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Today, let us see how our support techs perform the same.

Nginx Catch-All Host For ISPConfig 3

In order to begin, our Support Techs recommend a fully functional Apache/Mysql server (s).

In addition, we need Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 13.x or Debian 6/7 server and functional installation of Isp Config 3.

• INSTALL AND CONFIGURE

First of all, the configuration is done on the principle of Catch All VHost. It encompasses all the sites in a single configuration.

The first thing we need to do here is to stop the apache service.

apache2 stop service

Then we will modify the ports in the apache configuration:

nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

NameVirtualHost *: 82

After that, we will modify all the virtualhosts that listen on port 80:

sed -ie ‘s / *: 80 / *: 82 / g’ /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.vhost

Eventually, we relaunch apache:

service apache2 start

Now, we need to test if the configuration is Ok. Normally, the port 80 should not appear:

netstat -tunap | grep apache2
tcp6 0 0 ::: 8080 ::: * LISTEN 3259 / apache2
tcp6 0 0 ::: 8081 ::: * LISTEN 3259 / apache2
tcp6 0 0 ::: 82 ::: * LISTEN 3259 / apache2
tcp6 0 0 ::: 443 ::: * LISTEN 3259 / apache2

Later, we modify the default templates of Isp Config for Apache.

To do so, first we will copy them to the custom conf folder:

cd / usr / local / ispconfig / server /
cp conf / apache_ispconfig.conf.master conf-custom /
cp conf / vhost.conf.master conf-custom /

Then we edit this file to replace port 80 with port 82:

nano /usr/local/ispconfig/server/conf-custom/apache_ispconfig.conf.master
—-> (variable “NameVirtualHost *:” at line 123)

This might lead to a problem because for the statistics tools, among other things … ALL the requests will come from address 127.0.0.1.

To solve this, we will install the rpaf mod:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-rpaf

Then we edit the apache configuration

nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

In addition, we add this at the end:

RPAFsethostname On
RPAFproxy_ips 127.0.0.1 IP_DE_YOUR_SERVEUR

Eventually, we restart Apache:

service apache2 restart

• UPDATE DEBIAN

Here, we start by updating the list of Debian sources. For that, we run:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then we add these sources after the repository:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ wheezy nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ wheezy nginx

To update the installation, we run:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Later, we install NGINX and stop it immediately:

apt-get install nginx
nginx stop service

Then, we go to the NGINX directory:

cd / etc / nginx /

And we edit the configuration of NGINX:

nano nginx.conf

Here, we only need to change the worker_processes to match the number of cores in the processor.

We save the edits.

Then we go to the conf.d folder:

cd conf.d

And we immediately squirt the default configuration:

rm default.conf

Then, re-create the default.conf file:

nano default.conf

We fill it with the following:

server {
listen 80 default;
server_name _;
server_name_in_redirect off;
resolver 127.0.0.1;
access_log /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/$host/nginx-access.log;

location ~ * ^ / var / www / $ host / web / (wp-content | wp-includes) / (. *) . (jpg | jpeg | gif | png | ico | css | zip | tgz | gz | rar | bz2 | doc | xls | exe | pdf | ppt | txt | tar | mid | css | midi | wav | bmp | rtf | js | swf | flv | html | htm | mp3 | mp4) $ {
root / var / www / $ host / web / (wp-content | wp-includes);
access_log off;
expires 30d;
set $ memcached_key “$ uri? $ args”;
memcached_pass 127.0.0.1:11211;
error_page 404 502 504 = @fallback;

}
location / {
root / var / www / $ host / web;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
access_log off;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:82;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $ remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $ host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $ proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}

Finally, we restart the server:

reboot

Once done, Nginx will activate on all the sites we created with Isp Config.

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Conclusion

In short, we saw how our Support Techs go about the Nginx Catch-All Host For ISPConfig 3 query.