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Information / Re: [Poll] What is your current OS version?

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:19:35 AM »

CentOS 7.9.2009 (Core) on 3x production servers. My EOL plan is to migrate to AlmaLinux in roughly ~1 year.
CentOS Stream can float merrily down its own stream...

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Installation / Re: mail server only

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:17:02 AM »

I can't stress enough how important rDNS is for mail delivery. I moved a VM from one co-located server to another. One static IP to another. The move went off without a hitch and updating the server's internal IP references and the new IP in the DNS let it takeover service. But mail delivery was significantly hampered for several days until the network engineering could get a valid rDNS (PTR record) in place. Every bounce or deferred message in the mail queue was pertaining to rDNS. Once the rDNS was set, mail began to flow normally.

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CentOS-WebPanel GUI / Re: Error with CWP User Panel

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:12:02 AM »

Is this universal on your server -- any user account cannot login? Or just certain ones? And you can login to the CWP Admin Panel as root just fine? How about SSH?

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PHP / Re: can't install new php version on PHP-FPM

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:10:00 AM »

Further, I would suggest you turn on auto-updates to your PHP versions so you get bug fixes and security updates automatically. Although at this point PHP 7.4 is EOL and I would only ever anticipate a critical hotfix if it came under active exploit -- but even that is highly unlikely.

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Installation / Re: HOME SERVER QUESTION

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:07:25 AM »

I would say give it a try, but I only have personal experience with static IPs and business-class internet that specifically provides for servers in the user agreement. Some ISPs specifically block :443 and :80, as well as port 25 (SMTP).

For a home web server, you wouldn't need rDNS. And if your IP is essentially static or changes only rarely, you may be able to get away with dynamic DNS. I would definitely recommend running your DNS under Cloudflare since changes propagate worldwide in seconds. You'd want to have short TTLs set up in your use case for all DNS records.

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E-Mail / Re: Roundcube login redirects to blank page

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:01:58 AM »

Good to hear! rcshaff's advice is (as always), spot on. Try :2096 (HTTPS), :2095 (HTTP), disable the firewall or specifically whitelist your IP address, disable any ad blockers or privacy tracking plugins in your web browser, try Private Browsing mode, try another web browser, use a VPN -- all these are basic steps if you have connection issues with any of CWP's HTTP/HTTPS-accessible services.

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Updates / Re: Update help support for CWP PRO

« on: March 09, 2023, 08:57:52 AM »

Is that a message generally to the staff? Only a few attend this forum, so it's a bit like shouting into the void.
But as unpaid, loosely affiliated CWP community members, we are glad to offer any support or advice we can. Did you have a specific question that we could help you with?

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Installation / Re: HOME SERVER QUESTION

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:31:31 PM »

I suppose you could script it -- periodically query an outside DNS check then feed that result back into CWP's configs. What services would you be running?

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Information / Re: Roundcube version

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:29:58 PM »

His instructions worked on 2x of my CWP servers, but I did get an error on one of them. I can't recall offhand how I resolved it, but can you post the error here to jog my memory?

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Installation / Re: mail server only

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:27:58 PM »

From my experience, a valid FQDN and rDNS are the paramount factors for mail delivery, as well as proper SPF records. DKIM is spottily applied out there and not as well understood, so it doesn't tend to be a make-or-break factor for successful delivery. But if your mail server is on a dynamically assigned IP block, you will tend to be blocked by various DNSBL, so hopefully you are looking to do this on a static IP address and can get rDNS assigned by your provider.

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CentOS 7 Problems / Re: Migration CWP -> CWP doesn't work...

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:24:56 AM »

Sometimes the little things are the ones that get you! Stumped by some niggling detail until you realize what you missed, after staring at it for far too long!

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Installation / Re: mail server only

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:23:15 AM »

You can, for sure run a mail-only server. Probably the easiest thing would be to only allow the mail ports with CSF -- 25,465,587,110,143,993,995, as well as SSH and CWP ports. Don't allow any other standard ports (FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.). And you could disable other services permanently so nothing auto-starts with the server.

And as you said, configure DNS appropriately and the MX and SPF records and you should be good.

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Information / Re: CentOS Configuration File Locations (CWP)

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:15:58 AM »

Sorry, but I trust my own methods and intuition for customization over CWP's automated & buggy toolset. Hopefully it will improve with time, but I feel it to be beta quality at its current level.

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Apache / Re: I am thinking of using mod pagespeed in Apache. Do you think it's a good idea?

« on: March 06, 2023, 07:11:30 AM »

Living up to your name, eh?

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Apache / Re: Not all sites (Wordpress) are accessible

« on: March 06, 2023, 07:09:47 AM »

CWP tries to be all / do all and fit most use cases. I think if you want max performance for the least effort, Nginx has proven to be the best for me on one heavy server. To ABSOLUTELY milk the most out of a particular server hardware, you would want to add Varnish into the mix (if you have fast storage and/or gobs of RAM). But bang for your buck is definitely in the Nginx side of things.

https://kinsta.com/blog/nginx-vs-apache/