RE: [webmin-l] Template help for Virtualmin and general info

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 02:38, Chris M. wrote:
> 1. I wondered if that solution would work. Glad to know that it would! The
> other question though is that if I do that, will it ONLY make the /web
> directory web accessible, or will the entire home folder be web accessible?
> That's what I'm trying to accomplish. 

This should actually be the default behaviour, assuming that in the
apache directives template you have a line like :
DocumentRoot $HOME/web

> 2. I tried logging in as the user that I let the virtualmin create. When I
> create domain.com, it would set up the user, domain, with the password that
> I created. I tried using other passwords, but each time it would put me into
> the ftproot directory that was specified by the native FTP program by OSX,
> which I had never enabled. 

I'm not sure about this - perhaps your OSX FTP server is set up
incorrectly, to treat all users as anonymous?

> 3. In those instances, if it hung during the creating folder, it did create
> it. When it failed creating the user or group, it would create one but not
> the other. The hardest part was that it would not show up in virtualmin, but
> I would have to go and remove the directory it created, and delete the user
> and/or group so that I could recreate it, or else it would fail and say that
> it was already there. It seems to happen more if I try to specify the user
> name instead of letting it pick one for me, but it does happen
> intermittently in both situations. My boss and I are not experts in the
> command line interface and are moving from a Cobalt, so we're trying to
> lessen our learning curve, and nothing else that I've found will handle the
> creation of the websites, ftp, user, dns, and directory in one step like
> something like Virtualmin or something like Plesk or Cpanel, neither one of
> which has an ETA for their OSX offering. 

I haven't seen this problem myself, but it seems to be an OSX-specific
bug. OSX uses a different system for storing user information to other
Unix variants - everything goes into netinfo rather than files like
/etc/passwd. 

Debugging this would be tough without access to system on which the
problem is happening ..

 - Jamie

> Thanks a lot for your help, I've been struggling with this for a few months,
> and I've rebuilt this server approximately 10 times learning more and
> figuring out what I've been doing wrong. I'd like to try to get this
> replaced during the holidays, so all of your help is appreciated. 
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Jamie
> Cameron
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:31 AM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Template help for Virtualmin and general info
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:00, Chris Moncivalles wrote:
> > Hello all. I'm hoping that I can get a couple of hopefully pretty easy
> > questions answered about our new setup. We are in the process of replacing
> > our aging Cobalt Raq server with a brand new Xserve from Apple. I have
> > looked over and over but found no one with a fully certified OSX
> compatible
> > control panel (web based) to administer the server. I was pointed to
> Webmin
> > and found it to be closest to what I needed, with the addition of
> > Virtualmin. I've gotten things loaded and they seem to be somewhat working
> > but I do have a few things that have come up that I hope to solve. 
> > 
> > 1. In my templates, I'm trying to get the new virtual site to create the
> > virtual site, create my home directory under /home/sites, and put the
> > skeleton files into the /web folder under the domain name, i.e.
> > /home/sites/domain for home directory and /home/sites/domain/web for my
> > webroot. I thought I had set that properly under the template settings,
> but
> > it's putting the skeleton files into the root directory and not creating
> the
> > /web folder. I found the previous post about how to do that by putting
> that
> > under the user folder settings, but how do I set it so that ONLY my /web
> > folder is web accessible?
> 
> Make sure that in skeleton directory, you have a web subdirectory into
> which all the template HTML files go.
> 
> > 2. I'm using another server to host my mail, so I only need virtualmin to
> > handle creating the virtual server in Apache, setting up DNS, and setting
> up
> > virtual DNS. After creating the virtual server for FTP, I tried logging
> into
> > it and I got the ftproot folder, NOT my home directory that I wanted. Any
> > suggestions as to how this happened or why it didn't drop me into my
> folder
> > that I needed?
> 
> Were you logging in anonymously, or as the server owner user?
> 
> > Please bear with me as I don't have a lot of *nix experience, but I do
> know
> > enough to work around in there. Also, is it only my server but I have a
> lot
> > of problems with the server hanging during the creation of a virtual
> server
> > through virtualmin either at the "creating home folder" or sometimes it
> > fails at creating the user or group. Is this common or did I do something
> > wrong?
> 
> This shouldn't happen .. did you user actually get created properly in
> this case?
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> 
> 
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