I was installing ISPConfig3. I was able to complete all of the required steps until I actually start to install ispconfig from install.php file. When I type in the command "php -q install.php" it gives me the following errors. which: no apache in (/sbin:/user/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/urs/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/jv,/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin) also I get the same error repeated with the following in the place of "apache" and the same paths as mentioned above apache2, httpd, couriertcpd, saslauthd, amavisd-new, jk_chrootsh. when I continue with the installation it lets me enter the necessary information then it installs it but gives me the following error. PHP Warning: call-time pass-by-referance has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of fsockopen(). if you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call-time_pass_reference to true in your INI files in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/mods-available/monitor_core_module.inc.php on line 1236 this message is repeated again and then it is repeated twice again with the line number 1248 when I restart my computer it shows an error on xconsole saying "error connecting to MySQL server at localhost: can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) (errno=2) I have zero clue what's going on.
This means that you dont have apache installed and some other deamons like mysql are missing too. Please follow exactly the installation instructions for ispconfig 3 which can be found in the ispconfig3 tar.gz file to prepare your server befor you try to install ispconfig 3.
Till, Thanks a lot for taking time to help me out. As you mentioned I have installed all those mentioned missing stuff. When i look for the status of them they indicate as "Running". So I doubt that it is the problem. However when I installed pam_mysql and tried to setup the password as mentioned in the tutorial, it gave me some error. when i typed in "mysqladmin -u root password mypassword" and "mysqladmin -h ispconfig.local -root password mypassword" it gave me an error saying cannot connect. Does this have to do anything with the above mentioned? Do you happen to know a better tutorial than the Installation Instruction document provided with ISPConfig 3 by any chance?
here's what i get for "netstat -tap" Active internet connections (servers and establishes) Proto - have tcp for all lines Recv-Q - have 0 for all lines Send-Q - have 0 for all lines Local Address - *:mysql , *.sunrpc , *:ssh , localhost:ipp , localhost:smtp , *:imaps , *op3s , *op3 , *:imap , *:ssh , *:ssh , localhost:ipp , localhost:smtp Foreign address - have *:* for all the lines State - LISTEN for all lines PID/Program Name have - 5214/mysqld , 2842/portmap , 2805/sshd , 2856/cupsd , 4508/master , 5374/couriertcpd , 5348/couriertcpd , 5303/couriertcpd , 5318/couriertcpd , 2805/sshd , 4508/master I also started a new installation from scartch. here's the error that i have been getting when i typed in "mysqladmin -h ispconfig.local -u root password abc123" the error is : "mysqladmin: connect to server at 'ispconfig.local' failed. error: 'Lost connection to MySql server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110' " when i continue the installation process ignoring the above message i get the following at when i try to start pure-ftpd when i type in "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start" the following error comes up starting pure-ftpd421 unknown authentication method: pam startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd: 252 failed
i have attached some of the screen shots at www.anushanw.info/images/ispconfig/ thanks for all the help