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<body><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></body></html>