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Chapter 4: An Initial Internet-Ready Environment
ISPConfig sets up two directories containing the files and subdirectories that make
up the application panel: /root/ispconfig and /home/admispconfig. You can uninstall
ISPConfig and go back to a standard text-based server by running /root/ispconfig/
uninstall; some readers may choose to do that after working for a while with this
book.
Getting Started
Like many Linux and Unix packages, ISPConfig is provided as a set of files com-
bined with the tar utility, the result of which is often called a tarball. When you click
on the Download link at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ispconfig, it will lead you to
one of the SourceForge site’s mirrors. A typical site containing ISPConfig is http://
superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ispconfig/ISPConfig-2.2.6.tar.gz.
You can just click the Download link to download the file, but because the file is
quite large, you may find it useful to copy the URL and paste it into a wget com-
mand in your terminal window. The advantage of using wget is that you can recover
easily if something disrupts your download. If you issue the command with the -c
option, you can resume the download rather than starting again from scratch: if the
download gets aborted, simply rerun the wget command as before and it will resume
where it left off.
In this chapter we’ll assume you start in a directory called /root on your system. ...