Hello everybody!
I'm new in Linode comunity and I don't have very experience in full sevrers (servers with mail, web, DNS...), I've already only configured web servers, some mail servers...

I've read some tutorials to configure things like mail, web, user's quota... but, I would like some more.

I have my Linode and I have to configure multiple domains on it, how could I do it? what DNS server do you recomend me (somebodyu could paste his DNS configuration file here?), ...

Thanks.

I suggest Postfix + Courier-IMAP + mySQL + Squirrelmail

Check out postfixadmin (http://high5.net/postfixadmin/) -- it is a PHP web interface for the above. They have some interesting HOWTOs there.

Postfixadmin will also work with postgres, and maybe with other IMAP servers like dovecot (http://dovecot.org/). IIRC, dovecot comes with Fedora Core 2.

As to the DNS server... Most people use BIND (use version 9, not anything earlier!), that is probably installed in your distribution already, but you may also be interested in djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html).
You should probably read some tutorial on DNS, or better, the documentation that comes with BIND (it should be in /usr//share/doc/bind*)

J.

DNS - why do it yourself, when you can do it the easy way with zoneedit - for free! Fellow Linoder CSpurrier tells you how: http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=834.

Mail - Initial suggestion above by jp ( Postfix + Courier-IMAP + mySQL + Squirrelmail [plus Apache, of course]) is good - that's what I use as well. Where to find the howtos / tutorials depends a bit on which distro you have chosen. Let us know your choice and we will point you in the right direction.

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/ Peter

I use phpMyWebhosting which is: Linux, MySQL, Postfix, Courier POP & IMAP, Apache, ProFTPd, Bind, and a billing interface.

It's still under pretty heavy development, so you may want to go with something more mature if you're inexperienced. I also just use GoDaddy (my domain name registrar) to handle my DNS. No down time & an easy to use interface.

Hi!
I've installed and configured phpmywebhosting in my machine but I have some problems.

Durign the installation an dconfiguration, we have to create some databases: one for the phpmywebhosting, other for apache and other for postfix. When you install phpmywebhosting, the admindatabase's tables are created from a file (which is in the tar.gz) but, what happens with apache and postifx's databases? what we have to put on them?

Thanks.

I just tried to install Courier on CentOS and got a list of 13 dependencies that are missing and that I have to go get and install separately.

I'm kinda new with Linux too but it's starting to look like CentOS may be stable but there is an awful lot of things missing if you want to install extra bells and whistles.

I just enabled the built in ipop3d and it worked right away.
So I'm using postfix with ipop3d for now.

Also using Bind and mysql separately.

I'm using Webmin for the graphic interface. The Webmin File Manager is pretty cool to get around in the file system.

Webmin can help to set up Bind although I'm still trying to figure out how to use it properly.