vQadmin

Info: http://www.inter7.com/vqadmin-sysadmin-webcontrol/
Download (local copy): vqadmin-2.3.7

vqadmin is a web based control panel that allows system administrators to perform actions which require root access — for example, adding and deleting domains.

Install

The patch we are going to apply is addressed to solve several issues. You can get some of these individual patches in this folder. More info are inside the patch file itself.

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/tar/vqadmin-2.3.7.tar.gz
wget https://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/vqadmin/vqadmin-2.3.7_20200226.patch
tar xzf vqadmin-2.3.7.tar.gz
cd vqadmin-2.3.7
chown -R root.root .
patch -p1 < ../vqadmin-2.3.7_20200226.patch

QMAILROOT=/var/www/qmail
./configure \
        --enable-qmaildir=/var/qmail \
        --enable-cgibindir=${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin
make
make install-strip

vQadmin will be installed in /var/www/qmail/cgi-bin/vqadmin. Eventually adjust it to your apache directory.

Setting up Apache

vQadmin will require it's own CGI-allowed, access-protected, directory to operate. Inside the virtual host you have to put

<Directory ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/vqadmin>
    Require all denied 
    Options ExecCGI
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

And since if you install vqadmin in something else than /cgi-bin it will not work because it’s hardcoded you have to define /cgi-bin as a ScriptAlias

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/

This is my virtual host, in which I have both vQadmin and qmailadmin. I will explain the alias /image later.

Define QMAILROOT /var/www/qmail
Define LOGDIR    /var/log/apache 

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName yourdomain.net
        DocumentRoot ${QMAILROOT}
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
        ErrorLog  ${LOGDIR}/qmailadmin_error_log
        CustomLog ${LOGDIR}/qmailadmin_access_log common
        <Directory ${QMAILROOT}>
            AllowOverride None
            Require all granted
        </Directory>
        <Directory ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin>
            AllowOverride None
            Options ExecCGI
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        # QMAILADMIN
        Alias /files/ ${QMAILROOT}/qmailadmin/files/
        <Directory ${QMAILROOT}/qmailadmin/files>
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        # VQADMIN
        <Directory ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/vqadmin>
            Require all denied
            Options ExecCGI
            AllowOverride AuthConfig
        </Directory>
        Alias /images/ ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/vqadmin/images/
        <Directory ${QMAILROOT}/cgi-bin/vqadmin/images>
            Require all granted
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Note that there are both qmailadmin and vqadmin on the same host

Setting up the access authorization

You can see that in the directory where vQadmin was installed there is an .htaccess file:

# cd /var/www/qmail/cgi-bin/vqadmin

# ls -la
total 148
drwxr-xr-x 4 vpopmail vchkpw   4096 2010-07-26 21:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root     apache   4096 2010-07-26 21:43 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody   apache    112 2009-08-04 17:32 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw   4096 2009-08-17 11:26 html/
-rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw    865 2009-08-17 15:03 vqadmin.acl
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root     root   122592 2010-07-26 21:53 vqadmin.cgi*

# more .htaccess
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/httpdpwd/vqadmin.passwd
AuthName "Authentication required"
require valid-user

/usr/local/etc/httpdpwd/vqadmin.passwd is the file where you have to store the account that is going to have access to vQadmin dir via httpd. Create an user:

# mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/httpdpw
# chown apache.apache /usr/local/etc/httpdpw
# /usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -bc /usr/local/etc/httpdpwd/vqadmin.passwd admin [password]

# more /usr/local/etc/httpdpwd/vqadmin.passwd
admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

That's it. Open the browser and look for https://yourdomain.net/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi

The "Invalid language file" problem

The patch we applyed should have fixed this language file issue.

On some browsers you can face an "Invalid language file" error message. This is because vqadmin looks for a language folder based on the browser language setting. For example, the vqadmin's italian language file is it, but the browser's language setting is it-it. To solve this issue locate the /vqadmin/html folder and create a symbolic link as follows:

cd /var/www/qmail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/html
ln -s it it-it

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Unknown Authz provider: valid-user

Kenny Lee September 9, 2020 06:42

Hi Mr Roberto,

i got this error message in my apache error.log file:

[Wed Sep 09 12:37:51.904875 2020]  /var/www/qmail/cgi-bin/vqadmin/.htaccess: Unknown Authz provider: valid-user

which area i need to look into?

thank you

vQadmin

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Setting up Apache

Setting up the access authorization

The "Invalid language file" problem

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