far fetched setup

Hi there ,!

well after a few months i have installed ispconfig 3 , i thought id start by saying thank you in advance for a great and wonderfull product .. ispconfig3 !!

keep up the works!..

after a piece of cake install on any server i might add ( tested it on 5 machines) and all on lenny worked like a charm ..

so now for my newly and definative setup i have created :

2 ISPconfig machines ( identical machines in hardware/ 2x hp dl360)
1 Freenas machine 4 TB mirrored storage
1 Maia machine 300GB storage ( dl380)

the maia / and ispconfig machines have 2 nics and internal and external ips
the nas only has an internal adres .

what i would like :
a client creates a domain , ispconfig will create the domain ( site ) on the freenas server , and the ( email , if selected when antispam has been given , created on the maia machine )
( one step futher is that the other ispmachine will take over when the isp1 machine is down )

the reason im asking this if the ispconfig machines only have 32gb space while the freenas has more then enough to host some sites.

i have followed the guide how to forge ispconfig 3 , and
installing-maia-mailguard-on-debian-lenny & virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-debian-lenny

can someone help me with pointing me into the right direction to :

- make ispconfig create the client WEBdirs on the NAS ( it does not have a mount yet and no data on it )

- make ispconfig create the client EMail on the MAIA server

i could also settle for implementing maia on ispconfig 3 , but the storage must then be on the NAS..

and maybe finally make the 2nd ispconfig server a backup of the 1st

 

Till ,

Thanks!,

however maia is on a seperate machine and i used the guides to install maia on THAT machine not on the ISPConfig Machines, is there another way or another distri for antispam i could use , to let my clients administer their email spam?

and mounting the NAS as /var/www/ will that not be hazardous when using the backup isp3 config machine ?

 

Till,

Thanks for your quick reply ..

i know ispconfig uses amavis , i know maia also uses amavis , however i want my clients to have a webinterface to read their spam .. and give them control over their domain .. so that they can release non-spam or access that remotely

maia has the webinterface to release spam and re-queue that for their mail ..

about the nas , ill try that later on maybe mounting machine A:

machine A /var/www -->/nas/isp1
machine B /var/www -->/nas/isp2

 

after a search on mounting the nas drive im curious .. how to i mount my nas as /var/www

mount -t smbfs //10.10.10.1/DISK /mnt/test

works .. now only to use it as /var/www without distroying the current directory on the server

 

i understand that you want an external mailscanner- however to be able to manage a thing like that you would have to manualy update acconts for it as ispconfig cant do it atomatic.

therefore i would recomend you think this through, do you either want easy management, on your side, (and live with not having the maia extentions,

or must it have maia - but require you to update the accounts by hand,

there may be a semi- automated solution if the external system allow for mail-based- authentication, (requiring users to login with thair email account onse and reply to a confirmation email (of some sort).

the other sulution ofcaurse its just using a 3 server setup (3x ispconfig).

however, running 2 websservers is nice, but in that case you might want to investigate some load balancing, (there are many options including round-robin).

you also should invest in a 2nd NAS,