Solutions - Virtualmin on Ubuntu 10.04 Mediatemple (ve) server

#latest updates
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade

mysql doesn’t go right with virtualmin, for some reason I couldn’t access mysql’s password! I know I

could always hack it with root, but still I want this scripted. I tried everything… so eventually I

resorted to just installing mysql-server and seeding the password like so:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1618055

debconf-get-selections | grep mysql

echo “mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server/root_password password PASSWORD” | debconf-set-selections
echo “mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server/root_password_again password PASSWORD” | debconf-set-selections
apt-get -y install mysql-server

Install Virtualmin

Virtualmin doesn’t work out of the box because of noexec on /tmp or something. Well I take that

back… it installs, but I’m fairly certain it’s not a full installation. Theres a check for this I saw in

install.sh but whatever it was didn’t work on my system. I found this tip to temporarily remount the

/tmp drive

mkdir ~/tmp
mount --bind ~/tmp /tmp
wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh -y

Apache was sent into an endless spiral of segfaults for some reason, restarting solves this.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This gets rid of your /tmp remount

umount /tmp
rm -rf ~/tmp/

Get quota filesystem wasn’t working according to config. This did the trick. Copied this line from

my /etc/mtab I think.

echo ‘/dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0’ >> /etc/fstab

So that’s how I’m getting Virtualmin installed on my new ve server.

thanks for this info. i’m just about to attempt an install of VM on Ubuntu Srv. 10 but i was wondering. does it matter that ive already got the following installed:

1, Mysql
2, ProFTPD
3, Apache

??
thanks
zac

If you only have them “installed”, but not configured (as in changed from the default configuration files) in any way, you’re good to go.