Comments on: A SUCCESSFULL installation guide to VHCS2 on Debian Etch (4.0)

By: DiGiGoth

DiGiGoth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:46:56 +0000

ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:/var/www/vhcs2/engine$ sudo /var/www/vhcs2/engine/setup/./vhcs2-setup
ERROR: File ‘/etc/vhcs2/vhcs2.conf’ does not exist !

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:27:21 +0000

Regarding Chris’ entry dated 9-10-07
He said (in part) After setup script installed I received just a blank page. Only time I can receive something was when I would make a up a url in the vhcs2 folder like /vhcs2/bla.php/ it would give a 404 page not found within vhcs. This is my situation as well. I receive a blank white page. If I do a “View Page Source”, this is the content of the page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Helper

Helper — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:31:55 +0000

I would like to inform everybody that vhcs2 does not work on debian 5.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:35:26 +0000

i have just followed this guide and everything is setup and running but i cannot access the webserver any ideas to this ?

By: SteveF

SteveF — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:06:35 +0000

Thanks for this writeup guimeau. Thanks also to Bjorn, Fabio and Helper

I wanted to add that I required add the following line into /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Include /etc/proftpd/modules.conf

I added it just under the user/group lines.

hope this helps.

By: Helper

Helper — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:57:59 +0000

There a errors in this tutorial. Read these points to fix them.

Maildir question:
The tutorial does not indicate what you should answer at the question ‘Continue installing libc-client without Maildir support?’ I indicated Yes and it has worked so far.

Proftpd:
ServerIdent on .FTP Server Ready.
Should be
ServerIdent on “.FTP Server Ready.”

cd /tmp/vhcs2-2.4.7.1
Should be
cd /tmp/vhcs-2.4.7.1

Webmail:
Edit /var/www/vhcs2/gui/tools/webmail/inc/inc.php and delete the “\r\n” from lines 153 and 154

There also seems to be a very serious security flaw in the admin section. Your vhcs installation can easily be hacked by hackers. To prevent this, add a ip filter on the admin section. This does require advance knowledge of apache.

By: david

david — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:10:08 +0000

Please add this to the apache set up part.

# a2enmod php5

mine was not enabled and gave me a headache.
So I go this “download PHTML file” box and
could not run php pages.

But the rest of the tutorial worked.

By: lannet

lannet — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:06 +0000

i finish my istallation and when i put to my explorer
my ip with /vhcs2
i see to my screen only this Index of /vhcs2
and some directory

what’s going rong?

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:32:26 +0000

@Allan

Try to repair your database that should fix the problem

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:58:28 +0000

We have an debian web server with VHCS2 Its works great, but from a few days ago, when i log in the administrator user give the error:
Table ‘./vhcs2/domain_traffic’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired

I’m unable to log and make any change in my domains..

Please HELP !!!!

Any help appreciated!
ALLAN – San José Costa Rica

By: Norio

Norio — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:11:07 +0000

Great tutorial and great comments guys! You’ve all saved me hours of work!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:51:06 +0000

My install falls over at the point of network configuration. after completing I’m unable to run apt-get (failure to resolve debian.planetmirror.org)

Here is a copy of my /etc/network/interfaces, any hints?

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.220
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.221
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Any help appreciated!
Simon

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:54:50 +0000

This comment help me after some hours trying to change vftp password :
Apparently, the VHCS2 installer put proftpd.conf in /etc/, but in Debian Etch it should be inside /etc/proftpd/, another thing that I needed was adding the line.

By: Fabio

Fabio — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:42:00 +0000

Hi All,
this maybe can help Murphy and Flo:

when you cut and paste instructions from this howto (above) pay attention that in perl code you must use normal
hypenation while in this “html generated page” you would cut a back-hypen (I really don’t know the english name of it … I hope to be clear, anyway, look around below line 1408 inside /var/www/vhcs2/engine/vhcs2_common_code.pl and use the SAME hypenation that already is in the perl script …

Another thing:
if when finished the setup, all work but webmail, go inside /var/www/vhcs2/gui/tools/webmail/inc/inc.php
and delete the “\r\n” from lines 153 and 154.

good luck!
Fabio

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:04:03 +0000

Hi
for the one had also this problem this is the solition. It worked for me
go to
# cd /etc/proftpd/
and change the file proftpd.conf to proftpd2.conf
just for backup.

then copy the file
# cd /etc/proftpd.conf
to
# cd /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

then you edit this to the proftpd.conf file

UseIPv6 off
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on “FTP Server Ready”

(see manual)

and at last you restart proftpd with

etc/init.d/proftpd restart

If you get no errors then it should work.

Good luck

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:04:15 +0000

Hi verry nice article!
everything works except for one thing is the proftp.
It starts
Client connects to the server
But this is what i get next:

Response: 530 Login incorrect.
Error: Unable to connect!

I also took the changes from fabio but it didnt work..
I really want to use VHCS and the ftp has to word else its useless.

Anyone that fixed this problem?

Greetz Bjorn
the netherlands

By: Viktor

Viktor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:50:38 +0000

Thanks Fabio, great help

By: Flo

Flo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:58:22 +0000

he i have the same thing like Murphy.

only difference in mine installation is that i use php4…

By: Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:59:53 +0000

Hi all. Followed everything to the letter and after running ./vhcs2-setup and filling in the details, I get the following. I have no idea what to do beyond this point. Any help would be greatly apprciated.

Mike Murphy

Can’t exec “keysize”: No such file or directory at /var/www/vhcs2/engine/setup/../vhcs2_common_code.pl line 14 08, line 8.
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /var/www/vhcs2/engine/setup/../vhcs2_common_code.pl line 1408, line 8.
Please provide an encryption/decryption passphrase or key using -key at /var/www/vhcs2/engine/setup/../vhcs2_c ommon_code.pl line 1408

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:26 +0000

I followed it exactly and while running the setup script I receive this error after entering admins email:
ERROR: External command ‘/usr/bin/mysql –user=USER –pass=PASSWORD/tmp/db.sql.stdout 2>/tmp/db.sql.stderr’ returned ‘1′ status !

Anyone know how to resolve that?

Before I saw this install guide, I attempted to this install and finally got everything working but when trying to access the site after setup script installed I recieved just a blank page, even when trying to access the /admin/ section. Only time I could recieve something was when I would make a up a directory in teh vhcs2 folder like /vhcs2/sdad/ it would give a page not found within vhcs.