[Part 3] Successful Creation of Virtual Server with Virtualmin

Subject: [Part 3] Successful Creation of Virtual Server with Virtualmin

Author: Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (TARGETED INDIVIDUAL)

Country: Singapore

Date: 19 Oct 2021 Tuesday Singapore Time

Type of Publication: Plain Text

Document Version: 20211019.01

About The Series

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Part 1 of the series: Teo En Ming's Notes for Setting Up Web Hosting Control Panel using Virtualmin GPL

Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/mailman/message/37368877/

Part 2 of the series: Teo En Ming's Notes for Configuring DNS and Creating Virtual Server with Virtualmin and Webmin

Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/mailman/message/37369606/

This is Part 3 of the series.

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

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FIRST THING FIRST: Configuring Custom DNS at the Domain Registrar

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Login to your domain registrar. In my case it is namecheap.

On the left menu, click Domain List.

Check domain name turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com and click Manage.

Click Advanced DNS.

Scroll down to PERSONAL DNS SERVER.

Click ADD NAMESERVER.

Nameserver: NS1

IP Address: 185.182.9.61

Click DONE.

Click ADD NAMESERVER.

Nameserver: NS2

IP Address: 185.182.9.61

Click DONE.

After adding your two name servers, click the search button to check

if they are added successfully. If so, the glue records will appear at

the bottom of this page.

Now, click the Domain tab.

Under NAMESERVERS, select Custom DNS.

Nameserver 1: ns1.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Nameserver 2: ns2.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Click the green check mark.

Sign out from namecheap.

Delete Manually Configured DNS Zone (which was created with Webmin)

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Login to Virtualmin.

Click Webmin at the top left.

Click Servers > BIND DNS Server

Click turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Click Delete Selected

Delete Zones

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Are you sure you want to delete the 1 selected zones? (turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com)

Click Delete Now

Deleting zone turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com ..

.. done.

Click Return to zone list

Create Virtual Server

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Login to Virtualmin.

Click Create Virtual Server on the left menu.

Domain name: turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Description: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Domain

Administration password: <REMOVED>

SSH public key: No default key

Server configuration template: Default settings

Account Plan: Default Plan

Administration username: Automatic

Enabled features

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Check Setup DNS zone

Check Setup Apache website

Check Setup Apache SSL website

Check Create MariaDB database

Check Accept mail for domain

Check Setup spam filtering

Check Setup virus filtering

Check Setup Webalizer for web logs

Check Create Webmin login

Check Enable AWstats reporting

Uncheck Setup IP-based virtual FTP

Click Create Server

Setting Up Virtual Server

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In domain turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Creating administration group turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming ..

.. done

Creating administration user turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming ..

.. done

Creating aliases for administration user ..

.. done

Adding administration user to groups ..

.. done

Creating home directory ..

.. done

Creating mailbox for administration user ..

.. done

Adding new DNS zone ..

.. done

Adding to email domains list ..

.. done

Adding default mail aliases ..

.. done

Adding new virtual website ..

.. done

Adding webserver user apache to server's group ..

.. done

Performing other Apache configuration ..

.. done

Setting up scheduled Webalizer reporting ..

.. done

Creating SSL certificate and private key ..

.. done

Adding new SSL virtual website ..

.. done

Setting up log file rotation ..

.. done

Creating MariaDB login ..

.. done

Creating MariaDB database turritopsis_dohrnii_teo_en_ming ..

.. done

Setting up spam filtering ..

.. done

Setting up virus filtering ..

.. done

Setting up AWstats reporting ..

.. done

Setting up password protection for AWstats ..

.. done

Creating Webmin user ..

.. done

Saving server details ..

.. done

Re-starting DNS server ..

.. done

Applying web server configuration ..

.. done

Re-starting Webmin ..

.. done

Re-starting Usermin ..

.. done

Re-loading Webmin ..

.. done

Requesting a certificate for turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com, www.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com, mail.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com, admin.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com, webmail.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com from Let's Encrypt ..

.. request was successful!

Creating initial website index page ..

.. done

Applying web server configuration ..

.. done

Re-starting Webmin ..

.. done

Re-starting Usermin ..

.. done

Click Return to virtual server details

Edit Virtual Server

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In domain turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Virtual server details

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Domain name turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Administration username turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming (For MariaDB database : turritopsis-dohr)

Administration group turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming

Created on 10/19/2021 3:58:49 PM by root

Home directory /home/turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming

IP addresses 185.182.9.61 (185.182.9.61 externally)

Domain ID 163465190630155

Click Save Virtual Server

Save Server

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In domain turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.com

Updating Webmin user ..

.. done

Updating Webmin user ..

.. done

Saving server details ..

.. done

Re-loading Webmin ..

.. done

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 19 Oct 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a Systems Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast.

REFERENCES

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[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/mailman/message/37369722/

[2] https://marc.info/?l=webmin-l&m=163465469616880&w=2