[CentOS] Disabling stock firewall and SELinux for ISPConfig

Thu May 10 15:30:34 UTC 2012
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

On 05/10/2012 04:56 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have been reading a tutorial on configuring and securing a CentOS 6.2 machine:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-6.2-x86_64-with-apache2-ispconfig-3-p3
>
> This tutorial bases the configuration on an application called
> ISPConfig. I am not sure that I like the idea of disabling the stock
> firewall and SELinux as the tutorial suggests, even with all the
> troubles that SELinux has given me in the past. What do those wiser
> than myself think about this?
>
> For some background, I will be setting up a rather bland server for
> serving a few websites. Thy will all be served via Apache, coded in
> PHP. I am concerned about correctly configuring a safe firewall for
> the system. So any advice particular to that would be much
> appreciated.
>

In distant past I though of SELinux as burden. Now, I use it on every 
system I install.

Take a look at Virtualmin (GPL). I prefer it instead of ISPConfig, and 
it has regular repository you can install and update from.


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