<html><head><base href="x-msg://49/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Another thing you might consider :<div>I might be wrong because I never investigated properly as I never needed it, but as much as I prefer NGINX over Apache, depending on the case maybe you will be better with Apache.</div><div>The thing is that there is not really the concept of .htaccess files.</div><div>You have to do these things in NGINX config file (which are simpler by the way).</div><div>And you have to restart the server after a modification.</div><div>That could be limiting as not all panels handle NGINX (not sure I don't use panels and do everything in command line).</div><div>And it does not allow you to delegate some config to the owner of an app (at least the apache way).</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe you don't care but just wanted to mention.</div><div>And again I might be wrong as I never needed it desperately.</div><div><br></div><div>Mig</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 21 May 2012, at 18:52, Viktor Tron wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Thanks guys, I am already using linode as my preferred VPS. Linode admin console is more like managing your VPS/account.</div><div>But the point is to give the client a UI to administer things. A UI better than calling me to change stuff :) </div><div><br></div><div>OK so let's be specific.</div><div>Sure installing a blog and a forum probably easy.</div><div>What tools if any allow:</div><div><ul><li>manage emails, maybe mailing lists</li><li>manage subdomains, do GUIs exist for nginx/apache?</li><li>detailed web access analytics GUI </li><li>manage ftp accounts</li><li>view db directly (like phpMyAdmin)</li></ul></div><div>thanks a million</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:32:11 +0100, Chris Adams <<a href="mailto:mail@chrisadams.me.uk">mail@chrisadams.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8ex; margin-left: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><div>I'd second James on the Linode recommendation.</div><div><br></div><div>You'll get more server your money than if you go with AWS.</div><div><br></div><div>C</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Chris Adams</div><div>mobile: 07974 368 229</div><div>twitter: @mrchrisadams</div><div>www:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://chrisadams.me.uk">chrisadams.me.uk</a></div><div><br></div></div><p style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:29, Ed James (Alt) wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><span><div><div><div>Hey,</div><div><br></div><div>It sounds like you need full control of your server, so you're probably better off going with a provider like Amazon or Linode. You'll get a bare-bones server install and the rest is up to you, so if you're not afraid of the sys-admin side of things this is what I'd suggest.</div><div><br></div><div>The Linode admin console is ok, but their tech support and prices are excellent.</div><div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Ed James</div><div>Sent with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig">Sparrow</a></div><div><br></div></div><p style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:25, Viktor Tron wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><div><span><div><div><div>Hi lruggers, </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for this offish email, but so many clever web people here I wanna hear you.</div><div><br></div><div>I developed a rails app. The client also wants to do a lot of management on the server on the same domain, ideally including:</div><ul><li>blog (wordpress) </li><li>forum (ideally seeded with a phpforum export, but not crucial)</li><li>manage emails, maybe mailing lists</li><li>manage subdomains</li><li>detailed anaylytics</li><li>ftp accounts, manage access</li></ul><div>Since for background jobs I almost defo need root access we opted for a host that offered cpanel-based managed server with root access.</div><div>Now apart from the fact that cpanel feels like a thing of the past and looks like a monster if you look on the server, I also failed to hack apache config to handle my rails app (running on passenger)</div><div>(I simply wanted 2 vhost entries, non-ssl one redirecting to the the other on ssl, already something impossible to do)</div><div><br></div><div>The above seems like a pretty reasonable list of things to want. Now my question to you. How is this best done?</div><div>I do not mind to install wordpress myself and get my hands dirty if you suggest good solutions to the other tasks?</div><div>Are heroku and suchlike rails-friendly hosts offering you these admin UIs and I am just better off trying to get my rails app working without insisting on root shell?</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate all comments and pointers</div><div><br></div><div>Vik<br><br></div></div><div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></blockquote><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>