ISPCONFIG 3 & Centos 6.4 - ALMOST right but...

I screwed up - I had installed centos 6.4 with a big home directory (and a small var one) and I forgot to wipe and resize it so I have everything WORKING now - but my /var is almost full

how can I have ISPCONFIG 3 to use /home instead of /var? safely without having to redo hours and hours and hours of work???
or maybe symlink it so that everything works without messing up the work?

*** BETTER PLAN - is there a safe and easy to resize the /home partition smaller (its 1.8TB) and the / partition bigger?
these are setup as being managed by lvm and are ext 4 from the centos 6.4 install I just did.
currently:
[root@ns9 /]# df -v
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_root
51606140 44038720 4945980 90% /
tmpfs 16471600 236 16471364 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 495844 62110 408134 14% /boot
/dev/sr0 1418348 1418348 0 100% /media/CentOS_6.4_Final
/dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home
1852386680 191026800 1567264112 11% /home

help would be appreciated - can I shrink vg_ns9-lv_home and increase the root partition?

I DONT want to lose everything and symlinks are a kludge at best - I know I should have made home small and / large, but can I salvage the situation?




thanks

ps love howtoforge I have been a subscriber before


UPDATED - problem solved.

use resize2fs and lvexpand as per the following:

# Unmount the filesystem and check its' LV
umount /home
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home

# Shrink ext4 and then the LV to the desired size
resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home 500G (reduce to 500gb)
lvreduce -L 500G /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home

# Before continuing, run e2fsck. If it bails because the partition
# is too small, don't panic! The LV can still be extended with
# lvextend until e2fsck succeeds, e.g.:
# lvextend -L +1G /dev/mapper/vg0-foo
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home <- checked ok

# Resize the filesystem to match the LVs size, check and mount it
resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_home
e2fsck -f /dev/mappervg_ns9-lv_home
mount /home

That was the tricky part. The rest is pretty straight forward:

unmount the filesystem,
extend the logical volume and
expand the filesystem afterwards.

umount /
<--- dont need to unmount root 6.4 can do it on the fly

# Extend the LV to use all free space
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_root
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg0-bar <- cant do mounted

# Resize the partition to fill the LV
resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg_ns9-lv_root
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg0-bar <- cant do mounted

sync;reboot! all is joyous and /var now has TONS of room (1.3TB)

 

moving right along - phpmyadmin??

I'm wondering how phpmyadmin access works - when I access one of the known sites (DNS and site entry properly) with
http://www.mysite.com/phpmyadmin

up pops an .htaccess type box as below demanding to know account and password. No account / password combo that I've tried works!

A username and password are being requested by http://www.mysite.com. The site says: "phpMyAdmin localhost"

After giving up it says access denied phpmyadmin 2.11.11.3

any ideas?

 

yet further advancement. anyone use net2ftp?

I found an install instruction set for ispconfig 3 but I dont understand one step says to edit a file that does not exist on my server..

...steps omitted....
23. cd /var/www/ispconfig/themes/default/css/screen
24. nano content_ispc.css or vi content_ispc.css



content_ispc.css I cant find anywhere. any light to shed?

 

phpmyadmin instructions

perfect server centos 6.4 ispconfig 3 apache 2.

and one more thing I installed pureftpd as per above installation and I find this in /var/log/messages:

----snip-----
un 26 06:36:22 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [NOTICE] /var/www/clients/client0/web11//web/index_htm_files/177.png uploaded (978 bytes, 363.58KB/sec)
Jun 26 06:36:43 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] Logout.
Jun 26 06:36:43 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] New connection from 192.168.2.1
Jun 26 06:36:43 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] justrightrealestateva is now logged in
Jun 26 06:36:43 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [NOTICE] /var/www/clients/client0/web11//web/index_htm_files/183.png uploaded (691 bytes, 302.19KB/sec)
Jun 26 06:37:04 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] Logout.
Jun 26 06:37:04 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] New connection from 192.168.2.1
Jun 26 06:37:04 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] justrightrealestateva is now logged in
Jun 26 06:37:04 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [NOTICE] /var/www/clients/client0/web11//web/index_htm_files/184.png uploaded (661 bytes, 104.30KB/sec)
Jun 26 06:37:25 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] Logout.
Jun 26 06:37:25 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] New connection from 192.168.2.1
Jun 26 06:37:25 ns9 pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] justrightrealestateva is now logged in
-------------snip-------------


pure-ftpd is recording a login and log out for EVERY file transferred. is this by design?? I was wondering why ftp upload was taking so long!
is there a setting somewhere that logs out after every upload?

 

ftp client issue

its the same client (built into a web development package) I've used for years. on other servers it uploads rapidly zip zip zip. here took a LONG time and that was in the log...
maybe a different ftp server rather than pure-ftp?
thanks.

One more thing (dont want to dig around in ispconfig source if there is a simple setting somewhere - the default is to list 15 websites etc per page under the sites list. can I change it to default to ALL?

thanks again!

ps LOVE ISPCONFIG3. gotten used to it in a short time.
now if I can only get net2ftp to work..

did you see the above question? net2ftp/ispconfig3 install instructions mention a file in the default screen css folder that does not exist.
any ideas?

 

ispconfig 3 installation instructions

the instructions were to integrate net2ftp with ispconfig 3, not the ispconfig 3 installation itself.

 

net2ftp integration

the documentation I've found claims success integrating with ispconfig3 - but they refer to a file I cannot find mentioned above.

var/www/ispconfig/themes/default/css/screen
24. nano content_ispc.css or vi content_ispc.css

any idea what the content_ispc.css file is? and why its not in my installation?
should it be? is it from an older version of ispconfig (though the docs claim success with ispconfig3!)

 

alternate ftp server

if I want to try something other than pure ftpd whats your second choice? working with ispconfig3 of course!

 

more on net2ftp - and that file

it seems the content_ispc.css exists under the default-304 tree, not the default tree under themes.
why are there the 2 trees? and can I simply rename them to make default-304 the default one and see if that works?
thanks

 

sorry missed your reply abot

I guessed it was default-304 contains the file and the version says its version 3.04 of ispconfig3.

if I wanted to put this (that used to go into the content_ispc.css file)

.icons16.icoWebFTP { background-image: url("../../icons/x16/folder_open.png"); }

in a css file in the current setup where would it be appropriate?
thanks

 

ok I'll try experimenting

I'll try and play with it to see if I can incorporate without breaking ISPCONFIG.

meanwhile is there any other web-ftp type package that IS supported?

thanks
and again LOVE ISPCONFIG. now if only there were some batch commands

 

ISPCONFIG - net2ftp information

I've largely got net2ftp working and integrated have to clean it up a abit I'll post some updated information in the appropriate thread...

and I'll look at the scripts - JUST as I got done moving over 77 sites and creating everything manually NOW I see there are scripts. me bad.
ISPCONFIG is great...

 

DNS allow transfers??

I'm changing the BIND setup and need all dns entries to allow zone transfers to my backup dns server -
but when I add the IP in under ISPCONFIG in a given dns entry on the 'allow transfers' config line and save it it does not seem to ever get written back to named.conf.local. only if I go in and manually edit that line do we get the desired result.
is there a time period? when does ISPCONFIG update the file? did I just not wait long enough?

I'm curious as I want to allow ALL my zones to transfer to this ip. should I add an allow-transfers into named.conf and would that cover ALL zones??
currently EACH zone has a allow-transers {none;} line currently.

or do I need to manually enter all through ISPCONFIG? and if so when is the update written back to named.conf.local?

or do I need to manually enter them into named.conf.local?

thanks!