PowerDNS-Admin

A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features.

Features:

• Multiple domain management
• Domain template
• User management
• User access management based on domain
• User activity logging
• Local DB / LDAP / Active Directory user authentication
• Support Two-factor authentication (TOTP)
• Dashboard and pdns service statistics
• DynDNS 2 protocol support
• Edit IPv6 PTRs using IPv6 addresses directly (no more editing of literal addresses!)

Setup

PowerDNS Version Support:

PowerDNS-Admin supports PowerDNS autoritative server versions 3.4.2 and higher.

pdns Service

I assume that you have already installed pdns service. Make sure that your pdns.conf config file has these contents

PowerDNS 4.0.0 and later

api=yes
api-key=your-powerdns-api-key
webserver=yes

PowerDNS before 4.0.0

experimental-json-interface=yes
experimental-api-key=your-powerdns-api-key
webserver=yes

This will enable API access in pdns service so PowerDNS-Admin can intergrate with it.

Create Database

We will create a database which used by this web application. Please note that this database is difference from pdns database itself.

PowerDNS-Admin supports MySQL server, Maria DB, PostgresQL and SQL Lite.

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE powerdnsadmin;

MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON powerdnsadmin.* TO powerdnsadmin@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password';

Running PowerDNS-Admin

There are several ways to run PowerDNS-Admin. Following is a simple way to start PowerDNS-Admin with docker in development environment.

Firstly, let's edit configs/developments.py configuration file.

Secondly, build the docker image of PowerDNS-Admin

$docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml build

Finally, start it

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

You can now access PowerDNS-Admin at url http://localhost:9191

NOTE: For other methods to run PowerDNS-Admin, please take look at WIKI pages.

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