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

[Brian Chase]

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Brian Chase wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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