Syscp to Foxlor move on Ubuntu 12.10 with high security.
Today i switched our (mine and my uncles) WebServer from
- SysCP (modified by me), apache2, apache2-mpm-itk, libapache2-mod-php5, proftpd
To:
- Froxlor (git master), nginx, php5-fpm, vsftpd (with libpam-mysql and libnss-mysql-bg)
I had nginx with php5-fpm running as second install, i also have it running on a high volume website. It's a dream!
This is a shared web Server so i tought a lot about its security (which we had before by mpm-itk).
The main thing to think about was PHP, there are a lot bugs in PHP written Software and "crackers"
love to hack PHP Sites.
The Solution for this was for us to run one php5-fpm for every customer, froxlor makes it easy to do so.
First replace ProFTPd with vsftpd with libpam-mysql ( libpam-ldap for a bug ), stolen here.
apt-get install vsftpd libpam-mysql libpam-ldap
Replace /etc/pam.d/vsftpd (still with the syscp backend):
auth required pam_mysql.so user=syscp passwd=<YOUR_MYSQL-SYSCP_PASSWORD> host=localhost db=syscp table=ftp_users usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password [where=login_enabled="Y"] crypt=1 verbose=1
account required pam_mysql.so user=syscp passwd=<YOUR_MYSQL-SYSCP_PASSWORD> host=localhost db=syscp table=ftp_users usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password [where=login_enabled="Y"] crypt=1 verbose=1`
Replace /etc/vsftpd.conf:
listen=YES
dual_log_enable=YES
log_ftp_protocol=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
check_shell=NO
virtual_use_local_privs=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pam_service_name=vsftpd
guest_username=www-data
guest_enable=NO
chroot_local_user=YES
hide_ids=YES
write_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
# local_root=/var/kunden/webs/$USER
# See: http://www.benscobie.com/fixing-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot/
# allow_writeable_chroot=YES
user_sub_token=$USER
nopriv_user=www-data
Restart vsftpd:
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Test it with your local ftp client.
Install Froxlor
apt-get install git
cd /var/kunden/webs/Server
git clone https://github.com/Froxlor/Froxlor webadmin.<yourdomain.com>
Create /etc/nginx/sites-available/webadmin.<yourdomain.com> ( i have the “upstream” php5-fpm defined somewhere else ).
server {
listen <your_ip>:80;
server_name webadmin.<yourdomain.com>;
root /var/kunden/webs/Server/webadmin.<yourdomain.com>;
index index.html index.php;
charset utf-8;
location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xls)$ {
access_log off;
expires 30d;
}
location / {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php$1 last;
}
location ~ "^(.+\.php)(.*)$" {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_pass php5-fpm;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Enable the config, test it and restart nginx.
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/webadmin.<yourdomain.com> /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/001-webadmin.<yourdomain.com>
nginx -t
/etc/init.d/nginx restart
See this guide on howto upgrade from syscp to froxlor:
(i did it my way tm - installed froxlor, then i replaced the db with the one from syscp)
Now go to http://webadmin.yourdomain.com and migrate the syscp data,
after the migration you should configure the webserver to nginx.
Froxlor - nginx settings:
[](http://rene.jochums.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/froxlor-nginx-settings.jpg)
Froxlor - phpfpm settings:
Run cron_tasks.php for the first time and check its output for errors:
/usr/bin/php -q /var/kunden/webs/Server/webadmin.<your-domain.com>/scripts/cron_tasks.php
Create a new MySQL user "vsftpd" and give him
SELECT rights on the tables **froxlor.ftp_users**,** froxlor.ftp_groups**
Replace /etc/pam.d/vsftpd again (now with the froxlor backend)
Restart vsftpd:
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Test with your local ftp client.
Can’t remember why but i had to replace libnss-mysql with libnss-mysql-bg
This is the config /etc/libnss-mysql.cfg for it if you need it.
getpwnam SELECT username,'x',uid,gid,'MySQL User',homedir,shell \
FROM ftp_users \
WHERE username='%1$s' \
ORDER BY id ASC \
LIMIT 1
getpwuid SELECT username,'x',uid,gid,'MySQL User',homedir,shell \
FROM ftp_users \
WHERE uid='%1$u' \
ORDER BY id ASC
LIMIT 1
getspnam SELECT username,password,'1','0','99999','0','0','-1','0' \
FROM ftp_users \
WHERE username='%1$s' \
ORDER BY id ASC
LIMIT 1
getpwent SELECT username,'x',uid,gid,'MySQL User',homedir,shell \
FROM ftp_users
getspent SELECT username,password,'1','0','99999','0','0','-1','0' \
FROM ftp_users
getgrnam SELECT groupname,'empty',gid \
FROM ftp_groups \
WHERE groupname='%1$s' \
LIMIT 1
getgrgid SELECT groupname,'empty',gid \
FROM ftp_groups \
WHERE gid='%1$u' \
LIMIT 1
getgrent SELECT groupname,'empty',gid \
FROM ftp_groups
memsbygid SELECT members \
FROM ftp_groups \
WHERE gid='%1$u'
gidsbymem SELECT gid \
FROM ftp_groups \
WHERE groupname='%1$s'
host localhost
database vsftpd
username vsftpd
password <your-vsftpd-pass-here>
/etc/libnss-mysql-root.cfg
username vsftpd password <your-vsftpd-pass-here>