Home partitioning - HELP

[bin_asc]

I want to install cPanel on my home PC, and am using CentOS 4.4, recently downloaded. And I need to figure out the best scheme for partitioning. I`m using for the install vmware, and have alloted 20 GB for the install. I want to use this environment, and license, only for testing various stuff on cPanel, so really, it`s better to install it home, then keep paying for server reinstalls. Can anyone suggest a good partitioning scheme for a 20 GB HDD ? If necesary, I can increase it to 30 GB, but i`d want to stick to 20 GB. I really look forward to your replies :D

 

[kernow]

http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/

 

[bin_asc]

Um, that`s for a 40 GB hdd, I have a 20 GB... I can`t just cut all in half...Anyone else with a bit more experience ?

 

[Lyttek]

Keep the system partitions about the same... cut space on the /home partition(s)

The system needs the space it needs regardless of drive size... the user space /home is much more flexible.

 

[RandyO]

Use the settings as shown, The /home simply fills the availalbe space with the settings provided. If you trim any of the other partitions, you will probably have problems

 

[bin_asc]

So basically, I can play with home space, but rest leave it as is in the WHM documentation. Correct ?

 

[RandyO]

So basically, I can play with home space, but rest leave it as is in the WHM documentation. Correct ?

Essentially, yes... /home should be allowed to use the available disk space typically

 

[bin_asc]

darn it, I installed cpanel, everything goes fine but at the end the install keeps going with :

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It just doesn`t end ! Help !

 

[chirpy]

How long have you waited? The install process can take several hours. You can also check the /var/log/cpanel*.log thread files for information on what it is doing unless it has gone beyond that stage.

 

[bin_asc]

Well, about a day ... I know chirpy, I checked the forum and got the same answer that you posted :P.... I pressed CTRL+C to cancel the operation, odd that it continued to install it after that ( why didn`t I do this like 22 hours ago... ) Anyway, I got the blasted thing installed, but now have problems with forwarding ports to the install.... . I have a static ip at hom, 1 trendnet router, and I dunno how I should forward the ips to get cPanel to work with my ip. Any ideas anyone ? A good linux guru would help...

 

[RandyO]

Regardless of the router, Cpanel will see your IP at your home. I would set the linux box in a DMZ and allow CSF/LFD to do the firewall duties for now.

Even without that DMZ just use your public IP when setting up the box and communicating with Cpanel.

If you have other sysetms on the router, you should set up port forwarding to the linux box on all used ports (the DMZ eliminates all this headache)

 

[bin_asc]

Yeah, but, even though I did that, still no luck.... I have a router, and vmware has a system for communicating with the internet ( bridging and nat ), that I just can`t figure out.

 

[RandyO]

can you see the box from outside your LAN?

 

[bin_asc]

Finally got it to work, it was hard, but cPanel works :D

Here`s what I did. I had to set vmware on bridged network only, so my router would assign the virtual server an ip, and not vmware. Then, I had to remove the ip from the DMZ. It just didn`t work on DMZ settings. Then, I just set rules, in the NAT, and everything works. Too bad trendnet only allows 10 rules only for port forwarding (

Oh well... thanks randy and rest for the help.

Moderators can close this thread.

 

[RandyO]

Sort of odd... the dmz is free of any firewall rules or filters (the whole point) must have been some kind of conflict with vmware. (I just have PC's everywhere)

 

[bin_asc]

Thing is, I need to forward common cpanel ports from my 192.168.x.x ip to the exterior one, because I have 2 pcs in my network.Even with DMZ on, it wouldn`t matter, as I still need to tell the router which ports to get from where.