VHCS On Ubuntu

I was given the project of DNS entries for several customers. After playing around with BIND9 for several hours (I actually got it to work for all sites EXCEPT http://sitename.tld – it worked fine for subdomains), a colleague suggested that I try VHCS. VHCS is a free software suite that allows for Virtual Hosts, DNS, and other web related items to be shared and easily managed between several groups. You can grab more data here: VHCS.net

I also chose to put this on Ubuntu because debian packages are easy to install, Ubuntu is fully supported by a huge user base, and Ubuntu also uses a very small footprint.

Once you download the suite, follow the Install directions all the way until you get an error similar to this:
If specified by -literal_key, then the key length must be equal to the chosen cipher's key length of 56 bytes at /var/www/vhcs2/engine/setup/../vhcs2_common_code.pl line 1443
Compilation failed in require at ./vhcs2-setup line (line whatever)
.

Here’s the fix:
nano /var/www/vhcs2/engine/vhcs2_common_code.pl
Control + W and search for db_pass_key
Any time you see 'key' => $main::db_pass_key fill in the following ABOVE the line:
'keysize' => 32,

Then rerun the script ./vhcs2-setup

P.S. By the way even, the instructions don’t really mention that you have to copy some folders over. Make sure you copy everything in the vhcs2-2.4.7.1/configs folder to /etc/vhcs2/ otherwise it will fail out. If you get some postfix errors, that’s probably ok.

P.S. Part 2 There is a much easier product to setup: ISPConfig. You can find it at ISPConfig.com. I recommend using ISPConfig as it is actively maintained.

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