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Wednesday 1 May 2013

Virtualmin: Open-source cpanel alternative

Few days back, I installed EHCP and gave it a try. Though it has the feature which a little literate hosting provider would neeed. However, its interface and feature organisation wasn't appealing. It really need work here . Beacause, after installing when i log into it, it looked totally  perplexed me.  However, it's features were suffice to fill  this gap.
Being said that i would also like to say Big Thank to ehcp developers for coming this far and giving a product that does what it made for.

Next, after googling little more I come across one more open-source cpanel alternative: Virtualmin.
It's based on webmin, So, it may look same for webmin users, but here they have provided support as well. That comes with virutalmin-pro version. Pro version has cool new features like support for Rails hosting, which i really miss in Virutalmin-GPL.

I've installed Virutalmin-GPL and quite happy with that. I needed to provided PHP-hosting and it works like a charm with good , not confusing and well organised interface.

Here are the steps, i follow, or rather i should write Virtualmin-GPL followed to get installed on my system.
  • Download virtualmin install script from this url: http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh

             $cd /home
             $curl http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
             $ sudo . ./install.sh

Follow its simple steps. It will download and configure, all modules needed to manage a typical web host.

When installed, open the url : http://ip.address:10000

Congrats, you have virutalmin panel installed on your server.

Happy Hosting.!!  :)

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