webserver managing

[m00s3]

i was wondering if there were any free software packages (similar to CPANEL) which would allow me to administrate my slackware machine as webserver and add accounts (such as ftp), limit disk space usage, mysql etc, externally.
hope someone can help

m00s3

[mdwatts]

Webmin ?? www.webmin.com

Of course that does depend on the distro/version you are using as some may already include some of those tools.

[m00s3]

thanks MdWatts, like usual you seem to know the answer to my problems :D
i shall see if i can get that running ;)

[mdwatts]

Of course you would need to have mysql, ftp, quotas etc. installed in order to use Webmin to configure.

I always prefer rebuilding the Webmin source rpm and then installing.

rpm --rebuild webmin....src.rpm

or Redhat has

rpmbuild --rebuild webmin....src.rpm

Give Webmin as try as it's a great all-in-one system configuration/administration tool.

[m00s3]

yeah ive been using it this afternoon and it sure is nifty!
although i couldnt for the life of me work out how to add users to ftp server :(

whilst that is usefull, im still looking for something which can allow me to specify a directory (/home/hosted) and then have an option to generate a new account for example bob
so an ftp account would be created with username bob
a mysql db would be made with username bob
and the root for the hosting would be /home/hosted/bob
its quite tedious adding lots of users :S

i hope someone can suggest a good sollution:)

many thanks

m00s3

[mdwatts]

If you cannot find any options in Webmin to to that for ftp, have a search at http://freshmeat.net for ?? 'ftp user admin'.

[m00s3]

allright, cheers:)

[m00s3]

im going to try and setup http://chaogic.com/vhost
looks usefull

[m00s3]

after spending serveral hours trying to get that vhosts to work, i have given up.

i would really appreciate if someone could recomend some alternatives which do similar things

many thanks

m00s3