Hi person! :-)
I’ve been going through a lot of DO’s forums, OS forums, and server forums, so I’m listing everything here which may address many of the recommendations I’ve come across.
What I’m attempting: personalized family accounts - personal Wordpress websites available through /var/www/html, personal Rainloop e-mail through /var/www/rainloop, personal Filerun storage through /var/www/filerun. Oh, and some server games so we can play each other online through the server, but that’s not important here.
If you see server setup problems or file problems you would change - even if you’re unsure what’s going on with the domain - I’m happy to accept critiques on that, as well.
Ubuntu PhpMyAdmin on 18.04 droplet
What I’m currently working on is the e-mail. My goal is to reach the webmail at https://email.mydomain.tld
(Rainloop’s website uses “webmail.mydomain.tld” for installation. Even if I can just get it installed, I’m still fine with using https://webmail.mydomain.tld, instead of “email”.)
Type | Hostname | Value | Priority | TTL (seconds)
MX records, added several priorities because I can’t figure it out MX | webmail.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 0 | 14400 MX | webmail.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 1 | 14400 MX | webmail.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 5 | 14400 MX | webmail.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 10 | 14400 MX | mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 0 | 14400 MX | mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 1 | 14400 MX | mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 5 | 14400 MX | mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 10 | 14400 MX | email.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 0 | 14400 MX | email.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 1 | 14400 MX | email.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 5 | 14400 MX | email.mydomain.tld | mail handled by DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 10 | 14400
(Once I can get it properly set up, I intend to start removing these one by one, to figure out which ones I need to keep.)
Wordpress installation, working properly CNAME | wordpress.mydomain.tld | is an alias of mydomain.tld. | 43200
For future storage installation (not there yet) CNAME | mydrive.domain.tld | is an alias of mydomain.tld. | 43200
Linking domain to host IP A | mydomain.tld | directs to DO.HOST.IP.ADDRESS | 3600
To fix “www” CNAME | www.mydomain.tld | is an alias of mydomain.tld. | 43200
Nameservers NS | mydomain.tld | directs to ns1.digitalocean.com. | 1800 NS | mydomain.tld | directs to ns2.digitalocean.com. | 1800 NS | mydomain.tld | directs to ns3.digitalocean.com. | 1800
##Current .htaccess and .conf Setups:
/var/www/.htaccess Options -Indexes
/var/www/html/.htaccess <Directory /var/www/> AllowOverride All </Directory>
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).mail.mydomain.tld$ RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://mail.mydomain.tld/%1/$1 [L,R]
Options -Indexes DirectoryIndex index.php index.html /example.php
# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
/var/www/rainloop/.htaccess None yet, intend to edit once I’ve gotten it set up.
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf ServerName mydomain.tld
**rainloop.conf (VirtualHost :80) and rainloop-le-ssl.conf (VirtualHost :443) Both list the correct domain (ServerName email.mydomain.tld) and point to the correct folder (DocumentRoot /var/www/rainloop).
rainloop.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName email.mydomain.tld DocumentRoot “/var/www/rainloop/” ServerAdmin my@email.address
ErrorLog “/var/log/apache2/rainloop_error_log” (word just got italicized in this post because of underscores) TransferLog “/var/log/apache2/rainloop_access_log”
<Directory /> Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Allow from all Require all granted </Directory>
rainloop-le-ssl.conf
<IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName email.mydomain.tld DocumentRoot “/var/www/rainloop/” ServerAdmin my@email.address
ErrorLog “/var/log/apache2/rainloop_error_log” TransferLog “/var/log/apache2/rainloop_access_log”
<Directory /> Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Allow from all Require all granted </Directory>
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/email.mydomain.tld/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/email.mydomain.tld/privkey.pem Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf </VirtualHost> </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
/etc/apache2/wordpress.conf <Directory /var/www/> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory>
If you see server setup problems or file problems you would change - even if you’re unsure what’s going on with the domain - I’m happy to accept critiques on that, as well.
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Okay, so I finally figured it out. For anyone else who wants it:
Nevermind, forget everything here. I’ve skipped over some steps. This did work at face value, but it didn’t work with receiving mail, nor did it allow for proper subdomaining. Reset everything - just going to keep working through it.
@stevenhost I did finally just Google it and set it properly.
Though I found out I needed Dovecot, Postfix, plus Rainloop. And I had missed the first two.
So I had Rainloop working, but could create users email accounts.