Re: Public Web server Help

[mike () genxweb net]

Check out virtualmin at virtualmin.com it is a module for the webmin software
and runs great on red hat. It will also do everything you listed in the email
below.

Quoting Alexander Lukyanenko <sashman () ua fm>:

> Hello Shawn,
>
> Friday, March 26, 2004, 8:34:43 PM, you wrote:
>
> SJ>    I have a question for the Linux/UNIX guru's out there. Currently I
> SJ> host a few people (projects I helped out with at one time or another) on
> SJ> my servers at home. They get Email, Web, FTP, etc. The hosting was done
> SJ> on one Win 2K box. In a effort to secure myself better I'm migrating
> SJ> them to a Red Hat Linux 8 server, for Web/FTP and MySQL, Email and
> SJ> others to be done latter, on different servers.
>
> SJ> My plan is to setup a htdocs or public_html directory in their home
> SJ> folder, under that will be each domain that the server hosts for them,
> SJ> (some of them have multiple domains). Using FTP I can easily lock them
> SJ> in their home directories but I also want to allow SSH access to the
> SJ> server so they can get work done easier.
>
> SJ> Does anyone know of any of have any document on how to lock users in
> SJ> their home directories using SSH? In the UNIX/Telnet world there was a
> SJ> way, I just don't know if it migrated to the Linux world.
>
> Why? They won't be able to access other user's directories nor do any
> harm to a properly configured system.
>
> SJ> Does anyone know of any or have any documents on how to properly setup
> SJ> Apache (HTTPD) for this environment. I've setup normal websites using
> SJ> Apache, Virtual Hosts, Aliases, etc but this seams to be a different
> SJ> beast altogether. 
> For the simplest approach in form of http://foo.bar/~username, look at
> Apache module called mod_userdir.
>
> SJ> Does anyone know of any or have any documents on how to setup MySQL for
> SJ> this environment? My first theory was to setup a single DB, then create
> SJ> databases on demand, but is there a way to let each user setup their own
> SJ> 'instance' in their home directory? 
> In commercial shared hosting environment, every user's database is
> named username_dbname to prevent all kinds of namespace collisions,
> so the DBs are separated, and only the user is given access to it.
>
> SJ> Anyone dealt with this situation, any help or nudges/kicks in the right
> SJ> direction is appreciated. Thanks!
> I've used a commercial package for web-based shared server management
> for Linux/FreeBSD called cPanel WHM http://www.cpanel.net/ It seems to
> be overpriced, but I have no doubts in the existence of cheaper and/or
> open-source management products.
>
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