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Locations of configuration and log files of mojor components

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Apache

  • On RHEL/CentOS: Apache config files are placed under /etc/httpd/.

    • Main config file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
    • Module config files are placed under /etc/httpd/conf.d/ (old releases) or /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/.
    • Root directory used to store web applications is /var/www, document root is /var/www/html/.
    • Log files are placed under /var/www/httpd/.
  • On Debian/Ubuntu: Apache config files are placed under /etc/apache2.

    • Main config file is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
    • Module config files are placed under /etc/apache2/conf.d/ (old releases) or /etc/apache2/conf-available/.
    • Root directory used to store web applications is /usr/share/apache2, document root is /var/www/ (old releases) or /var/www/html/.
    • Log files are placed under /var/www/apache2/.
  • On FreeBSD: Apache config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/apache2.

    • Main config file is /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
    • Module config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/apache2/Includes/.
    • Root directory used to store web applications is /usr/local/www/, document root is /usr/local/www/apache22/data/.
    • Log files are placed under /var/log/, main log files are /var/log/httpd-access.log and /var/log/httpd-error.log.
  • On OpenBSD: Apache (the one shipped in OpenBSD base system) config files are placed under /var/www/conf.

    • Main config file is /var/www/conf/httpd.conf.
    • Module config files are placed under /var/www/conf/modules/.
    • Root directory used to store web applications is /var/www/, document root is /var/www/htdocs/.
    • Log files are placed under /var/www/logs/.

Nginx

  • On Linux and OpenBSD: Nginx config files are placed under /etc/nginx/, uWSGI config files are placed under /etc/uwsgi/.
  • On FreeBSD: Nginx config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/nginx, uWSGI config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/uwsgi/.

Main config files are nginx.conf and default.conf.

  • On Linux and FreeBSD: log files are placed under /var/log/nginx/.
  • On OpenBSD: log files are placed under /var/www/logs/ (same as Apache).

Postfix

  • on Linux and OpenBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /etc/postfix/.
  • on FreeBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/postfix/.

Main config files:

  • main.cf: contains most configurations.
  • master.cf: contains transport related settings.
  • aliases: aliases for system accounts.
  • helo_access.pcre: PCRE regular expressions of HELO check rules.
  • ldap/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. LDAP backends only.
  • mysql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
  • pgsql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. PostgreSQL backend only.

Log files

  • on RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, it's /var/log/maillog.
  • on Debian, Ubuntu, it's /var/log/mail.log.

Dovecot

  • on Linux and OpenBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /etc/dovecot/.
  • on FreeBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/dovecot/.

Config files

Main config file is dovecot.conf. It contains most configurations.

Additional config files:

  • dovecot-ldap.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. LDAP backends only.
  • dovecot-mysql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
  • dovecot-pgsql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. PostgreSQL backend only.
  • dovecot-used-quota.conf: used to store and query real-time per-user mailbox quota.
  • dovecot-share-folder.conf: used to store settings of shared IMAP mailboxes.
  • dovecot-master-users-password or dovecot-master-users: used to store Dovecot master user accounts.

Log files

  • /var/log/dovecot.log: main log file.
  • /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log: sieve related log. NOTE: on old iRedMail releases, it's /var/log/sieve.log.
  • /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log: LMTP related log.

OpenLDAP

Main config file:

  • on RHEL/CentOS: it's /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
  • on Debian/Ubuntu: it's /etc/ldap/slapd.conf.
  • on FreeBSD: it's /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
  • on OpenBSD: it's /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.

Schema files are stored under schema/ directory (same directory as slapd.conf).

OpenLDAP is configured to log to /var/log/openldap.log by default, if it's empty, please check normal syslog log file /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog instead.

Amavisd

Main config files

  • on RHEL/CentOS: it's /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf.

  • on Debian/Ubuntu: it's /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user.

    Debian/Ubuntu have some additional config files under /etc/amavis/conf.d/, but you can always override them in /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user. When we mention amavisd.conf in other documents, it always means 50-user on Debian/Ubuntu.

  • on FreeBSD: it's /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf.

  • on OpenBSD: it's /etc/amavisd.conf.

Log files

Amavisd is configured to log to Postfix log file by iRedMail.

Fail2ban

  • Main config file is /etc/fail2ban/jail.local. All custom settings should be placed in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local, and don't touch jail.conf, so that upgrading Fail2ban binary package won't override your custom settings.

  • All filter rules are defined in files under /etc/fail2ban/filters.d/.

  • Actions are defined in files under /etc/fail2ban/actions.d/.

FreeBSD system is /usr/local/etc/fail2ban/.

Roundcube webmail

Roundcube webmail is installed under below directory by default:

  • RHEL/CentOS: /var/www/roundcubemail. It's a symbol link to /var/www/roundcubemail-x.y.z.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: /usr/share/apache2/roundcubemail. It's a symbol link of /usr/share/apache2/roundcubemail-x.y.z/.
  • FreeBSD: /usr/local/www/roundcube.
  • OpenBSD: /var/www/roundcubemail. It's a symbol link to /var/www/roundcubemail-x.y.z/.

Config files:

  • Main config file is config/config.inc.php under Roundcube webmail directory.

    If you're running old Roundcube webmail (0.9.x and earlier releases), it has two separate config files: config/db.inc.php and config/main.inc.php.

  • Config files of plugins are placed under plugin directory. for example, config file of password plugin is plugins/password/config.inc.php.

iRedAPD

Main config file is /opt/iredapd/settings.py on all Linux/BSD distributions.

iRedAdmin

Main config file:

  • on RHEL/CentOS, it's /var/www/iredadmin/settings.py.
  • on Debian/Ubuntu, it's /usr/share/apache2/iredadmin/settings.py.
  • on FreeBSD, it's /usr/local/www/iredadmin/settings.py.
  • on OpenBSD, it's /var/www/iredadmin/settings.py.

iRedAdmin is a web application, when debug mode is turned on, it will log error message to Apache/Nginx ssl error log file.

Note: If you modified any iRedAdmin files (not just config file), please restart Apache or uwsgi service (if you're running Nginx) to reload modified files.