@Lorry :

If you are still using wheezy, try to add -wheezy on each page

For exemple the oldest version of this current page is

http://qmailrocks.thibs.com/webtools-wheezy.php

There is another solution for wheezy  debian v 7.11, for Enabling web tools?

 /etc/apache2/conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf not available in wheezy debian ????

Hello,

Do you have an error message in the logs ? The CGI files are dowloaded instead of executed ?

Best Regards

Thibs

I am having a bit of an issue getting the vqadmin and qmailadmin not firing when called upon. Debian 8.2 64bit. I have followed the steps, typing very carefully twice and copy and pasted the commands once with the same result. All of the cgi paths in the config files etc. are correct. Any suggestions?

Bob

Hello,

You can indeed have 2 different names (the server name and a CNAME)

Hi, 

Thanks for the wheezy post. One small question. Can I use hostname.orginialdomainname.tld on this apache host configuration. Later you have configure host.original domain.tld for SMTP configuration. If I give different name, then I have to create two alias on my cpanel. Please suggest whether I should put the same name for both apache site and during SMTP configuration.

Okay, false alarm.

Turns out I have a coworker who thought it would be funny to setup a redirect and remove it every time I logged in.

So, everything works great.   Thanks

Hello, Do you confirm you have the same as this :

root@YOURSERVER:~# ls -lah /var/www/mail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/
total 172K
drwxr-xr-x 3 vpopmail vchkpw   4.0K Feb 16 16:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root     4.0K Feb 16 16:48 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  116 Feb 16 16:44 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw   4.0K Feb 16 16:43 html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root       44 Feb 16 16:45 .htpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw    864 Feb 16 16:43 vqadmin.acl
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root     root     145K Feb 16 16:43 vqadmin.cgi

First, I've installed Qmailrocks on a number of servers and it works fine.  This time has been different.

Okay, I've installed Qmailrocks on two different servers and twice on the same server with the same results when I am at this point to test the web tools.

On the first day, everything works fine.  I can get to vqadmin.cgi and qmailadmin and I can add domains and accounts with no issues.

On the second day, I can't access these two pages again!  Nothing was changed by me at all, all the files are still where they were.  DNS is still the same. And even using the IP addres instead of the domain name, gets me an error.

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi was not found on this server.

For those of you who don't have access to your companies (or your own) DNS system, you can add the IP address of your Qmail server to your client workstations "hosts" file.

For example I'm setting up a Debian test machine in VMware and don't have access to my companies DNS server.  For this portion of the guide I set the FQDN as "mailadmin.acme.lan" with the ip 10.10.10.1(the address of my VM server) in my hosts file.

On Windows you can find this in your %SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder.  On Linux systems /etc/hosts is where you'll find it.

Obiously this will only work for those in a testing environment, you'll eventually want to set it up proper.

Hope that helps!

~Allen

On ubuntu server need use

a2enmod cgi
a2enmod perl

delete .htaccess and on virtual conf add

AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/mail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/.htpasswd
AuthName vQadmin
require valid-user
Options +ExecCGI -Indexes
order deny,allow

Gents,

I have been running a mail server based upon this tutorial for several years without any problems. Thanks for the effort.

However, when trying to implement a secure webserver I encounter problems. My I kindly request that the tutorial reflects also this important part. I would appreciate that the tutorial also cover this issue in the same excellent way that the rest of subjects.

Thanks in advance

stenhh

@Jurgen Your advice is good ...  In my case I've made a certificate especially for that (https://mailadmin.thibs.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin)

a feature for those who are interested, I added the following to the above vhost configuration to add SSL to everything using the mailadmin sub domain:

#a2enmod ssl

now edit the site vhost file:

<VirtualHost *:443>

....

+        SSLEngine On

+        SSLCertificateFile      /var/qmail/control/clientcert.pem

+        SSLCertificateKeyFile   /var/qmail/control/clientcert.pem

....

One year later..

Deploying next server.

Forgot about:

a2enmod ssl

Enabling module ssl.

Forgot about enabling SSL module:

a2enmod ssl

Good suggestion !

BTW, It's possible to have FREE official certificates through https://www.startssl.com/

Ok, now all is working  fine.

I recommend use HTTPS instead of HTTP since there are clear passwords.

To enable HTTPS in Apache:

Generate certs:
openssl genrsa -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
and check it:
openssl x509 -in /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt -noout -subject

Modify Apache website:

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName someweb.server.com
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key
<Directory /var/www/someweb/>
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And it will work. I've disabled Qmail over 80, so only 443 is enabled.

It worked like a charm.

However, now I'm trying to add HTTPS support to every admin panel in Qmail.

There is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl file but seems it doesn't work (going to https://server_ip shows no page available, site is enabled anyway). No clear error in /var/log/apache2/error.log.. port is opened.. hmm still investigating issue

Invalid language file

cd /var/www/mail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/html

e.g.: cp de de-de

but be aware!

some browsers have set e.g. "de-DE" (the second "DE" is UPPERcase!)

so you have to cp de de-DE

You may get

Invalid language file

error if your browser uses a default language encoding other than the ones that are supported by vqadmin. The quick solution is to copy one of the language files with a new name.

Example:

assume your vqadmin is installed in /var/www/mail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/

than you can do

cd /var/www/mail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/html

cp en tr

that solved my problem with Turkish encoding.

Thanks for the greate site.

What is the default User Account , Domain Name and Password for qmailadmin ?? After this process ??

>In your instruction what FQDN do you use to access the webmail interface?  mailadmin.yourdomain.tld/webmail

Refer to http://qmailrocks.thibs.com/roundcubemail.php for the webmail part

>Why do you suggest the hostname be different from the mailadmin.yourdomain.tld?

It's to avoid changing the default apache configuration. I just make the changes into a virtual host

Thanks. 

 In your instruction what FQDN do you use to access the webmail interface?  mailadmin.yourdomain.tld/webmail

Why do you suggest the hostname be different from the mailadmin.yourdomain.tld?

If you are not able to add a new domain in vqadmin , try tail -n 20 /var/log/apache2/mailadmin.yourdomain.tld-error.log

If you see something like "Warning: Failed to delete dir_control for yourdomain.tld" then check your mysql connection settings in /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql