WHMCS install setup

[Cain72]

Hi guys,

 

i have a couple of basic WHMCS install setup questions,

 

general info: im running, WHMCS + Virtualmin.

 

1 > I was planning on running WHMCS on its own separate standalone server and pointing it towards the web servers(kind of server farm settup), each installed with virtualmin.

 

I'm assuming whmcs can be setup on its own separate web server that would host the company website and also give access to the client portal part of whmcs to the outside world or am i miss understanding this concept?

 

2> RE: DNS/BindX - During my very quick test run / lookat through whmcs, I'm assuming that you can point it towards local DNS / name servers ?

 

 

i know they might seem like noob questions, and to whmcs i guess am, I'm just trying to build a mental image of how best to roll this great tool out in my environment.

 

 

thanks again for your time, and the effort.

 

 

Cain

[WHMCS John]

Hi,

To answer your questions:

 

1. Yes this is absolutely possible with WHMCS.

 

2. Could you elaborate exactly what you're wanting to achieve here? WHMCS needs to be able to make curl connections out in order to access our licensing server.

[Cain72]

Hi John,

 

Thanks for your reply,

 

sorry i havent replied back sooner, ive been playing catch up with WHMCS

 

Great to hear that it can be run on a seperate stand alone machines.

 

My idea was to run a whmcs server that would talk to seperate standalone virtualmin servers, from what i understand whmcs can fill up each server with upto 200 domains/accounts per system (im vague that one) ?

 

keeping it realistic however at this stage running two virtualmin servers should be enough for now, at capacity ill be looking for something other than virtualmin to handle 400 + accounts.

 

anyhow, concept is as follows,

 

[whmcs+company website - public facing]

[virtsrv1] + [virtsrv2]

[dnssrv ~ ns1. ns2.]

 

 

Thats the seperate system layout, im sure someone has already set it up this way. any pointers or pearls of wisdom are greatly appreciated.

 

 

thank your for your time john.

 

 

Cain

 

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oh and btw john this isnt on VPS server setup, this is all locally hosted hardware etc.

 

Cain

[Cain72]

can i please get a stable working version of apache and php that whmcs is functioning correctly on.

 

im going to guess that the latest version of apache and php (5.5) arent covered just yet ?

 

the reason im asking is that im trying to resolve some whmcs install black page issues realted to ioncube.

 

thanks again for your time guys.

 

Cain

 

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nevermind i got it ;P

 

"Note: PHP Version 5.5 is not supported at this time. "

[WHMCS John]

Hi,

My testing server is running:

 

CentOS 6 w/ cPanel

PHP Version 5.3.24

Apache/2.2.24

 

If that helps any?

[Cain72]

Hi John,

 

thats funny,

 

as of last night i made some changes too, so now im running:

 

CentOS cpanel 6 / cpanel + whm

php (current with the centOS install, so i imagine, 5.3+)

apache 2.x

 

so far, quite impressed with the cpanel system, definately very user friendly config/management wise.

 

 

However... today, after the whmcs patch, my "fresh" install of whmcs 538full, after running through the install.php wizard i recieved "Language Folder Not Found" granted i did rename the admin folder and updated the configuration.php as noted in the installation docs but for some reason it didnt like it. (im going to try another clean reinstall again after i post this to see if i havent missed something).

 

i gotta say, i am very impressed so far with the whmcs system, you guys have seriously done a great job.

 

 

Cain

[Cain72]

ok all installed everything seems ok, and running smoothly,

 

i'd like to start looking at SSL certs for the WHMCS install, i did a quick search for info within the docs, maybe i missed it, and i remember seeing within the WHMCS admin, something about SSL certs i just cant remember where i saw it,

 

can anyone flick me a link or two in regards to setting up SSL cert's for WHMCS,

 

thanks again for your time

 

Cain

 

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LOL, nevermind i got it

 

RE: SSL + WHMCS

http://www.whmcs.com/ssl-certificates/

 

http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=83026

 

i dont know why i post half the time .. lol

 

Cain

[WHMCS John]

Hi,

Thanks for following up with the solution, I'm sure other users will find that useful in future.

[Cain72]

Hi guys

 

just a quick update,

 

for any of the new guys looking into the whole SSL cert install thing whith whmcs (And i know its probably common knowledge to some),

 

dont waste your time with a single domain SSL cert .. buy a (*.yourdomain.com) wildcard it will cost a little more but it gives you the coverage over anything under your domain, eg: http://www.yourdomain.com, yourmail.yourdomain.com, etc.

 

oh and if your running cpanel along side whmcs you can use the same cert in cpanel as well, even if its on a seperate server, you dont need two certs.

 

anyhow hope that helps someone, im off to work on my whmcs templates ;P

 

 

Cain

[Cain72]

ok guys, i have a new one for all the whmcs guru's

 

 

im running whmcs on a stand-alone server seperate from cpanel,

 

i want to block all access to the admin login page, period.. apart from select IP addresses.

 

now as most of the cpanel users would know you can achieve this via the host.allow method, blocking all but a specific IP to access this page,

and yeah i know you could change the admin folder to whatever but you still have access to the page..

 

is there a way to block all apart from a specific IP from accessing admin login page in a similar way cpanel have for their system?

 

im going to sound like a newb here but from what i can see whmcs doesnt run as a daemon, unless im wrong? so im guessing its going to make it hard to use this method ?

 

does anyone have any battle harden suggestions at all ?

 

thanks for your time in advanced.

 

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just an insane after thought i guess,

 

what if you created a Daemon that caught all traffic to the admin page, if the IP isnt on the Host Access Control list, then it gets dumped to a blacklist and blocked for even trying to get that far (consider someone finds your hidden admin folder), that way, after you configure the Host Access Control list to allow specific IP's to PASS, they gain access to the admin page, in short it does nothing more then run the Host Access Control list if your IP is on it your all good..

 

in essence, an admin page "Bouncer" if you will.. lol

 

or am i reaching with that one ?

 

Cain

Edited August 12, 2014 by Cain72
after thought