Thanks

But you will need Postfix to future-proof your vps, sure, and to change the RDNS.

Once done with that, provided you've covered the rest of the Bible (WordPress may be ignored for non-WP'ers) go and add your sites.

.. Having added your first site, I recommend reading Add Web Sites Nginx Cheatsheet to speed up the process for any others.

Otherwise, take a cursory glance at the growing* VPS Admin follow up series - Maintain Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. V-P-S Admin - because at some stage you'll likely need to refer to some of its detail.

* yes, it will be growing again soon! Promise.

@Brett .. er, that sorted then with phpbb3? Any special config? For forums I tend to use Simple Machines, don't know anything about phpbb3.

Very big thanks for this amazing tutorial series Awesome work. I were able to set up my webserver and it works pretty well.

I have a problem with setting up gmail apps. When adding mx records, I have added the gmail ones, after my mail.mypage.com MX record. Gmail takes some time to verify them, but fails saying that "Your current MX records contain incorrect value(s)" and points my servers mail MX record. Is there a way to resolve this??

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I've differed slightly in some of my settings for the postfix section of the guide on here (that's part 10). The webserver will be serving multiple domainnames, so I thought that it wouldn't be as simple as setting the hostname to resolve to a singular name.

Besides that though, I havn't been able to get the mail() function to work (receiving an email sent via it internally or externally). Worse is that I'll get no errors and just a success in the console when trying it as well.

I first found out that the sending of email via the php for me wasn't working when a phpbb3 board never sent out emails - doh!

I got Google Apps working, including mail, verified, etc. But the address to go to read my mail from Google Apps is "http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com". Google said that to change it to "http://mail.mydomain.com/" I'd have to modify the CNAME records for "mail" and a verification string. I already have a mail A/AAAA record - would that affect things up? I'd also like to add that I actually haven't installed Postfix yet. And I haven't changed my reverse DNS. I want Google Apps to manage my e-mail from "http://mail.mydomain.com/" - how can I do that and what should I do next?

Thanks,
Kevin

sorry for delay .. damn, been rebuilding both my boxes, well out of the loop. bloody motherboard cracked on one, the other, well, i just wanted the hassle.

you sorted? looked at yer pastie. thing is, it varies from web host to host .. you need to ask them or the forum there. personally, i don't bother going that route anymore, which probably is terribly unprofessional, but it's just so easy to scp an authentication page, way quicker than logging into and navigating my manager. my manager gets lonely, i think. that's got to be a good sign

webmin, you say .. webmin CP with Nginx - last i heard there was veeeeeeeeeery sluggish development going on with any nginx-mod. i like webmin tho, nice and light, as cp's go. if or when (i'd guess when) that is available, or more reluctantly any other cp, i'll for sure be adding a bunch of tuts about installing and using it.

I'm giving the Google Apps a try here, and am currently at the point of setting the MX records up. Although every vps provider have there own way of setting things up, one option not listed is a webmin route, which means you install bind on your server, and go by that.

When using a stock webmin install, they can edit or copy paste settings into their domain file. I'm trying to set up brettjames.au.com , and that would be in "/etc/bind/brettjames.au.com.hosts"

Currently though I'm having trouble putting in the settings, here is how my mx records are setup:
http://pastie.org/636278

Could you suggest a change in order to have it appear in a lookup?

As a sidenote, Google recommends using dnsstuff, because it updates live, instead of a cached response. Example:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/legacy/?ToolFormName=googlemx&domain=brettjames.au.com&r=235660

That would main any changes would be noticed straight away, avoiding you having to change, wait, then change again if needed..

Tell me, how do you know about the false positives?! Pls tell me more.