Hello,

This might looks like an advertisement, but I can assure you that it is not.

As many knows, I have been working on a web hosting control panel for a few months. I would like some comments on its current look / feel, features, what I'm missing, etc.

I say that I don't consider this as an advertisement because the software will be free, (Open Source // GNU GPL), and I am merely releasing it to the public for everyone else to profit from it instead of having to pay a fortune for any GUI out there (cobalt... plesk... sphera... cpanel... dell...)

Please check http://webcp.can-host.com for the features & the demos.

NOTE
This control panel IS NOT ready for production use yet. We use it in a production environment, but I am the developper so I can easily patch any bug that crop up, and it let me see how well it does for real tasks.

Thanks!!

Make it work in FreeBSD and I'll love it!! ;) The link doesn't work for me.

:cartman: May I suggest you port it to Slackware? I know Slackware is probably the least spread version of Linux, but I would really like to be able to have a controlpanel working with Slackware.


Nordic

Why would he spend the time porting it to a distro no one uses??

Features look good felix, one thing most people are going to want is a easy to install cp most companys who design cp seem to put the ease of install last!

You can knock out QMail management with QmailAdmin from inter7.com. Very nice and GPL with templates

Please please please loose the dollar signs and currency!

Otherwise it will be useless for the rest of the world. You must make the TAX variable also...

I hope everything is template based so it can be translated to other languages and styles (the output I mean).

I checked the demo URL http://hydrogen.can-host.com/webcp but it doesn't work. I got 404 error

is it just me ?

Thomas

It is just you, works fine for me :)

light update:

Currently, since I am only at version 0.2.1, there are no install scripts... but that is somethign I will work on once everything else is stable.

Yes, I know I put it last, but since I am doing this (alone so far) for my own company first, then every other companies, I feel this is the best way to do it.

I planned Qmail support, I will check that GPL admin script and may take some out of it... But it is possible that it'll be simplier to do it all over again :)

All the text in the CP can be changed (including $$), but it is not based on a template, so you have to keep my design. You can change the colors on the design. It is not based on templates because I wanted some features in that were not compatible with it.

However, nobody said that it cannot be done by me or someone else and use the web.cp backend :) (and here is the power of open source + gpl...)

We plan ports on about any kind of unix and linux systems, so it will work with FreeBSD or OpenBSD (my favorite), slackware, debian, etc... as long as they have a fairly standard installation... and even then, it is highly configurable for the paths to programs, etc.

We had interest from other developpers who wants to add additional layers of control panel, make some different user friendly, etc... so I suppose that in 1 year we should have a product offering hundreds of capabilities :D

Keep the ideas flowing in!

Why wouldn't you throw your efforts into the open source, free control panel project at

http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

instead of starting a new open source control panel project?

-t

because web-cp is a control panel for the end users etc. And webmin is for the server administrator.

Further more web-cp is developped in PHP which is a more accesible language for outstanders then CGI/Perl.

Originally posted by Starhost
because web-cp is a control panel for the end users etc. And webmin is for the server administrator.

Further more web-cp is developped in PHP which is a more accesible language for outstanders then CGI/Perl.

Plus web.cp supports reseller features unique to web hosting... webmin only manage the services.

All i have to say.. FreeBSD FreeBSD FreeBSD :D

um... this thread is old, but I thought I should post here.
Did Felix forgett about webcp? it has been like 4 months without any updates.... :(
And I wish it worked on FreeBSD though,,, it is ok, I will just install RedHat. Any way, curent version is o.3 is this the last? hope not! Becuase alot of people just leave there open source project and never come back to realease new versions. :(

Nope, he is still working on it.

I installed it on my office network server and it's extremely easy to setup, although not too user-friendly yet.