Sentora Feedback and Ideas

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We are aware of the user situation. It was done the way it is because Sentora was originally built to be able to be used on *nix as well as Windows. Since we have pretty much dropped Windows support, changing the user methods is part of our future changes.

Good to know! Can I help make this happen faster ? Where are you discussing this change ?

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Another thing that I would like to put into sentora is generating an SSL cert with lets encrypt automatically for the sentora panel domain and set config to SSL by default.

I don't see why this is not the default setup.

Comment all lines in welcome.conf file (disable Testing 123 apache page) :
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
#Comment out all active lines in welcome.conf

Comment Listen 443 line in ssl.conf :
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
#Comment out that line like this :
#Listen 443


Install Lets Encypt :
yum install mod_ssl openssl yum-utils certbot-apache
certbot --apache


Install sentora panel SSL certificate :
Into SentoraCP go to Sentora -> Admin -> Module Admin => Apache Config
Copy and paste into Global Sentora entry:
Redirect Permanent / https://sentora.domain.com/

Check "Force Update" checkbox. Save.

vi /etc/sentora/configs/apache/httpd-vhosts-ssl.conf
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin zadmin@localhost
DocumentRoot "/etc/sentora/panel/"
ServerName sentora.domain.com
ErrorLog "/var/sentora/logs/sentora-error.log"
CustomLog "/var/sentora/logs/sentora-access.log" combined
CustomLog "/var/sentora/logs/sentora-bandwidth.log" common
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
<Directory "/etc/sentora/panel/">
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sentora.domain.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sentora.domain.com/privkey.pem
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sentora.domain.com/chain.pem
</VirtualHost>

vi /etc/sentora/configs/apache/httpd.conf
#At the end of the file, add this line :
Include /etc/sentora/configs/apache/httpd-vhosts-ssl.conf

service httpd restart

Auto renew all lets encrypt certificates at 3 am every day so they do not expire :

vi /etc/crontab
#Add this line :
0 3 * * * root certbot renew

service crond reload

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And if we auto-generate an SSL cert for the sentora domain, we could use the same cert for FTP/TLS :

Create /etc/proftpd/tls.conf file :

mkdir /etc/proftpd
vi /etc/proftpd/tls.conf

<IfModule mod_tls.c>
TLSEngine on
TLSLog /var/log/proftpd/tls.log
TLSProtocol SSLv23
TLSRSACertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sentora.domain.com/fullchain.pem
TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sentora.domain.com/privkey.pem
TLSRequired on
TLSOptions AllowClientRenegotiations NoSessionReuseRequired
TLSRenegotiate required off
</IfModule>


Edit /etc/proftpd.conf file :
vi /etc/proftpd.conf

#Add these lines to end of file :
PassivePorts 55000 60000
Include /etc/proftpd/tls.conf


Restart proftpd :
service proftpd restart