Tag: VPS

   Last time, I created a repository for my own. This time, I’ll write ‘How to use the repository’.

   Log in a CentOS7 I want to use the repository on, for example the VPS, the VM for development environment, and so on.

1. Install ‘yum-plugin-priorities’.
   Because Base, Updates and Extras repositories have high priority, CentOS doesn’t use my repository package if the same rpm package exists in these three repositories when they are enabled and aren’t changed their priorities. Of course, you can handle this by manual each time, but I prefer using ‘yum-plugin-priorities’ for my frequently used repositories.
   $ sudo yum install yum-plugin-priorities
    
   I think you have to set their priority for frequently used repositories. How do we know what repositories we enable? You can get the information by the next command.
   $ yum repolist
    
   If you do ‘yum repolist all’, you can get the information about all repositories configured.
2. Create a myrepo.repo in the directory /etc/yum.repos.d.
   $ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo
   Its text is the followings.
   [myrepo]
   name=o6asan’s original RPM packages
   baseurl=http://www17130ue.sakura.ne.jp/~myrepo/x86_64/
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan
   priority=1
3. Add ‘priority=2‘ to the last line of [base], [updates] and [extras] in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.
4. $ wget http://www17130ue.sakura.ne.jp/~myrepo/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan
   $ sudo mv RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/

   Now, I’m ready to use my repository. When I use my repository at the first time, CentOS7 asks about importing RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan and imports it if I give ‘yes’.

Note) How to delete GPG public key from a client PC.
   The client PC doesn’t have the private key. So ‘gpg --delete-key <email@address>’ gives ‘Unknown system error’. The next command works.
　　$ sudo rpm -e [package]

   For that, you need an exact package name. You can get it by the following.
　　$ rpm -q gpg-pubkey --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release} --> %{summary}n'

   For example, you have the following about CentOS-7 Key.
　　gpg-pubkey-f4a80eb5-53a7ff4b –> gpg(CentOS-7 Key (CentOS 7 Official Signing Key) )
   So you can delete it by the next command.
　　$ sudo rpm -e gpg-pubkey-f4a80eb5-53a7ff4b

   I want to configure my system with event + suEXEC + FPM on さくらの VPS.
   For that I rebuilt php.rpms with ‘--enable-fpm’, but I got fed up with all the dependency things when I used ‘rpm -ivh’. So I decided to create a repository for my own, ha-ha.

On the VPS
1. $ sudo adduser --gid xxxx myrepo
   ‘myrepo’ is a user for the repository and ‘xxxx’ is the gid of the httpd user group.
   $ sudo passwd myrepo
2. $ sudo chmod 710 /home/myrepo
3. $ sudo su - myrepo
4. $ mkdir public_html
5. $ cd public_html
6. $ mkdir x86_64
7. $ exit

   I haven’t written it yet, but I already configure Apache httpd for suEXEC Support. So I have new User and Group on the httpd.conf. If you use the settings on this post for your repository, read my words about httpd configuration on the post as your words on your system.
 
   I removed ‘Options Indexes’ from the httpd conf files, but want to show the indexes of the repository directory. For that I need to use ‘Options Indexes’ in the .htaccess file. So I did the following things.

About httpd on the VPS
1. Change the followings about the userdir.conf (/etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf).
   UserDir enabled normuser1 —>> UserDir enabled normuser1 myrepo
   　　　　↑ This is not for .htaccess but for the user ‘myrepo’.
   AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
   —>> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options=Indexes
2. $ sudo systemctl restart httpd.service
3. $ sudo su - myrepo
4. $ cd public_html/x86_64
5. $ vi .htaccess
   Its text is ‘Options Indexes’.
6. $ chmod 640 .htaccess
7. $ exit

On the VM for development environment.
1. Log on as the user ‘rpmbuilder’ and rebuild all the rpm files I want.
    
   Note 1) On the post ‘First VPS #5’, I wrote how to rebuild php.rpm. That’s nothing wrong, but yum gives ‘Package PACKAGE_NAME.rpm is not signed’ when I used my repository. We need a signature for rpm files when we use them by yum though we can avoid it by the option ‘--nogpgcheck’ and I used the option for my filezilla.rpm installation.
2. Add my signature to the rpm files.
   $ rpm --addsign rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*
    
   Of course, I need GPG Keys before this step.
   • Log on the VM as a root privilege user.
     $ sudo gpg --gen-key
     $ sudo gpg --export -a 'o6asan' > RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan
     RPM-GPG-KEY-o6asan is my public key file. I upload this to /x86_64 in myrepo’s DocumentRoot on the VPS by Filezilla client.
     $ sudo gpg -o file.secret --export-secret-key o6asan
     file.secret is my private key file. I move this to rpmbuilder’s home directory.
     $ sudo mv /home/vmowner/file.secret /home/rpmbuilder/file.secret
   • Log on the VM as the user ‘rpmbuilder’
     $ gpg --import file.secret
     This command imports both secret and public keys.
      
     $ vi .rpmmacros
     Add the next two lines.
     %_signature gpg
%_gpg_name <Owner name>
      
     Note 2) Actually, I wanted to create the keys as ‘rpmbuilder’ because I rebuild the rpm files as ‘rpmbuilder’. But I couldn’t. To create GPG Keys requires root privilege.
3. Upload all the rpm files to /x86_64 in myrepo’s DocumentRoot on the VPS.
4. On the VPS.
   $ sudo yum install createrepo
   $ sudo createrepo /path to/x86_64

   Now, I have a repository for my own and the URL is http://www17130ue.sakura.ne.jp/~myrepo/x86_64/.
   I’ll write ‘How to use the repository for my own’ for the next post.

   My original plan for this post was to write an article about suEXEC Support. I want to configure my system with event + suEXEC + FPM on さくらの VPS. About event + suEXEC on Apache httpd it’s OK by CentOS7 default. But about FPM I found a big problem. The default php.rpm of CentOS 7 seems to have no ‘–enable-fpm‘ option at its build. This information you can have by the following command. For this you need to install the package ‘php-devel’. We cannot get the information by ‘php -i’ when we use CentOS rpms.
$ php-config --configure-options
 
   So I have to rebuild the php.rpm with ‘–enable-fpm’. Is this really necessary? Well, OK (^^;).
   I don’t build rpms on my VPS because I don’t want to install devel packages on the VPS, so I created a virtual PC for development environment in the NJ2100. For the virtual PC I used VMware(R) Player 6.0.4 build-2249910 and CentOS7 (Select ‘Development and Creative Workstation’ and check ‘Development Tools’). See the post “How to create a Virtual PC in Windows7 and run CentOS6.4 on it” for reference.
 
   I almost had the same results except about Ethernet. The NJ2100 has SiS Ethernet Controller and CentOS7 on VMware(R) Player couldn’t find the device out. How can I fix this issue? I found a lot of pages about it on the Internet and I’ll recommend this page for you though it’s Japanese.
 
   They tell me the same thing, i.e. use vmnetcfg.exe and vmnetcfglib.dll. They say that VMware Workstation Free Trial version like VMware-workstation-full-10.0.x-xxxxxxx.exe includes the two files. But there was a problem. We can download VMware Workstation 10 still now if we need a production version, but about Free Trial version we can download VMware Workstation 11 only from the vender site right now. Though I downloaded ‘VMware-workstation-full-11.0.0-2305329.exe’ and took a look in the file, I couldn’t find the two files.
 
   I looked for VMware Workstation 10 on the Internet. FINALLY, I got it from filehorse.com and had the two files. Do you need them? I made a zip for you. Is this act gray or illegal? Anyway I had a VM for development environment.
 
   Now I’ll write to rebuild the php.rpm. All procedures I did on the virtual machine and see the official page for reference.

1. I make an unprivileged user(rpmbuilder) for building RPMs and and create the user mockbuild which is a no logon user. It seems to be used by the command ‘rpm’ and originated in IUS.
   $ sudo useradd rpmbuilder
   $ sudo passwd rpmbuilder
    
   $ sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin mockbuild
2. Create directories for RPM building under rpmbuilder’s home.
   $ sudo su - rpmbuilder
   $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
   $ echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros
3. Download the source rpm from vault.centos.org.
   $ wget http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/updates/Source/SPackages/
php-5.4.16-23.el7_0.3.src.rpm
4. Install.
   $ rpm -ivh php-5.4.16-23.el7_0.3.src.rpm
5. Edit php.spec
   $ $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
   $ vi php.spec
   Add ‘–enable-fpm ‘ as the line 869.
6. $ rpmbuild -ba php.spec
    
   It shows packages resolving Dependencies. Install all of them. After that try again.
   $ rpmbuild -ba php.spec
    
   Now I had a php.rpm with ‘–enable-fpm’ option.

   By the way, my VM has GUI, so I wanted to use FileZilla as FTP client software. But I couldn’t find its rpm on the official repositories. Then I made a filezilla.rpm. For this I needed the package wxGTK3-devel, so I installed epel repository.

1. $ sudo yum install epel-release
2. $ wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/source/
SRPMS/f/filezilla-3.10.0-1.fc22.src.rpm
   $ rpm -ivh filezilla-3.10.0-1.fc22.src.rpm
   $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
   $ rpmbuild -ba filezilla.spec

   That’s it!

   Yesterday morning WordPress 4.0.1 came. They say it is an update for fixing security issues, especially XSS. I encourage you to update to the version immediately if its not updated automatically. When I read “An extremely unlikely hash collision could allow a user’s account to be compromised, that also required that they haven’t logged in since 2008 (I wish I were kidding).”, I laughed despite myself. But I wouldn’t be laughing (Sigh).

   CentOS7 provides SSH feature by default. After changing OS, I connected to the VPS by SSH client named TeraTerm. Of course, you can use other SSH client software, for example, PuTTY, WinSCP, etc. The default SSH server version is 6.4p1-8 now.

   The default setting was less secure because I could connect to the VPS as a root user with root-password. So I changed the settings.

   Before this, I made a public key and a private key by TeraTerm. I set a passphrase to the private key. Of course, I can make the keys on the server, but in such a case I have to have the private key via the Internet. I hate this.

||First, to edit Sudoers File||

1. Log in VPS Control Panel and click “リモートコンソール”, and then click “VNCコンソールを開く”.
2. Click “HTML5モードで開く” within 60 seconds. QEMU pop-up in another window.
3. # usermod -G wheel centos　　<— “centos” is one of normal users I add to the Sudoers File.
   # visudo
   The Sudoers File opens.
4. Search the line includes “wheel” by the command ‘/wheel’.
   If you find “#” at the head of “%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL”, remove “#”. But I found no “#” with the head, so I had nothing to do.
   Note) How to use visudo is the same as how to use the vim editor.
5. Quit visudo.
6. # su - centos
7. $ sudo shutdown -h now
8. At the first time you use ‘sudo’, you have the followings.We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

   
   #1) Respect the privacy of others.
   #2) Think before you type.
   #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

   And it requires your password like this.
   [sudo] password for centos:

9. You can confirm the server halted at the page “VPS ホーム”. Reboot the server.

||Second, to install the package policycoreutils-python||

1. Log on QEMU again. Install the package policycoreutils-python because I need the ‘semanage’ command for changing SSH port.
   # yum install policycoreutils-python

||Third, to change SSH settings||

1. Run TeraTerm (ttermpro.exe). Log in VPS as the user “centos” with password.
2. Drag&Drop the public key (id_rsa.pub) to TeraTerm Window. TeraTerm has SCP(Secure Copy Protocol) feature. Click “SCP” button.
3. $ mkdir .ssh
   $ chmod 700 .ssh
   $ cat id_rsa.pub > .ssh/authorized_keys
   $ chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
   $ rm -f id_rsa.pub
4. $ su -
   Password:　　<— Type the root password.
5. # vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
   The sshd_config opens.
6. #Port22　　—>　　Port****
   #PermitRootLogin yes　　—>　　PermitRootLogin no
   PasswordAuthentication yes　　—>　　PasswordAuthentication no
    
   Overwrite and save the sshd_config.

   # systemctl restart sshd.service

   Note) **** is one of the numbers other than well-known ports. But the numbers are 0 – 65535.

7. # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=****/tcp
   # firewall-cmd --reload
   # semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp ****
8. # exit
   $ exit
   The connection is terminated.
9. Run TeraTerm (ttermpro.exe) again. Log in VPS as the user “centos” with key authentication. At the time, use the new SSH port (****) and you need the passphrase of the private key.
10. I used ‘sudo’ command via SSH.$ sudo firewall-cmd --list-all
    public (default, active)
    interfaces: eth0
    sources:
    services: dhcpv6-client ssh
    ports: ****/tcp
    masquerade: no
    forward-ports:
    icmp-blocks:
    rich rules:

   Mission complete!!

   By the way, I updated my PHP to 5.6.3 on Nov. 15th. ChangLog

   くりくりさん’s comment on the Japanese blog inspired me to use CentOS7 on さくらのVPS. I began to use a free trial for two weeks on 18th.

   Unfortunately, their service is only in Japanese and only for people who live in Japan. But, I think their service is well if you live in Japan. So, I’ll introduce how to register for it.

1. Go to さくらのVPS and click “お申し込み” (fig.1).
2. The page “さくら VPS のお申し込み” shows up. Click “利用規約の確認へ” (fig.2).
3. The page “以下の約款及び個人情報の取扱いについてよくご確認ください。” shows up. Print out “基本約款” and “個人情報の取扱いについて” and read them thoroughly. Check the radio button “同意する” and click “つぎへ –>” (fig.3).
4. The page “お客様の情報をご入力ください” shows up.

   

   
   Complete the forms about followings on the page. (*) things are required.
   • メールアドレス(*)：　　E-mail(*)：
   • ご契約者の種別(*)：　　Type of Contractant(*)：
   • ご契約者名(*)：　　Contractant Name(*)：　　<--- Last-name-first order.

   • 

     ご契約者名カナ(*)：　　Contractant Name カナ(*)：
   • 生年月日(*)：　　Birth Date(*)：
   • 性別(*)：　　Sex(*)：
   • 郵便番号(*)：　　Zip code(*)：
   • ご住所(*)：　　Prefecture(*)：
   • 街区名・番地等(*)：　　Address…(*)：
   • 建物名等：　　Building：
   • 電話番号(*)：（※携帯可）　　(Mobile) Phone #(*)：
   • FAX番号：　　FAX #：

   Click “つぎへ –>”.

5. The page “会員メニューへログインするためのパスワードを指定してください” shows up.
   • パスワード：　　Pasword:
   • 「ひみつ」の質問 ：　　Secret Question:　　<--- Select from the pull-down menu or you can make an original question.
   • 「ひみつ」の答え：　　Answer:

   Click “つぎへ –>”.

6. The page “サービスプラン” shows up.
   • Select さくらのVPS 1G　　<--- If you use a free trial for two weeks.
   • Select a residence 石狩/東京/大阪

   Click “つぎへ –>”.

7. The page “Payment” shows up.
   • Select 毎月払い/年払い　　monthly/yearly
   • There are several Payment Methods on the page but you can only use “クレジットカード (Credit Card)” if you use a free trial for two weeks.
   • There are some important notes on the page. Especially, the two written in red are very important.
     ・お申込から2週間後に自動で本登録になります。キャンセルの場合は、お客様にて行っていただく必要がございます。
     ・This temporary registration becomes a formally registration after 2 weeks from your application. If you want the cancellation within the trial period, you have to do it by yourself.
     ・会員メニューから「本登録」をするとキャンセルが行えなくなります。
     ・You can manually change the status of the registration from temporary to formally by your account menu. But if you did it, you lose your right about the cancellation even if your trial period doesn’t end.

   Click “つぎへ –>”.



8. The page “最終のご確認” shows up.
   This is a confirmation page. Print it out if you need.
9. The page “以下の通りお申込を受付いたしました” shows up. The page gives you the followings.
   • 会員ID　　User ID
   • プラン名　　Service Name
   • サービスコード　　Service ID
   • メールアドレス　　E-mail

   Click “会員メニューへお進みください” (fig.4).

   Now you reach your account page. Logout. The temporary registration completely.

||How to log in VPS Control Panel||

1. Go to VPSコントロールパネル and log in.
   You can find IPアドレス (IP address) and パスワード (Password) on the email “[さくらのVPS] 仮登録完了のお知らせ”.
2. パスワード変更　　Chage password　　<--- This password is for VPSコントロールパネル.

||How to install CentOS7||

1. The default OS is CentOS6, but I want to use CentOS7. So I installed it from “OS再インストール”.
2. Go to “OS再インストール” and click “カスタムOSインストールへ”.
3. Select “CentOS 7 x86_64” from the drop-down menu and click “確認 (confirm)”.
4. Click “実行 (execute)”.
5. Click “HTML5モードで開く” within 60 seconds. QEMU pop-up in another window.
6. About instllation, see CentOS 7.
   While the instillation you need to set up root-password and a normal user.
7. The instillation might take time. When it has finished, you have the message “Server disconnected…”. Buck to “VPSホーム” and boot the server (仮想サーバ操作:起動). The “ステータス (status)” is changed from “停止” to “稼働中”.
8. Now I have CentOS7 as VPS OS.

   It was in trouble during the installation that the bottom of QEMU did not appear at all. So I had to handle “Reclaim space” and “Begin Installation” with my intuition and [TAB] and [ENTER] keys. Oops!