Explanation of DirectAdmin?

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Sheldon

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Ok guys,

I havent had alot of time to play with DirectAdmin and im kinda new to DA so bare with me here.

Im primarily a Linux cPanel Server Admin, converted to DirectAdmin because 15minuteservers.com doesnt offer cPanel licenses and I cant stand Ensim or Plesk. So far my partner who is taking care of it loves it.

However as I pretty much do all the system updates and really dont want to do it all the hard way, is there a much easier way to upgrade the system software such as apache, php, perl, exim etc without going nutz?

And a quick explanation of any of these easy scripts like cpanel has and where this supposed folder lays would be awesome.

Bare with me here, remember I use to admin cPanel! .. I know you all feel for me, dont cry its ok!

Im here now right, thats what counts!
 
Hi Sheldon,

DirectAdmin keeps itself updated, and also automatically updates software like Exim and ProftpD. Because updating PHP and Apache requires taking them down for a recompile, we provide a simple script that you must run as root (in SSH).

We don't touch perl at all so that would be your responsibility to upgrade. DirectAdmin does NOT integrate with your OS, so you still need some way of keeping your operating system current (e.g. up2date or apt-get).

Mark
 
or in my case yum?

And is there any general overview of the quirks or hidden attributes like a guide to securing DirectAdmin or a tips and tricks guide? They are all over for cPanel was wondering if there was any for DAdmin.

ps. I know the general stuff to securing a server like update all the software, install a firewall ids rootchecker etc.

Thanks
Sheldon
 
thoroughfare said:
Just to add to Mark's comments, the shell script for updating Apache, PHP etc can be found here:

http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104
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customapache has been a part of DA for some time now; there's no reason to run anything but the various build commands. I posted a set of commands yesterday, but here they are again:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
rm -f configure.apache_ssl
./build update
./build clean
./build all y
./build zend
Mark, how/when does DA update Exim/ProFTPD?
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I'll second that question. The updated files DA uses can be found here, but I thought I'd read that they were left up to us to update.

Jeff
 

cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
rm -f configure.apache_ssl
./build update
./build clean
./build all y
./build zend
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what are the options its default built with? and say I wanted to add something that wasnt added how would I do this? or remove something I dont want. etc etc?

Thanks
 
The configuration files are all in the customapache directory tree.

There's also a README, if I remember correctly.

Jeff
 
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