Remote admin of www-domains...

Hi,
I'm using Apache as webserver to serve my www-domain. Everything works
great. Now, my brother asked me to host his domain as well. Fine, it is just
to use virtual hosts - easy. That works too. However, a need has arised for
my brother to administer his www-domain remotely. He does not want to run
plain ssh with scp, instead he wants to use a nice webbased easy-to-use gui.
Is there such a tool for Apache?

Thanks,
Sam

On 2004-11-15, Sam Smith <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is there such a tool for Apache?

Yes, but all of them require (more or less) to be run as root. So I
suggest you to tell your brother to fsck off or to learn how to use
the console.

Davide

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"Davide Bianchi" wrote:
> Yes, but all of them require (more or less) to be run as root.
Hmmm, that is not acceptable, of course.


> So I suggest you to tell your brother to fsck off
What a useful advice...


> or to learn how to use the console.
Sigh.


I just found this, which seems to fit my need (and my
brothers) perfectly!
"How can I create a Webmin user who can only
configure one Apache virtual server or DNS domain?

In the Webmin Servers module, create a new user and
give him access to only the Apache Webserver module.
After saving, click on Apache Webserver next to the
user's name in the list of Webmin users and use the
form that appears to deny him access to everything
except one selected virtual server.

Many other modules can also be configured in a similar
way to restrict the access of a user to only certain
DNS domains, Unix users or mail aliases. "

Sam

On 2004-11-15, Sam Smith <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using Apache as webserver to serve my www-domain. Everything works
> great. Now, my brother asked me to host his domain as well. Fine, it is just
> to use virtual hosts - easy. That works too. However, a need has arised for
> my brother to administer his www-domain remotely. He does not want to run
> plain ssh with scp, instead he wants to use a nice webbased easy-to-use gui.
> Is there such a tool for Apache?

So, you started the domain for him.

Why does he need admin rights, what does he want to do?

User authentification?
Rewrite engine?
IP-based directory access?
....?

For practically all options you can easily just set a "AllowOverride all"
and tell him to learn how to use .htaccess files.

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