Sunday, December 26, 2021

How to change Apache port

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Restart apache2

Virtual Host in Ubuntu

 go to /etc/apache2/sites-available/

nano sitename.conf

copy- 

<VirutalHost *:80>

    ServerName example.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/xxxx


</VirtualHost>


sudo a2ensite sitename


reload apache2

Saturday, December 18, 2021

sendmail install and configure ubuntu

 Update Server Packages


SSH inside your server and update the packages to it’s latest version.


sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade


Install Sendmail


Sendmail is available in the ubuntu repository, so you can directly install using apt install command.


sudo apt install sendmail


Configure Hostname


Edit the /etc/hosts file and add your hostname.


sudo nano /etc/hosts


On the line starting with 127.0.0.1, add the hostname to the end as it looks below. This should be on a single line.


127.0.0.1 localhost hostname


Configure SMTP


Create new directory inside /etc/mail for SMTP configurations.


sudo mkdir /etc/mail/authinfo


Setup correct permissions.


sudo chmod -R 700 /etc/mail/authinfo


Create a new file for your SMTP authentication inside the newly created directory.


cd /etc/mail/authinfo

sudo nano smtp-auth


Paste the following line and replace the email-address with your login email and password with your password.


AuthInfo: "U:root" "I:email-address" "P:password"


Hit CRTL + X followed by Y and ENTER to save and exit the file.


Create a hash database map for the above created authentication.


sudo makemap hash smtp-auth < smtp-auth


Configure SMTP


Navigate to the sendmail configuration directory and edit the sendmail.mc file.


cd /etc/mail

sudo nano sendmail.mc


Add the below configurations right after the MAILER _DEFINITIONS line.


Replace smtp-host with your SMTP hostname.


define(`SMART_HOST',`[smtp-host]')dnl

define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl

define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl

define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl

TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo/smtp-auth.db')dnl


The configuration should look like the same as the below screenshot.

SMTP configuration


Now save the file and exit the editor.

Rebuild Sendmail Configuration


Once the configuration is done you need to rebuild the Sendmail configuration using the make command.


cd /etc/mail

make


Once the configuration is rebuilt you need to restart Sendmail

Restart Sendmail


Restart Sendmail using the following command.


sudo /etc/init.d/sendmail restart


Now you can send emails using SMTP.

Additional Configurations

Configuration with PHP


To use Sendmail with PHP you need to ad sendmail path in your php.ini file.


sudo nano /etc/php/version/fpm-or-apache2/php.ini


To the bottom of the file add the following.


sendmail_path= /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i


Restart Apache or PHP-FPM for the changes to take effect.


sudo service apache2 restart


or


sudo service php8.0-fpm restart


Sendmail SMTP Configuration without Auth


Incase if you have whitelisted your server IP for SMTP and you can send emails without authentication you can follow the below method.


You don’t need to create the smtp-auth file that we created above.


You can directly edit the sendmail.mc file and make the following changes.


cd /etc/mail

sudo nano sendmail.mc


Add the below configurations to the last.


Replace smtp-host with your SMTP hostname.


define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp-host')dnl

define(`RELAY_MAILER', `esmtp')dnl

define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl


Save the file, rebuild configuration and restart Sendmail.


cd /etc/mail

make

sudo /etc/init.d/sendmail restart