[K12OSN] Free Software ISP-style web hosting app?
Brian Chase
networkr0 at cfl.rr.com
Fri May 7 02:17:19 UTC 2004
http://www.webmin.com/index6.html
Brian Chase wrote:
> Webmin has a sibling package called Usermin, and can be installed from
> within the Webmin configuration modules. Usermin allows the users to
> get to their data alone without having elevated priveledges. It's
> like portal for users on a linux system.
>
> Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> The Business Dept. in my district has an idea to teach kids how to
>> build Web sites, complete with cgi-bin and MySQL, and they wish to
>> present the students with an "real-live ISP like" Web server to do
>> this on. To my surprise and delight, they have decided to use
>> GNU/Linux for this! They have already purchased RHEL for this
>> purpose and have asked me to install it.
>>
>> There's an app out there called cPanel that apparently ISPs use to
>> make it very easy for customers to administer their MySQL databases,
>> install their cgi scripts, do email, etc. Our business dept. is
>> looking for an app like that, and the reason is that they want the
>> students to be able to make Web sites, again, as if they were doing
>> it on a "real" Web hosting system, and also the administrator of this
>> system will be a business teacher (read: not me).
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a web hosting "control panel" that runs in a GUI
>> and is Free Software? I had suggested Webmin to the guy running this
>> pilot, and he's aware of it, but Webmin is for sysadmins. This
>> cPanel app also handles the "customers" (students, in this case). So
>> why not just go with cPanel? It's because cPanel requires a boatload
>> of TCP and UDP ports to be opened wide from the outside through the
>> district firewall (cPanel, Inc. says it's for license compliance
>> verification), and the firewall administrator is, rightly, not about
>> to allow that to happen.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --TP
>>
>>
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