zenspider.com by ryan davis

Lets say you just had to register imadork.com. What do you do?

Basic Overview

• Register it w/ your favorite registrar. (anything but verisign!)
• Add it to your Apache setup and restart apache.
• Add it to your DNS setup and HUP named.
• Add it to your qmail setup and restart qmail.

Details

Registrars

I will not discuss registering your domain. If you can’t figure that out, then you have other problems. I suggest dotster.

Apache

These notes will be slightly specific to my apache setup, but should be applicable with minor modifications. For example, I have each domain setup under conf/domains and have apache include every file in that directory. This allows various domain owners to tweak their own configs.

• Run:
  • cd ~www
  • sudo mkdir -p imadork.com/{analog,analog_data,html,logs}
  • ln -s zenspider.com/bin imadork.com
  • cp conf/domain/existing.com conf/domain/imadork.com

• Edit new domain config file (or section in httpd.conf) with the following templated information:

  <VirtualHost *> # basic info from template above: ServerAdmin owner@imadork.com DocumentRoot /usr/home/www/imadork.com/html ServerName www.imadork.com ErrorLog /usr/home/www/imadork.com/logs/error.log CustomLog /usr/home/www/imadork.com/logs/access.log combined

  # anything below here is extra set by ryand:
  ServerAlias   imadork.com *.imadork.com
  
  <Directory "/usr/home/www/imadork.com/analog/">
    Options +Indexes
  </Directory>
  

  </VirtualHost>

• Run:
  • apache configtest
  • apache restart

DNS/BIND

Setup is specific to zenspider.com. I will try to document it in another page soon. (TODO)

• Run:
  • cd /etc/named
  • Edit GNUmakefile and add imadork.com to DOMAIN variable.
  • Edit named.conf to include dns.imadork.com as a master domain.
  • sudo gmake
  • sudo killall -HUP named

• named.conf should look like:

  zone “imadork.com” { type master; file “dns.imadork.com”;
  };

Finally, contact your secondary DNS provider and make sure he adds the new domain as a slave into his/her setup and restarts.

Qmail

• Run:
  • cd /var/qmail/control
  • Edit rcpthosts and virtualdomains as described below.
  • sudo killall qmail-lspawn
  • sudo killall tcpcontrol

  • ps auxww

    egrep “(qmail

    splogger)”

  • sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh
  • sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tcpcontrol.sh

TODO: check above list and make sure setup is correct.

• rcpthosts:

  imadork.com .imadork.com

• virtualdomains:

  imadork.com:username

Requirements:

• Qmail 1.0.3 or better. Probably older versions as well.
• BIND 8.3.1 or better. Probably older versions as well.

Compatibility

Should work w/ qmail and bind on any system.

Code

N/A

Crontab

N/A