After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I've got Lenny installed following the Perfect server w/ISPConfig3 guide. Now, how do I access the login page to upload/create my website? How about the SquirrelMail? I can't log into that either. I KNOW I'm not configuring something correctly. I can only access the ISPConfig admin interface by using my LAN IP (192.168.1.30:8080). I've got my domain name from No-IP and successfully forwarding to my server. I've setup a website in ISPConfig and can access the "Welcome to your website" page by using "www.mydomain.com". "www.mydomain.com:81" times out with no option to login and setup a website. How do I setup SquirrelMail? I haven't a clue on that... Lastly, is there some way that I can set things up so I can log into my ISPConfig interface with "subdomain.mydomain.com"? Ultimately, I'm wanting the following: subdomain.mydomain.com to get into my server from any computer outside my network. mydomain.com access from outside my network so I can actually get my website up and running. mail.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/webmail to access SquirrelMail. TIA for the help and patience with this Linux dropout...
See page 5 of the tutorial you used: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-lenny-ispconfig3-p5 "Afterwards you can access ISPConfig 3 under http://server1.example.com:8080/ or http://192.168.0.100:8080/. Log in with the username admin and the password admin (you should change the default password after your first login):" Same page in the howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-lenny-ispconfig3-p5 I KNOW I'm not configuring something correctly. ISPConfig runs on port 8080 and not port 81, so you can access it with www.mydomain.com:8080. You seem to mix up ispconfig 2 and ispconfig 2 which are completely different softwatr packages. From the tutorial: "Afterwards you can access SquirrelMail under http://server1.example.com/webmail or http://192.168.0.100/webmail:" No, at least not by default. But you can create a website for subdomain.mydomain.com in ispconfig and then use apache rewrite rules to forward the incoming requests to port 8080, but thats nothing what you should try as a Linux beginner as apache rewriting is not that easy when you start.
You misunderstand me I think. I can access the SquirrelMail login page, but NOTHING I type in actually logs me in... How do I actually configure it/set it up in ISPConfig? I've got access to the main ISPConfig admin page from the tut. (192.168.1.30:8080) Server1.example.com:8080 times out. I have no access with that method. I'm now needing to know how & where a "client user" would login to actually upload the content of his/her website. As for the apache rewriting thing, is there a tut for it? I'd really like to be able to access the server from the outside. Everything I've been reading from the ISPConfig website talks about ISPConfig2. Where is the same documentation for ISPConfig3?
there is no configuration needed. The login is the email address and the password of this email address. then you have not setup Server1.example.com correctly in the hosts file of your workstation, this has nothing to do with ispconfig itself. The client user uses the same login form then the admin. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html There is no documentation for ISPConfig 3 available. ISPConfig 3 is a prerelease (development version) and has no documentation except the installation instructions
OK, so it's the email address I setup in the ISPConfig backend? Right, but WHERE/HOW do they upload content? I see nothing to do so... You're kidding me!? Damnit, I knew I should have went with ISPConfig2... Tell me, they've got some updated documentation in the works, yes?
yes. Content is uploaded with a FTP client of your choice as with every hosting account. ISPconfig is a hosting control panel were you create the FTP account but it is not a ftp client. No, not yet. Maybe in a few months.
OK, after setting up an email address in the ISPConfig backend, I still cannot log into the webmail. Also, why doesn't mail.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/webmail work? I (thought, at least) that I set that up in the backend as well.
Then there is a configuration error on your server. Take a look at the mail log to get the detailed error message. Did you setup a DNS A-Record mail.mydomain.com in the dns server of the domain mydomain.com that points to the IP address of your server and did you wait about 24 hours until the dns chnages propagated?
Where is the mail log? I see none in ISPConfig. Yes, mail.mydomain.com is forwarded to my server's IP as DNS Host (A).
