Since ISPConfig 3.2.12, the password can be reset using ispc command: Reset the password of the admin user. The command is: ispc user set-password admin ISPConfig before 3.2.12 On older systems, you can use the following method to temporarily setting a new password. If you lost your ISPConfig 3 administrator password, you can reset it ... Read more
This tutorial shows how you can build your own custom template for the PDF invoices in the ISPConfig billing module. The custom template will be update-safe, so you don't have to worry that your modifications will vanish on ISPConfig or Billing Module update. What we will do I will create a new custom template with ... Read more
pSome internet access providers have port 25 disabled in their routers to prevent spam. If you run your own email server in a data center, you might have to enable the submission port (587) in postfix to be able to send emails from your local email client to your own mail server. Enable Submission Port ... Read more
The Nginx web server has a max. body size limit of 1 MB for requests as default. This might be too low for file uploads in scripts and you will see the following error message when you try to upload a file: 413 Request Entity Too Large The configuration variable for this option is "client_max_body_size" ... Read more
When using a custom docroot in the custom Apache directives field in ISPConfig, the /stats folder becomes inaccessible. An easy way to make it accessible again is by using an alias. Add the following Apache directives into the custom directives field of the website in ISPConfig: Alias "/stats" "{DOCROOT_CLIENT}/stats" Thanks to Thom for providing the ... Read more
If you run a firewall on your Linux server and want to use passive FTP connections, you have to define the passive port range in pure-ftpd and your firewall to ensure that the connections don't get blocked. The following example is for pure-ftpd on Debian or Ubuntu Linux and ISPConfig 3. Set Passive Port Range ... Read more
The ISPConfig update script is an easy way to update an ISPConfig 3 installation. If you want to make a manual backup of ISPConfig, see the instructions at the end of the article. This tutorial applies to ISPConfig 3.0, ISPConfig 3.1, and also ISPConfig 3.2. To update ISPConfig 3, log in as root user on ... Read more
The following article describes the steps that need to be taken to debug ISPConfig 3 server scripts. This procedure applies to all ISPConfig 3 versions incl. ISPConfig 3.1 and ISPConfig 3.2. Enable the debug Loglevel in ISPConfig Login to the ISPConfig interface and set the log level to Debug under System > System > Server ... Read more
I've got the following error message on Debian Linux with Courier IMAP server: Filesystem notification initialization error -- contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library) when I tried to access an IMAP share. The reason for the problem seems to be that the "fam" package was not working correctly. The ... Read more
More and more internet access providers are closing port 25 to reduce spam except for connections to their own mail servers. If you run your own email server and have problems connecting to it on port 25, you can enable port 465 (SMTPS) in postfix as a workaround. Edit the /etc/postfix/master.cf file: nano /etc/postfix/master.cf and ... Read more