On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Warren,
OK, you've probably seen these at GeoCities and Tripod and such --
basically I'm looking to find some CGI that allows a domain owner to
set up Web pages, or rather open hosting to people who want Web
pages, something that includes quotas, pretty strict user control (no
bizarre scripts, etc.), and that might even require human
intervention and approval before a site-setup password is allowed.
Anything like that out there? SourceForge doesn't seem to have
*quite* what I'm after, and of course open-source is most desirable
here. :)
What you're looking for is virtual web hosting software, but Googling
those words is a way to find lots and lots of people who do what you
want to do, for a living.
One place to start looking is
http://webadminmodules.sourceforge.net/?page=ISP+Software. Webmin is a
web-based front-end for *nix administration. Among the many categories
of add-on modules for it is "ISP Software", including "Host4Net",
which looks to be just what you need: "a complete web-hosting
management solution dedicated to small and medium hosting companies."
And it's free.
Hmm. That's not exactly what I was thinking of, I think.
Basically, say I've got a domain, domain.com. I want to set things up
such that users can sign up for (say) a 5 MB quota mini Web site, which
might be top-level hosted at users.domain.com, possibly with a home
directory a la users.domain.com/username/ . Ideally when the user went
there he could see his pages, and in order to add or modify content he
might go to something like users.domain.com/username/content/ or some
such, a passworded section that allowed the user to edit HTML live and
upload things like images, all through a Web interface.
The idea would be to do *something* like what GeoCities does, really.
Just a simple web account that lets low-volume users upload some stuff
and say, in essence, "I'm here".
There must be CGIs that do such things; these sites already exist. I
was just wondering if anyone in the GPL community had done it, or even
what might be some promising Google terms. I've looked over a lot of
sites that offer freebies (including one that has freeware online
auction software!) but so far nada joy.
Thanks for the pointer, though! :)
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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