I'm planning to run and learn to admin a test web server at home with
the aim of doing it on a real thing eventually

Can anybody recommend a set of stuff (free/GPL) for this purpose?

I'm planning to try FreeBSD because it's supposedly most secured and
seems like a lot of web servers are running on BSD too.

As for MTA/Mail daemon, I noticed that CPANEL is using Exim instead of
others like qmail or sendmail. Is that a good reason to go for Exim or
are there better ones that support virtual hosts, filter/blocking,
mailing list and preferably configurable via sql.

For the FTP daemon, proFTPD has been recommended to me in the past and
it also apparently is the default daemon used by CPANEL. Is there any
reason not to go with it or there are better ones available?


Thanks!
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"The little lost angel" <a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com> wrote in
message news:3f884aa0.13637950@news.pacific.net.sg...
> I'm planning to run and learn to admin a test web server at home with
> the aim of doing it on a real thing eventually
>
> Can anybody recommend a set of stuff (free/GPL) for this purpose?
>
> I'm planning to try FreeBSD because it's supposedly most secured and
> seems like a lot of web servers are running on BSD too.
>
> As for MTA/Mail daemon, I noticed that CPANEL is using Exim instead of
> others like qmail or sendmail. Is that a good reason to go for Exim or
> are there better ones that support virtual hosts, filter/blocking,
> mailing list and preferably configurable via sql.
>
> For the FTP daemon, proFTPD has been recommended to me in the past and
> it also apparently is the default daemon used by CPANEL. Is there any
> reason not to go with it or there are better ones available?
>
>
> Thanks!
> --
> L.Angel: I'm looking for web design work.
> If you need basic to med complexity webpages at affordable rates, email me

> Standard HTML, SHTML, MySQL + PHP or ASP, Javascript.
> If you really want, FrontPage & DreamWeaver too.
> But keep in mind you pay extra bandwidth for their bloated code

I would recommend you use this setup:

Redhat Linux 9
Apache 1.3.28
PHP 4.3.3
MySQL 4.0.15
Pure-FTP
Exim
Bind 9
OpenSSL
OpenSSH

That setup seems to blend together very nicely.

Thanks,
Dan
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www.DynamoHosting.net

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:37:04 -0400, "Dan DeVincent"
<stftk14@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>I would recommend you use this setup:
>
>Redhat Linux 9
>Apache 1.3.28
>PHP 4.3.3
>MySQL 4.0.15
>Pure-FTP
>Exim
>Bind 9
>OpenSSL
>OpenSSH

I'm curious about Pure-FTP, it seems rather good on a first glance,
supports SQL based user administration and clear documentation. The
curiousity is both Pure-FTP and Pro-FTP lists Linksys as one of their
major users :PppPp

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"The little lost angel" <a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com> wrote in
message news:3f885f02.18856384@news.pacific.net.sg...
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:37:04 -0400, "Dan DeVincent"
> <stftk14@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> >I would recommend you use this setup:
> >
> >Redhat Linux 9
> >Apache 1.3.28
> >PHP 4.3.3
> >MySQL 4.0.15
> >Pure-FTP
> >Exim
> >Bind 9
> >OpenSSL
> >OpenSSH
>
> I'm curious about Pure-FTP, it seems rather good on a first glance,
> supports SQL based user administration and clear documentation. The
> curiousity is both Pure-FTP and Pro-FTP lists Linksys as one of their
> major users :PppPp
>
> --
> L.Angel: I'm looking for web design work.
> If you need basic to med complexity webpages at affordable rates, email me

> Standard HTML, SHTML, MySQL + PHP or ASP, Javascript.
> If you really want, FrontPage & DreamWeaver too.
> But keep in mind you pay extra bandwidth for their bloated code

Not really sure about Linksys, we use PureFTP on our servers due to the fact
it is much more resource friendly than proFTPD and the login time with
pureftp is about 1-2 seconds while proftpd can be 5-10.

The little lost angel wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:37:04 -0400, "Dan DeVincent"
> <stftk14@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
>>I would recommend you use this setup:
>>
>>Redhat Linux 9
>>Apache 1.3.28
>>PHP 4.3.3
>>MySQL 4.0.15
>>Pure-FTP
>>Exim
>>Bind 9
>>OpenSSL
>>OpenSSH
>
>
> I'm curious about Pure-FTP, it seems rather good on a first glance,
> supports SQL based user administration and clear documentation. The
> curiousity is both Pure-FTP and Pro-FTP lists Linksys as one of their
> major users :PppPp

I like vsftpd. It's been more stable, and in RedHat 9 it's better
configured. The multiple configurations for multiple IP addresses is
done in a particularly clever fashion, and it does "chroot" without
requiring the "/./" whackiness or a local chroot cage
{chroot}/etc/passwd file.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:59:13 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>I like vsftpd. It's been more stable, and in RedHat 9 it's better
>configured. The multiple configurations for multiple IP addresses is
>done in a particularly clever fashion, and it does "chroot" without
>requiring the "/./" whackiness or a local chroot cage
>{chroot}/etc/passwd file.

I've seen vsftpd mentioned here and there but seems like not as many
people use it. This is a factor for me because I figured the more
people uses a particular app, the more likely whatever problems I get
stuck with, has already been asked and solved :P

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The little lost angel wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:59:13 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>I like vsftpd. It's been more stable, and in RedHat 9 it's better
>>configured. The multiple configurations for multiple IP addresses is
>>done in a particularly clever fashion, and it does "chroot" without
>>requiring the "/./" whackiness or a local chroot cage
>>{chroot}/etc/passwd file.
>
>
> I've seen vsftpd mentioned here and there but seems like not as many
> people use it. This is a factor for me because I figured the more
> people uses a particular app, the more likely whatever problems I get
> stuck with, has already been asked and solved :P

In general, quite true. But I found it capable of everything proftpd
does, it behaves better under xinetd operation. vsftpd seems to have
been built from the ground-up with Linux operation and security
configuration in mind, as opposed to adding Linux as a strap-on feature.
And since proftpd is an add-on, rather than built into RedHat
distributions, I don't have to worry about maintaining it separately or
paying pftpd's licensing fees for commercial use.

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:14:10 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

>In general, quite true. But I found it capable of everything proftpd
>does, it behaves better under xinetd operation. vsftpd seems to have
>been built from the ground-up with Linux operation and security
>configuration in mind, as opposed to adding Linux as a strap-on feature.

I'm not familiar with RH, am I correct to think you mean vsftpd is
part of the RH distribution?

>And since proftpd is an add-on, rather than built into RedHat
>distributions, I don't have to worry about maintaining it separately or
>paying pftpd's licensing fees for commercial use.

Hmm, I didn't realize pftpd had a licensing fee. It doesn't appear to
mention it at all either

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:15:44 GMT,
a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com (The little lost angel) wrote:

>I'm not familiar with RH, am I correct to think you mean vsftpd is
>part of the RH distribution?

erm, ignore this, my fingers typed a bit too fast for my sleepy brain
(5am here) to tell them to go to the web first :PppPp

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The little lost angel wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:14:10 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>In general, quite true. But I found it capable of everything proftpd
>>does, it behaves better under xinetd operation. vsftpd seems to have
>>been built from the ground-up with Linux operation and security
>>configuration in mind, as opposed to adding Linux as a strap-on feature.
>
>
> I'm not familiar with RH, am I correct to think you mean vsftpd is
> part of the RH distribution?
>
>
>>And since proftpd is an add-on, rather than built into RedHat
>>distributions, I don't have to worry about maintaining it separately or
>>paying pftpd's licensing fees for commercial use.
>
>
> Hmm, I didn't realize pftpd had a licensing fee. It doesn't appear to
> mention it at all either

I thought it did. Let me dig a bit. (Dig, dig, dig.). Hmm. ".org"
website instead of .com, lots of notes about GPL licensing. I have no
idea where I got the idea they had commercial licensing.

ProFTPd authors, I apologize and withdraw that objection. I'm still
sticking with vsftpd because it allows me to chroot users without
building a separate passwd file, and because it's built into recent
RedHat releases (my platform of choice), but have used ProFTPd in the
past and can recommmend it highly.