[K12OSN] Free Software ISP-style web hosting app?

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Thanks to all, and I will give this (and Les's suggestion of Virtualmin) 
a try. 

--TP

Brian Chase wrote:

> http://www.webmin.com/index6.html
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> Brian Chase wrote:
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>> 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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