Add support for RHEL 9 and compatible clones

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I can report that pure-ftpd is available and installs on Rocky Linux 9 - fresh install today, followed most of the "Perfect CentOS 8" base instructions. I have not tested it yet, but it was available and installed, configured and started without errors.

At the time of writing (or shortly before) pure-ftpd (as well as awstats) was not yet available via EPEL.
Rspamd is still not available, at least not via rspamd.org.

i simply did a "dnf -y install pure-ftpd" and it installed pure-ftpd-1.0.51-1.el9.x86_64 (via rpm -qa). the installation of the EPEL release was done successfully before that, but I don't know the actual source from where it pulled pure-ftpd

just did a fresh install again, (minimal install, installed epel-release (9.4), installed "Developer Tools"), then did a "dnf update", and rebooted. I then ran "dnf install pure-ftpd" and it states that it's available, and going to install 1.0.51-1.el9.x86_64 from the "epel" repository, with the other dependencies (mariadb*, libpq, sscg) coming from "appstream". I haven't looked at the actual EPEL repository online, but I know it's pulling from there using DNF. it does install successfully.

one note: i do see the following message while running the pure-ftpd scriptlet during installation - not sure if it's pure-ftpd specific, or RL9 specific: /etc/rc.d/rc.local not marked executable, skipping

that's what I know.

to follow up on the pure-ftpd "skipping" message - that's not an error message, it's pure-ftpd indicating that it's not going to use that pre-CentOS 7 startup mechanism because it's not executable, indicating that that OS is a systemd-based OS. it's just an informational message, not an error message like I interpreted it.

to add to the list of things that are "missing" - the Perfect CentOS 8 instructions have a step that installs "powertools" - this caused an error "no such package" essentially, even using PowerTools instead of powertools. I'm not a CentOS expert, just reporting what I found to be the case.

mentioned in merge request !1656 (merged)

mentioned in commit c29ebd09

closed with merge request !1656 (merged)

In a move clearly based more on faith than brains, I have been able to install ISPConfig on Rocky Linux 9 in a couple production environments without issue (for my applications). Here are things I've found that differ from "The Perfect Server Centos8"

Not Functioning: GetMail, Mod Python, Mailman
Untested: AWSStats (installs), Roundcube (I use Nextcloud)
Note this still uses the old Clamd/Amavisd filters

PowerTools is now: dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
Instead of upgrading PHP on Centos8, roll back to PHP7.4

dnf -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-9.rpm
dnf -y install yum-utils
dnf -y module reset php
dnf -y module install php:remi-7.4
dnf update

Personally I use the PHPMyAdmin.rpm instead of the latest from source.

dnf -y install phpmyadmin
mkdir /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/tmp
chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
chmod 777 /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/tmp

I add PCRE support instead of just Regex for Postfix Header filters: dnf -y install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-pcre postfix-perl-scripts
Configuring PHPMyAdmin for global access:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    Require local
    Require all granted    <----  Add to allow outside access
</Directory>

PHP packages I now install: dnf -y install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-pecl-apc php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-snmp php-soap php-tidy curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel mod_fcgid php-cli httpd-devel php-fpm php-intl php-imagick php-pspell wget
Let's Encrypt - again I prefer the packages: dnf install -y letsencrypt python3-certbot-apache
Pure-FTPd I find needs to be started twice (initial start builds the socket location, second one actually makes the .sock file and starts the service).
AWSStats: missing perl-DateTime-Format-HTTP, it still installs, but I haven't checked if it is readable/usable
Jailkit: remove: ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
Amavisd/Clamd: nano /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf the clamd.sock location is wrong, not sure this is the best/only place to change it as it is a messy config file Change /var/run/clamd.sock to /var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.sock

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After ISPConfig install, switch the /etc/postfix/main.cf regex:// for pcre://
Install PHP8.0 as a secondary PHP version: dnf -y install php80-php php80-php-devel php80-php-gd php80-php-imap php80-php-ldap php80-php-pecl-mysql php80-php-odbc php80-php-pear php80-php-xml php80-php-pecl-xmlrpc php80-php-pecl-apcu php80-php-mbstring php80-php-pecl-mcrypt php80-php-snmp php80-php-soap php80-php-tidy php80-php-cli php80-php-fpm php80-php-intl php80-php-imagick php80-php-pspell php80-php-pecl-zip php80-php-bcmath php80-php-gmp php80-php-smbclient php80-php-pecl-redis5 php80-php-pecl-apcu

php.ini settings are specifically for Nextcloud:

nano /etc/opt/remi/php80/php.ini memory_limit = 1024M date.timezone = "<Region/City>" - set to your timezone

systemctl start php80-php-fpm systemctl enable php80-php-fpm systemctl restart httpd php-fpm php80-php-fpm

In ISPConfig: Systems Tab Additional PHP Versions Add new PHP Version Name tab:

Server should be this server
Client should be blank unless you want PHP 8.0 only for specific clients
PHP Name: PHP 8.0 (or your naming convention)

Name tab

Name: PHP 8.0

FCGI tab

Path to the PHP FCGI binary: /opt/remi/php80/root/usr/bin/php-cgi
Path to the php.ini directory: /etc/opt/remi/php80

PHP FPM tab

Path to the PHP-FPM init script: php80-php-fpm
Path to the php.ini directory: /etc/opt/remi/php80
Path to the PHP-FPM pool directory: /etc/opt/remi/php80/php-fpm.d
PHP-FPM socket directory: /var/opt/remi/php80/run/php-fpm

Remember things like Nextcloud which can use Cron and CLI commands need to be called with php80 instead of php on PHP 8.0 sites

I appreciate the "all brawn, no brains" approach - thanks for taking a hit for the team! What "apps" are you using in your configuration?

Small business servers, full email, and with ISPConfig hosting Nextcloud as a complete Office365 replacement. 10-20 user environment. I'm not sure exactly what "apps" you want. Specifically I'm using the Email and Website hosting primarily, no DNS. I add the Automail addon for ISPConfig.

I'm running it on a Rocky Linux 9 Minimum Install, and basically just following the Perfect Server guide. No secret extras, just a plain "vanilla" install for a single domain environment. What I left out is at that top, no GetMail, no ModPython, no Mailman. AWSStats are in, but no promises it works, PureFTP worked, but I don't actively use it. RSpamd wasn't in the Rocky 9 repos yet last week, so it is still Clamd/Amavisd.

Sorry, thought I had linked the guide: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/perfect-server-centos-8-apache-mysql-php-pureftpd-postfix-dovecot-and-ispconfig/

i have that guide shortcut on my desktop - permanently :) it was the email/web/DNS apps that I was interested in. don't know Nextcloud or RSpamd or GetMail (things to look into), but I guess my setup is a notch above yours. 100+ domains, web/email hosting for multiple clients, FTP use internal only, and all DNS done inhouse as well. But it's all a 1-man show so I like to keep it simple, for me and the users. I've run a CentOS 6 server till it's just not feasible, so I was looking at seeing if I could go right to 9 if it would work. I guess I'll try it, see what doesn't work. Thanks again!

RSpamd is supposed to be the new replacement for Amavisd. (https://www.howtoforge.com/replacing-amavisd-with-rspamd-in-ispconfig/).

Getmail is a way to retrieve email from another account (fetching instead of forwarding).

Nextcloud started off as an opensource, self-hosted Dropbox. It's since morphed into a swiss-army tool of File Sync, Online Office suite, Email, Contacts (with Carddav sync), Calendar (Caldav sync) and a ton of other plugins. Roundcube is probably a better webmail client, although Nextcloud is getting closer, it has so many further options you can hang off of it (SMS Texting, GPS tracking, whiteboard, etc) that I think it is a better option to compete with Office365. It is a bit heavy though, so I opt to have companies host their own instances instead of hanging everything off of my server.

Thanks - I've been a clamd/postgrey faithful for years - might feel guilty for implementing Rspamd, but I'll look into it. I generally set up Outlook to pull in the different email accounts separately for people, but GetMail is an interesting alternative, though it adds to my perpetual mail pile size, so not sure there. NextCloud is an interesting package - not sure I can convince all my Office365 users to switch, and collaboration on that level isn't used for most of my clients, but it's an interesting solution for a problem I may not realize needs fixing Thanks again.

Currently Fail2ban 1.0.1-1, the version in the Rocky9 repos can cause 100% cpu usage and basically loops itself into being ineffective. Disable the Dovecot jail section in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local until it is updated.

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3370

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