We are setting up a small file server for our portal, whose responsibility is to only deliver files to users.

We only need following features.

1. Apache max with 5 websites
2. FTP for 5 websites and one master FTP for entire disk
3. MySQL with phpMyAdmin
4. PHP with advanced image modification library
5. AWStats or any good traffic and load analyzer
6. Firewall to ban ips

I saw lots of control panels, problem is they install too many things on server which are not required like mailing and many additional tools which we can not even disable to take maximum advantage of cpu and memory.

Configuring these softwares manually is not difficult, but as we will be growing, to do horizontal scaling we will be adding more servers in our farm and some visual configuration will be helpful.

WebMin is good but for some reason, it does not get installed, and it does not provide facility of virtual hosts under apache.

WebMin is installed but it never starts, it is displayed under processes but on netstat -o -a command does not show any listener on port 10000 as specified by webmin.

We have our portal on Win2K3 which has all business logic and files are uploaded on Win2K3 server, W2K3 will connect mysql on linux and put files there in background and to view the files, the urls will be targeted to linux server which we want to setup with this small CP.

Any help is appriciated.

Thank you

Try webmin, or ispconfig.
Good luck.

WebMin is good but for some reason, it does not get installed, and it does not provide facility of virtual hosts under apache.

You can install Webmin on pretty much any Linux distribution. We provide packages for RPM-based systems, deb-based systems, as well as tarballs for the odd systems that don't use RPM or deb packages.

As for virtual hosts, Webmin's Apache module does support virtual hosts...but you probably also want Virtualmin. It's designed for managing virtual hosts in a web hosting environment. Webmin is a general purpose system administration tool.

Virtualmin can be configured very minimally, to just setup websites (and optionally DNS) for you and leave all of the other features undone. If you really don't want a full-featured Virtualmin system (with mail, databases, etc.) just install the Webmin package and then download the Virtualmin and Virtualmin Framed Theme packages and install them. Login and disable all of the non-web services in the "Features and Plugins" page, and then run the configuration check. It ought to work just fine, if you've got Apache configured reasonably. (If you need suexec, you'll want to grab our Apache packages, as well, from Virtualmin.com). If you don't need any of the automatically installable applications and some other niceties, the Open Source Virtualmin GPL should work fine for you.

If you have any problems feel free to ask question in the Virtualmin.com forums. We support both GPL and commercial versions there equally.

Regards,
Joe

ISPConfig is too heavy, it told me to install hell lot of software and which I feel its just going to eat memory and cpu.

I want webmin but webmin doesnt get installed, neither by compiling or using rpm packages. It is installed but it never runs, starting webmin service tells that service is running but no listener on port 10000. After 10th attempt i stopped.

Did you get any error at the time of installing webmin? Check the processes running in the server using the command ps aux and kill if there is any webmin process and restart it again.

Check webmin is listening or not using the command

netstat -lpn

Tried everything, restart webmin, reinstall webmin, cant see anything in any log files in webmin folders. I noticed couple of more problems searched in google reports that majority of people have problem with webmin on FC8, I know it worked great from FC4 to FC7 i had used.

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Hi, Sorry the CP is not famous and also CP is very sensitive, we had bad experience using Hosting Controller, they once hacked into system and changed all webpages of all websites. Trust is more important factor then price. We can afford cPanel and we are using it on other servers as well. I am just searching for an alternative of webmin as it is not installing. Open source is not about free cost wise, but we are certainly not interested in being hostage of any other company.

Hi, Sorry the CP is not famous and also CP is very sensitive, we had bad experience using Hosting Controller, they once hacked into system and changed all webpages of all websites. Trust is more important factor then price. We can afford cPanel and we are using it on other servers as well. I am just searching for an alternative of webmin as it is not installing. Open source is not about free cost wise, but we are certainly not interested in being hostage of any other company.

What problems are you having with installing webmin? Was there any other errors during installation besides not being able to listen on port 10000?

What problems are you having with installing webmin? Was there any other errors during installation besides not being able to listen on port 10000?

No, no installation problems at all, a fresh Red Hat FC8, just got it from superb. No logs of any kind.

After installation if run, service webmin start, it starts but no one listens on port 10000 and i left firewall open for 10000 too. I can see webmin running in service status.

Apache port 80 runs perfectly and i made copy of same port 80 line on iptables for port 10000. No results !!

LXadmin is better.
This is my idea.

Hi, Sorry the CP is not famous and also CP is very sensitive, we had bad experience using Hosting Controller, they once hacked into system and changed all webpages of all websites. Trust is more important factor then price. We can afford cPanel and we are using it on other servers as well. I am just searching for an alternative of webmin as it is not installing. Open source is not about free cost wise, but we are certainly not interested in being hostage of any other company.

Just because "the cp is not famous" does not make it any more prone to being hacked than any other control panel. Actually, the majority of servers that are compromised are using cPanel (just my observations) because of an insecure server, not because of cPanel - and cPanel is one of the widely used panels, if not the most widely used.

Just try out LXAdmin (it's free for 40 domains), we have been using it for almost 2 years now with almost close to the default install with absolutely no issues what so ever. It is how secure the server is really, not much to do with the control panel.