[cobalt-users] Raq2 Bypassing the GUI

[Hostmaster <hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The GUI is nifty but it's also a major limiting factor of the Cobalt Server.
With this in mind, I'd like to start up a thread on figureing out how to
bypass the GUI fully in order to host more than 250 sites.

Let's take it apart. We need three things as I see it (and not always all
three).

1. Web Hosting
2. Adding Users/FTP access
3. Email (and or aliases)

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1. Web Hosting
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In Apache, here's all you "should" need to add to the httpd.conf file:

# point www.somesite.com to subdirectory somesite
<VirtualHost www.somesite.com somesite.com>
ServerName www.somesite.com
ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
DocumentRoot /home/sites/home/users/somesite
</VirtualHost>

This is the standard way in Apache. You can also add other things like:
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
Alias /icons/ /where ever these are/

Then restart apache: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.init restart

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2. Adding Users/FTP access
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There's a note about this with an adduser script at:
http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=adduser&qid=602&language=1

Seems a little complex for what we're trying to do. Thoughts?

Here's some info for the RAQ3 regarding this:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-June/013505.html

I wonder if these could be modified for the RAQ2?

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3. Email (and or aliases)
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A user account as from above could be used as the email account correct? If
you wanted it aliased to another email account (off site or on) you would
simply add a line like the following to the bottom of the virtusertable --
correct as well?

scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx

You'd also have to add the domain to etc/sendmail.cw such as
mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com


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# Thoughts #
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What am I missing here? Will this work or won't it? I know #1 works but 2
and 3 have not been tested.

Scott
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Scott Crumpton, Publisher                   Moriah Mountain Publishing
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