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How to setup DA with an SSL certificate

If you already have your own certificate and key, then paste them into the following files:

Edit the /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf and set SSL=1 (default is 0). This tells DA to load the certificate and key and to use an SSL connection. DirectAdmin needs to be restarted after this change.

If you also have a CA Root Certificate, this can be specified by adding:

into the /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf file and by pasting the contents of the caroot cert into that file.

Source: http://directadmin.com/

Note that if the value does not exist in the directadmin.conf, it will be the default internal value within DirectAdmin.

Adding a value to the directadmin.conf would override the internal default.
You can always see what values are being used on your system by typing:

Variables with default values which are (null) should not be added to the directadmin.conf unless you plan on using them.

If you want to remove that variable, then completely remove it from the directadmin.conf

Removing Reseller’s Access to Server’s Shared IP in DirectAdmin

As an Admin, you can give Resellers the ability to create User web sites using the Server’s Shared (main) IP address. At this time, you cannot remove this ability through the control panel.

To solve the problem manually, remove the desired IP address from the ip.list file in the Reseller’s DirectAdmin config directory

Reseller’s DirectAdmin config directory

This change will not affect the Reseller’s current Users (if they are using the server’s main IP, they will continue to do so.

Source & credit - http://www.directadmin.com

SSL on the server’s main domain with DirectAdmin

If an Admin wishes to add an SSL certificate on the main server’s domain, they must do it manually. To do this, the Admin must obtain the certificate and key (explained in just a moment). After these have been acquired, the Admin will have to edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and scroll to the very bottom. You should see 2 virtual host directives. With the one that says <VirtualHost :443> you must modify the SSL tags.

Set:

You have a few options when it comes to obtaining the key and certificate. First you can create you own self signed certificate. You can do this by typing the following:

The second line is to remove the password from the key so that apache won’t hang on bootup waiting for the key password. Those commands will create a self signed certificate (remove the key.temp file after you’re done) but if you want to use an authority to sign your certificate (removes the annoying popup), you’ll need to create a certificate request:

and you send the certificate.request file to to certificate authority to be signed. They will send you a signed certificate which you will install using the apache tags noted above (and you can delete the certificate.request file, it’s not needed).

Source and Credit - http://www.directadmin.com

DirectAdmin simple partition structure

You may modify these as needed.

Note, if you plan on installing dovecot, all email data is stored under /home and not /var, so adjust as needed. Also FreeBSD and Debian store mysql databases in /home/mysql/.

Please have Basic development/compiling tools such as gcc, g++, and perl.