httpd fails on start with bad user name ispapps error after Perfect Server ISPconfig3

Hey guys,

I just did a full walk nice and slow with the ISP3config on Centos x64 5.5
and pre ispconfig binary install, I was getting all daemons up and getting a IMAP Server Connection refused error when I tried logging in with my user - is there something I need to edit to get rid of this bad user name error that is killing httpd ?


the error is

Starting httpd: httpd: bad user name ispapps
[FAILED]


Thank you,

 

Is ispapps used somewhere in your Apache configuration? Does that user exist in /etc/passwd?

 

I could not find ispapps user anywhere neither getmail or ispconfig as well - so I created these three users and httpd could start again, but webmail (squirrelmail) is broken now, phpmyadmin and ispconfig all have error messages that say I don't have the rights to / - when I test urls, I have done this part of the how-to three times all with the same ispapps bad user name thing. I think the ispconfig3 installer is broken.

what are the requisites for ispconfig dedicated setup?

 

Same Problem

Hi everybody!

I' ve get the same problem, the user doesn't exist in /etc/passwd, has anybody found out what todo or is the only way to dumb the ispConfig installation?

thx for answers!

 

Which distribution do you use?

 

centos 5.5 x86_64

centos 5.5 x86_64

 

Seems to be a CentOS problem. I've added this to our bugtracker.

 

above post did not resolve problem:

error message no longer says "httpd: bad user name ispapps"

current error message is "httpd: bad user name ispconfig"

on a side note, following the post above spit out:
aseradd: warning: the home directory already exists.
Not copying any file from skel directory into it.

I can see what the problem is on my installation.
$command = "useradd -g ispconfig -d $install_dir ispconfig";

in order for this to work on my centos 5.5 install it would need to say
/usr/sbin/useradd -g...

in the howto i had to add /sbin/ in front of the chkconfig commands:
/sbin/chkconfig...

so now I am tracking down what $install_dir =
to do the groupadd/useradd
looks like = /usr/local/ispconfig

that allowed me to start apache but current error is:
[warn] NameVirtualHost *.80 has no VirtualHosts

Default Apache page pulls up at
http://myipaddress

Error Message pulls up at
http://myipaddress:8080

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

 

I am logged in as an unprivileged user using su

Does it matter if ISPConfig is executed logged in as root or with su?

In any event I tried to run update.php and immediately after being prompted for root mysql password I get this:

Possible problem with dumping the database. We will stop here. Please check the file existing_db.sql

 

Try to log in directly as root.