Webmin

Although I somewhat agree with the webmin sentiment, after having tried to do simple maintenance on a cobalt for someone, it seems a real dog for anything outside the normal scope of what they want you to do. We needed to edit an httpd.conf file, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it. Ditto for restarting Apache. Add a MIME type? No dice. Webmin is not the slickest interface, but seems to offer a lot of flexibility. Rather than rewriting something, perhaps you could vounteer to design a better interface for existing webmin stuff. A PHP-based version of webmin would be nice, but it's already a rather developed project, and after considering how to do it myself, I realized there's a whole hell of a lot of configurations and systems to have to consider beyond my few linux distros. John Huggins wrote: > You mention a large desire for a good web based administrator. I wonder if > there is a version of a web based system administrator available that works > like Cobalt, but can be installed on any hosting setup. Have you folks > heard of such a thing? I am aware of Webmin, but am not too impressed with > it yet. > > I have toyed with the idea of writing my own. Jamie, what items do you feel > must be controllable in a web hosting account administration panel? Yes, we > all know the basics, like email, dns, etc. but a bulleted list would be a > good start at organizing a development effort. > > John