Bulk Email Server Guide: Basic control panel configurations

Now that we have a control panel installed we can do all (well most) of configuration in a user-friendly user interface you can access in your browser.

You already have all the necessary login information (did you save it?) from the previous step. So copy/paste the URL you got and log in. It looks something like this

NO-SSL
http://MAIN_SERVER_IPv4:2030

SSL
https://MAIN_SERVER_IPv4:2031

Where "MAIN_SERVER_IPv4" is obviously the IPv4 of your main server so be sure to change it or you will get an error (doh!). I suggest you use SSL. You will get a warning since it's self-signed.

Log in with the user root and password you use to log in over SSH. You will see something like this.

The first thing you want to do is set your email address to get rid of the annoying message that shows after login. You can do this in "CWP Settings > Edit Settings" where all you have to do is enter your/some email and click "Save changes".

Change Date & Time

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Important!

Remember the timezone you set as you will need it later!

Simple PHP.ini Editor

Now go to "PHP Settings > PHP Simple Editor" and change everything as you see in the picture below. Of course, do not set the same timezone as I have. Set it to what you used in the step before.

Important!

You have to click "Save" next to each field to save the changes.

Make sure you uncomment the "date.timezone" option by removing ";" in the front.

Change SSH Port

To make your server safe from script-kiddies I suggest you change the SSH port. Go to "Services Config > SSH Configuration" and search for "Port 22". If needed uncomment it by removing ";" and change it to a number between 10000-60000.

Click "Save changes" at the bottom and go back to the main page of the control panel dashboard and Restart SSH by clicking on "Restart" next to it.

This is all the basic configuration that had to be done. Of course, there is more to do like add user accounts, create system emails, enable firewall and backups, ... but we'll get to that in the next step.

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