I'm a true newbie.
Looking for a "database" or "application" or "script" (see, I don't even know the correct lingo...) that I can upload to my site and manage password protection, detailed statistics, mail, etc.
The ideal gadget should have a logical interface, be accessed with a browser and no scripting should be required (configuration from the panel).
Is there any such item available?
Which one is OK?
Oh, my webhost have Intel Linux and supports about all script languages available.

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I think part of your problem might be that you don't have access to install certain things on the server. I'm not entirely sure, but you could probably accomplish most of the things you want, though maybe not exactly in a one-shot deal.

I'm trying to think if you could create a folder for all of this (say admin2) with a HTML page that links to subfolders within this folder with all of the scripts you are asking for.

/admin2/index.html (links to all the below)
/admin2/passprotect (someone has suggested http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/ before)
/admin2/stats (not sure what to suggest)
/admin2/email (again, not sure what to suggest)

Check hotscripts.com for various scripts that might do the trick.

First; maybe I'm not clear. I'm not running my own server. I rent diskspace at a webhost.
Second; There must be millions of people like me out there, with intermediate knowledge about websites, that would easily fork out $50-100 for an application of the kind I'm asking for; something that will create password prqtected files/folders, take care of the mail, maybe a chat and a message board, etc. Easily configured and managed.
Who ever will be the first do develop such gadget will make TONS of money.

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The problem with something like this is that not all servers are the same. Password protection might be simple enough if Apache is assumed (as this would work the same on any Apache platform), but mail configuration depends on many things. Are you using Sendmail or Qmail? Is the server set up for virtual domains, and if so, how is mail handled internally? There are many ways this is done, none of them really standard...

These questions are rhetorical, mostly to demonstrate why such a project would be very difficult. To make things worse, some web servers run scripts as the webserver user, and thus wouldn't (shouldn't) have permission to write to your mail control files etc. Some mail subsystems are not under your ownership even, so even with suEXEC you'd not be able to modify these settings.

All around, providing a control panel for such features should be the job of the provider; they're the only ones who can truly write (or customize) a control panel to work with their particular configuration. User-installed systems would have to assume (or know) far too much, and may still not be possible without special configuration on the host's part.

Hope this helps.