Andy-H Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Just wondering if anyone knew of any reading material regarding hosting account creation (shared space/subdomain creation etc) like a cpanel but without using any API's, I want to create one from scratch, just curious as to weather I can do it, and maybe make it open source if it turns out any good. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehippy Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Account creation is pretty simple in any unix environment. It'll be all the configuring of services to read per-user configs that will eat up your time as most services while they support it tend not to enable or have it compiled in by default. Also you'll need to create some management scripts to handle restarts/rehashing of service configs, throttling number of reashes/restarts. And many more things I can think of, its really just a huge exercise of unix administration and scripting. Some open-source panels for reference: Webmin ISPConfig VHCS GNUPanel There is also ticketing and billing to flush out aswell. There are a couple good FOSS ticketing solutions but the only good billing solutions are commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Most things you need to know to do this manually would be covered in the Linux Rute guide (http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz) from there, it's just a matter of scripting the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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