The Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 5 (64-bit)

Is there really such a thing as a perfect Linux setup? Well that depends on your needs I guess. For many, the following offers all that they could hope for…

This is a detailed description how to set up a Fedora Core 5 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Fedora Core 5, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well.

I will use the following software:

* Web Server: Apache 2.0.x
* Database Server: MySQL 5.0
* Mail Server: Postfix (easier to configure than sendmail; has a shorter history of security holes than sendmail)
* DNS Server: BIND9 (chrooted!)
* FTP Server: proftpd
* POP3/IMAP server: dovecot
* Webalizer for web site statistics

In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box)…. Source: HowToForge

[tags]fedora core,ispconfig,security holes,webalizer[/tags]