[GLLUG] web hosting control

[Mike Szumlinski]

Not sure if it is still alive or even does what you are looking for 
particularly, but I used webmin back in the day to do some of this 
stuff.

-Mike

On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Mike Rambo wrote:

> Lansing Schools is looking for something to ease management of the 
> district web server. What is desired is to be able to hand off some 
> level of web site configuration to staff at some of the local schools 
> (ie. the netadmin at sexton be able to administrate all web sites that 
> are derivatives of programs at sexton etc.) without district admins 
> needing to make every change that has to be made.
>
> We have found a commercial product called cpanel (cpanel.net) that 
> appears to do this but I have reservations because it is closed. It 
> works with apache, php, mysql etc but does so in such a way that it 
> obscures what is happening behind the curtains and also appears to 
> heavily modify many aspects of the server (to the point that they 
> recommned to wipe and rebuild the server to uninstall).
>
> Does anyone know of any open solutions that use standard off the shelf 
> apache (and other) packages to accomplish this? Freshmeat supplied a 
> few possibles (web-cp, vhost, Domain Technologie Control, host4net) 
> some of which are more complete than others but I wondered what folks 
> on the list might recommend.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -- 
> Mike Rambo
> mrambo at lsd.k12.mi.us
>
> Windows will always suck until it is installed on vacuum cleaners!
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