Sympl Packages

Sympl is comprised of a number of packages, these are:

sympl-core

This is the core package for Sympl, and handles the Message Of The Day, as well as the libraries and core utilities.

sympl-web

Installs and configures the Apache web server.

sympl-ftp

Installs and configures Pure-FTPd which provides FTP access for domains.

sympl-mail

Installs and configures Exim and Dovecot, which transfer email and handle mailboxes respectively.

sympl-webmail

Installs and configures Roundcube, which provides a web interface for local email accounts.

sympl-mysql

Installs and configures the MariaDB database (which is a drop-in replacement for MySQL).

sympl-phpmyadmin

Installs and configures phpMyAdmin, a web interface for MariaDB.

sympl-dns

Generates DNS zone files in 'TinyDNS' format. Sympl versions 9.1 and 10.1 will include automatic DNS uploading via OctoDNS.

sympl-monit

A system monitor which ensures the installed services are up and running, and restarts them if they fail.

sympl-cron

Handles per-domain cron jobs.

sympl-firewall

Manages the iptables firewall for the server, based on the contents of /etc/sympl/firewall.

sympl-backup

Installs and configures backup2l, an easy to use backup utility.

sympl-updater

Installs and configures unattended-upgrades which automatically installs security updates and updates to Sympl.

libapache2-mod-vhost-sympl

An Apache module which is used by the Mass Hosting configuration to redirect traffic to the relevant site without individual apache configurations.

Other Packages

Other than the dependencies, a number of other suggested packages are also instaled by Sympl by default, such as Vim and htop.