Setup Easy Hosting Control Panel (ehcp) for Debian/Ubuntu August 18th, 2010
ehcp is a new Hosting Control Panel in Linux world. Although it is in beta stage, its basic functions are well functioning. it operates strongly with debian/ubuntu”s apt-get package manager..
it differs from other control panels, or even other opensource panels that, ehcp is the first and only: opensource,full php, object oriented, gpl, free hosting control panel on the earth !
You may use ehcp to easily setup a hosting environment, for yourself or for selling hosting..You may also use it for only ftp hosting..
Requirements:
A clean ubuntu or any debian based linux install. nothing else. Any apt-get enabled linux is enaugh.
to install copy and paste following on your linux console:
wget http://www.ehcp.net/ehcp_latest.tgz
tar -zxvf ehcp_latest.tgz
cd ehcp
./install.sh
#
the installer will ask some questions about your settings, then will automatically install any needed server programs such as apache, mysql and so on..
After installer finishes, navigate to localhost (if you installed on local) or to ip by typing at address bar of your browser.
default login: admin
default pass: 1234

you may find additional information check here, test ehcp on a real server at http://83.133.127.19.
source here
Creating a radius based VPN with support for Windows clients June 6th, 2010
This article discusses setting up up an integrated IPSec/L2TP VPN using Radius and integrating it with Microsoft Windows clients.
Introduction and Planning
The software installed is going to be based on Debian packages as far as it is possible.
If we need to rely on a product not within Debian, then it’s source code will be retrieved and rebuilt.
Also sometimes the Debian packages are available, but have a compilation feature switched off (usually SSL support).
Where necessary that Debian package will need to be recompiled too.
Overall Setup
The goal of this article is to set up a Linux based VPN server compatible with MS-Windows IPSec/L2TP clients, where users are authenticated against a RADIUS server.
Each main service in this document should have it’s own IP address assigned to it. That way services can be moved to different hosts in the future.
While the VPN server uses the ppp daemon as part of it’s solution, a separate IP needs to be allocated to that.
It is the point where the VPN tunnels terminate and route into the network.
For this document, the IP addresses assigned to the services follows.
Note that these will need to change based on your real-world rollout.
Base Operating System: 10.10.0.216 MySQL Database Server: 10.10.0.217 FreeRADIUS Server: 10.10.0.218 IPSec VPN Server: 10.10.0.219 ppp Device: 10.10.0.220 Read the rest of this entry »
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I decide to create hotspot from my server to allow other connect to Internet for free. I used “Captive portal” solution based on these applications:
When somebody wants to connect to Internet using my wifi, the first page he can see is the register/login page (whatever page he wants to visit).
After registration/login he is able to connect to Internet.
So let’s see how I did it.
Let’s have one server with two network interfaces – first (eth0) goes to Internet, the second one (eth1) is the wifi for “unknown” clients.
Intermet —eth0-dhcp-Hot Spot Server-eth1-192.168.10.1———((((- ))))———–Client Read the rest of this entry »
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This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius (1.1.7) server with Wifi authentication and accounting in conjunction with MySQL & web management with Daloradius on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition This howto should work for a novice. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking. But as usual I do not guarantee anything & take no responsibilities if something goes wrong.
(For a basic how-to refer to the doc http://www.howtoforge.com/wifi-authentication-accounting-with-freeradius-on-centos5.)
Following steps are involved:
- Building Ubuntu 8.04 .debs (for eap/ttls support)
- Installing the binary packages
- Configuring the FR with MySQL
- Setting up web management with Daloradius
Step 1- Building Ubuntu 8.04. packages
Note: Those who don’t need openssl/tls/ttls (certificates etc..) just fetch the FR packages from ubuntu repos with apt-get & skip to step 3.
Before building the FreeRadius Ubuntu 8.04 package we have to apt-get some packages, necessary for the build process.
sudo su -
apt-get install debhelper libltdl3-dev libpam0g-dev \
libmysqlclient15-dev build-essential libgdbm-dev \
libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libiodbc2-dev libkrb5-dev snmp \
autotools-dev dpatch libperl-dev libtool dpkg-dev libpq-dev \
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Installing and configuring FreeRADIUS with MySQL authentication and after that Installing and configuring daloRADIUS June 6th, 2010
Here’s a *near* step-by-step guide to setup FreeRADIUS with MySQL backed authentication done on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). Start by installing the necessary deb files:
# apt-get install freeradius freeradius-mysql
Add the following lines to the /etc/freeradius/users file:
abc Cleartext-Password := “123″
Stop freeradius service just in case:
/etc/init.d/freeradius stop
Now test using the radtest client:
# radtest abc 123 localhost 1812 testing123
Sending Access-Request of id 149 to 127.0.0.1 port 1812
User-Name = “abc”
User-Password = “123″
NAS-IP-Address = 208.67.219.132
NAS-Port = 1812
rad_recv: Access-Accept packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 1812, id=149, length=20
Ensure that the response is “Access-Accept”. The following should be displayed at the server console:
rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 33425, id=149, length=55 Read the rest of this entry »
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