Vqadmin is simply a nice web based interface that will let us manage
Vpopmail. Through the interface we can create new domains, new users,
net quotas, enable services and much more.
So let's install it...
cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf vqadmin-2.3.6.tar.gz
cd vqadmin-2.3.6
./configure --enable-cgibindir=/home/local/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/home/local/www
(Example: ./configure --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/var/www/html )
make && make install-strip
If the installation is successfull, Vqadmin should install itself in
the cgi-bin directory of your default website. Unless you tell it
otherwise, that usually defaults to /var/www/cgi-bin. You can specify
another location in the ./configure command above.
Now you will need to add the following to your server's Apache
configuration file (usually httpd.conf)
<Directory "/path/to/your/cgi-bin/vqadmin">
deny from all
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order deny,allow
</Directory>
In addition, within the Apache master config file you will want to set the "AllowOveride" option to "All". Example: AllowOverride All
cd /home/local/cgi-bin/vqadmin
Now you will want to create a .htaccess file to password protect the
Vqadmin interface. There should already be a .htaccess file in the
vqadmin directory, so all you need to do is configure it. We'll use the
ever useful vi editor for this.
vi .htaccess
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/local/conf/.htpasswd
AuthName vQadmin
require valid-user
satisfy any
chown apache .htaccess (you may need to change the chown to either "nobody", "apache" or "www" etc., depending on what user your installation of Apache is running as)
chmod 644 .htaccess
Now you need to create a corresponding .htpasswd file that's going to
contain the username and encrypted password for the Vqadmin
administrator...
htpasswd
-bc /home/local/conf/.htpasswd admin admin_password
chmod
644 /home/local/conf/.htpasswd
Question: But what if I want to user another username other than "admin"?
Answer:: You will notice that in the above line, I'm adding an admin
user called "admin". The name of the user needs to be "admin" because
that is the username which Vqadmin sets up by default to have full
admin rights. If you want to use a username other than "admin", you
will need to edit the /cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.acl file and add your
custom user to that file along with whatever rights you want it to
have. Within that file, you will see where the user called "admin" is
already set up to have all rights. That line looks like this:
admin VIMUDCA admin1user
In this line, the "admin" part specifies the username, the "VIMUDCA"
part specifies that user's rights (a chart of all the possible rights
is right above this line), and the "admin1user" part specifies the
common name for the user which will be displayed when you log into
Vqadmin. The common name is purely for aesthetic purposes.
Now restart Apache...
apachectl
stop
apachectl
start
If all has gone well, you should now be able to browse (in your web
browser) to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi
Note: make sure you include "vqadmin.cgi" in the path or you will get a
403 forbidden error!
Enter the user "admin" and whatever password your assigned it.
You should now see the Vqadmin interface. Go ahead and add a new domain
to your server! Pretty cool, huh? The "postmaster" user serves as the
admin user for any new domain and we will use it to log into
Qmailadmin, when we install that. As soon as we complete the install,
that domain will be instantly able to get mail (assuming the MX is
correctly pointing to your server). The nice thing about Vpopmail and
Vqadmin is that you do not need to restart anything after you add a
domain. Once you add it, it simply works! We're almost done!
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