Simple guide to installing CPanel (WHM) on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Add and configure a VPC

1. Networking & Content Delivery > VPC
2. Start VPC Wizard > Select
3. Set CIDR to range of your choosing
4. Give a relevant name
5. Create VPC

Add and configure a Security Group:

1. Networking & Content Delivery > VPC > Security > Security Groups
2. Create Security Group
   1. Give relevant name, group and description
   2. Select previously created VPC
   3. Yes, Create
3. Highlight the newly created Group
   1. Inbound Rules (scroll down) > Edit
   2. Add rules for the following ports:

• 80
• 22
• 2083 – for CPanel
• 2087 – for WHM

*I would suggest setting the Source to ‘My IP’ until testing is complete

As part of a corporate network migration, DNS was top of the list.

MyDNSConfig 3.0.1 was the source and Route 53 being the preferred destination.

Step are very straightforward:

1. Login to AWS Account and navigate to Route 53
2. Create ‘Hosted Domain’ > enter domain name and a comment (good housekeeping)
3. Select ‘Import Zone File’
4. SSH to the MyDNSConfig server
5. Export a record by the following command:

mydnsexport domain.com

Which outputs the entire zone file e.g.

1. Edit .htaccess
2. Enter the following:

Redirect 301 “/path/to/dir/old.pdf” http://www.domain.com/path/to/dir/redirect.pdf

Smoothwall Express 3.1 – Full Firewall Control Mod

This is a must have for any Smoothwall Express Setup. This mod gives you full control of your interfaces including mutliple IP addresses, ports and mac control:

To install the mod simply run the following from command line:

**Make sure Smoothwall express has update 6 or above installed

cd /tmp
wget -O fullfirewallv3.1.6.tar.bz2 http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/download/file.php?id=5275
tar jxvf fullfirewallv3.1.6.tar.bz2 -C /
./install-ffc.pl 

Log back into the Smoothwall GUI and you will now see Firewall > Firewall Control interface.

For further reading take a look at the smoothwall community here

TIPS

1. To add a secondary red ip:

Networking > Interfaces > Enter Secondary Red IP address > Save

Credit goes directly to cenolan.com’s blog post – http://www.cenolan.com/2012/02/mass-email-migration-from-imap-to-google-apps-using-imapsync/

This method includes a text file containing the users source email address and password as well as the destination (Google) email address and password. Imapsync is the engine to transfer the email and there is a bash script to drive it.

*Allow each user to update their password once email is directed to Google
**Allow less secure apps to allow the transfer to work – http://support.google.com/a/answer/6260879?hl=en – turn off again once complete

Insert the following into a text file (update with live details):

user1@source.tld;user1sourcepassword;user1@destination.tld;user1destinationpassword
user2@source.tld;user2sourcepassword;user2@destination.tld;user2destinationpassword
user3@source.tld;user3sourcepassword;user3@destination.tld;user3destinationpassword

Add as many users as necessary. I found it helpful to add 10 users into a text file at a time to keep an eye on transfers.

Create the script: