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Easy CURL 7.10.4 w/SSL

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:35:04 +0000

We've put together these RPM's for libcurl 7.10.2 with SSL support. They upgrade over the stock RH ones. Installation is via rpm -Uvh

Applicability (RH 7.2 / 7.3 required) :

Webppliance 3.1
Webppliance Pro 3.5
cPanel 6
Plesk 5.0

These are also Modernbill compatible on all above panel types.

Downloadables:

curl-7.10.4-1.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.10.4-1.i386.rpm

MD5 Checksums

37a04f7db8c34fddbb309d067d16a453 curl-7.10.4-1.i386.rpm
e09253b7c227573f4e5b10d3987f433b curl-devel-7.10.4-1.i386.rpm

Credits: http://www.cheetaweb.com/

APF Firewall 0.9.4-7

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:32:07 +0000

Just thought I'd update the howto's for APF.

Type ifconfig

Find out if it�s using eth0 or eth1.

Usually its eth0 but if its not, change it in conf.apf or you�ll be completely blocking the server from access

wget http://www.rfxnetworks.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz

tar -xvzf apf-current.tar.gz
cd apf*
./install.sh
pico -w /etc/apf/conf.apf

RESV_DNS="1"

All SYSCTL options should be set to 1 EXCEPT for
SYSCTL_OVERFLOW="0"
SYSCTL_SYNCOOKIES="0"

USE_DS="1"
USE_AD="1"

FOR PLESK:

IG_TCP_CPORTS="20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,465,993,995,8443"
IG_UDP_CPORTS="37,53,873"

EGF="1"
EG_TCP_CPORTS="20,21,22,25,53,37,43,80,113,443,465,873"
EG_UDP_CPORTS="53,873"

For CPANEL:

IG_TCP_CPORTS="20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,993,995,2082,2083,20 86,2087,2095,2096"
IG_UDP_CPORTS="37,53,873"

EGF="1"
EG_TCP_CPORTS="20,21,22,25,37,53,43,80,113,443,465,873,2087,2089"
EG_UDP_CPORTS="53,873"

apf �s to start firewall.

If you are not kicked out of SSH and you can type commands after it loads, that means it�s installed correctly.

pico -w /etc/apf/ad/conf.antidos

LP_KLOG="1"

USR_ALERT="1"
USER = �root�
ARIN_ALERT="1"

pico -w /etc/apf/conf.apf

change DEVM to 0

apf -r

Install/Upgrade ProFTPd

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:22:32 +0000

Ensim
I'm not going to handle Ensim again since gpan made a nice Howto on this issue and even created
rpms for your usage all information can be found here.
After installing it you can also do the proftpd.conf tweak but you have todo pico -w /etc/proftpd.conf
note:
1. that i can't give any support on the rpm made by gpan, so that will have to go through him.
2. Mouse is against upgrading your ProFTPd on Ensim when you run a up to date 3.1.x and 3.5.x

Plesk
Nighthawk just said to me that this is actually a bad idea for Plesk.
Nighthawk has years of experience with Plesk so i fully support what he's saying about Plesk whatsoever .
So your officially warned by me and NightHawk so dont do this howto on your system.
You will destroy it otherwise but you can do the proftpd.conf tweak without a problem, so just skip most of this how-to and usage pico -w /etc/proftpd.conf instead just like Ensim.

Plain i didn't test this on cPanel but it needs to be able to run this as well, as far as i know

First we login to the machine through SSH.
We become superuser... we all know su - or sudo su does the trick.

Now we are going todo stuff

wget ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/sourc...pd-1.2.9.tar.gz

Now after recieving the tarball, we will extract it

tar -zxvf proftpd-1.2.9tar.gz

Now we move to the folder we just extracted

cd proftpd1.2.9

Now we need to configure ProFTPd

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd

Now we make the configure we just made.

make

Finally were going to install whatever we just made.

make install

-----------------------------------
ProFTPd 1.2.9 is now installed on your system. he four lines below are certain security measures that can be taken to hide the identity of ProFTPd.*These are optional, but recommended*

Now lets edit proftpd.conf

pico -w /usr/local/proftpd/etc/proftpd.conf

We add a line above ServerName

ServerIdent Off

Now we want to input a servername

ServerName "FTP Server" or put something else instead whatever you like
-----------------------------------

Stop your old ProFTPd (remember you have 2 proftpds now both old as new)

service proftpd stop or killall -9 proftpd

Start Your new ProFTPd

/usr/local/proftpd/sbin/proftpd

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All done, you should now have a successfully upgraded/installed proftpd configuration.

Small tip: if you want to loose your old proftpd after upgrade rpm remove it.