Linux System Administration

Setting Up a Server and Users with ISPConfig

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Setting Up a Server and Users with ISPConfig

Setting up a web site is one of the first moves toward having a fully functional Inter-

net server. This section will walk you through all the necessary steps.

If you’re wondering why we don’t just ask you to navigate over to the

ISPConfig web site and read the manuals, consider the following: ISP-

Config’s developers wrote their users’ documentation for ISPs hosting

customer web sites. If that’s your intended use, we recommend read-

ing the manuals at http://ispconfig.org. Otherwise, we will assume you

plan on using your server with a single system administrator who man-

ages her own secure web sites, mail, and FTP services.

ISPConfig requires you to set up a client who will own one or more Internet

domains. In our example, we will set up a single client (one of the authors of this

book) who will own four domains:

• centralsoft.org

• linuxnewswire.org

• opensourcetoday.org

• tadelstein.com

When you look at the directory contents in /var/www, you will see how ISPConfig

sets up domains:

$ ls -a

apache2-default sharedip web2 web4 webalizer www.opensourcetoday.org

localhost web1 web3 www.centralsoft.org www.linuxnewswire.org

www.tadelstein.com

Compare this directory listing with the list of web sites in Figure 4-1. Each web site

contains a directory. The www directories whose names show the domains (such as

www.opensourcetoday.org ...