(request_info\))/$1/' `find sapi -name '*.c'`;
> perl -i -pe 's/uint post_data_length, raw/uint IGNORE_post_data_length,
> IGNORE_raw/' main/SAPI.h;perl -i -pe 's/} sapi_request_info/\tlong
> post_data_length, raw_post_data_length;\n} sapi_request_info/' main/SAPI.h;
> perl -i -pe 's/int read_post_bytes/long read_post_bytes/' main/SAPI.h;
> perl -i -pe 's/int boundary_len=0, total_bytes=0/long total_bytes=0; int
> boundary_len=0/' main/rfc1867.c;
> # Omit this for the 32-bit build
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b -j2
> cd debian/libapache2-mod-php5/usr/lib/apache2/modules
> mv /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so-UBUNTU
> cp libphp5.so /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
> # End Omit this for the 32-bit build
>
> Bit of cleaning up.
> cd
> apt-get remove mysql-server
> rm -rf ~/php-source
>
> Setup PHP for ZendTo
> cd /etc/php5/apache2
> Edit php.ini
> allow_call_time_pass_reference = On
> max_execution_time = 7200
> max_input_time = 7200
> memory_limit = 300M
> error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED
> display_errors = On
> post_max_size = 50000M
> upload_tmp_dir = /var/zendto/incoming
> upload_max_filesize = 50G
> max_file_uploads = 200
>
> Edit conf.d/apc.ini
> apc.rfc1867 = on
> apc.max_file_size = 50G
>
> Setup the ZendTo website.
> cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
> rm 000-default
> cat <<EOF > 000-zendto
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
>
> HostnameLookups On
>
> DocumentRoot /opt/zendto/www
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> <Directory /opt/zendto/www/>
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> LogLevel notice
> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
> CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
> </VirtualHost>
> EOF
>
> Set all the permissions required and make sure that AppArmor doesn't get in
> the way of the virus scanning.
> usermod -a -G www-data clamav
>
> Edit /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.clamd
> - Add " /var/zendto/** r," just before the last line
>
> cd /var
> mkdir zendto zendto/dropoffs zendto/incoming zendto/rrd
> touch zendto/zendto.log
> chown www-data zendto/*
> chgrp www-data zendto zendto/*
> chmod g+w zendto
>
> Housekeeping jobs.
> export EDITOR=vi
> crontab -e
> Add these 3 lines at the end:
> 5 0 * * * /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/cleanup.php
> /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php
> 2 10 * * * /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/rrdInit.php
> /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php
> 2 12 * * * /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/rrdUpdate.php
> /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php
>
> Unpack all the source under /opt/ZendTo-3.63.
> Build all the source code owned by root.root under /opt/zendto,
> making /opt/ZendTo-3.63 the real dir with /opt/zendto a symlink to it.
>
> Basically, the web server must be able to write into the directories cache
> and templates_c (ignore the MyZendTo stuff for now, that's a slightly
> different project that ships with ZendTo). And the web server must be able
> to read everything else.
> cd /opt/zendto
> chown -R www-data cache *templates_c
> chgrp -R www-data cache *templates_c
> chmod -R ug+rwX cache *templates_c
> chmod -R o+rX *
>
> service apache2 restart
>
> Load the home page of the new website in a web browser.
> Click on the "About" button.
> That will create the database.
>
> Login and "sudo su -" to get root access.
>
> cd /opt/zendto/sbin
> php rrdInit.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php
> Ignore any "PHP Notice" output from that.
>
> Then start setting up the authentication in
> /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php. If you are using AD or LDAP then play
> with "ldapsearch" until you can get it to read users' information, and then
> you will have the right strings to put into preferences.php.
>
> If you are going to use the "Local" authentication to start with, then look
> in /opt/zendto/bin for all the commands required to add and edit the user
> table. It *never* stores plain-text passwords, don't worry!
>
> Customise the user interface with /opt/zendto/config/zendto.conf. If you
> want to make bigger changes, then it's all templated in
> /opt/zendto/templates.
>
> Hopefully that will get you started.
> Do you see why I distribute it as a pre-built VM now? :-)
>
> Jules.
>
>
> On 09/02/2011 13:09, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>
> Hi Jules and everybody else,
>
> I'm looking to install ZendTo on a Ubuntu server so I have to start with
> the tar version. I've unpacked it and now deeply missing the comfort of an
> install.sh a la MailScanner!
>
> I've checked the docs on site and as supplied in the tar file but can't see
> where to dive in. Any pointers appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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