[plug] Web based administration tools

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:57, Arkem wrote:
> I'm setting up a server for a friend of mine and since they aren't
> very linux literate I need a way to make administration tasks as
> simple as possible. This will be a webserver predominantly running
> apache, can anyone recommend some tools that may help? I've heard of
> packages that come with web based control interfaces, these would be
> good and also are the firewall/server distributions (Smoothwall or
> E-smith or whatever) any good for this kind of thing? I was thinking
> of perhaps running Debian on it but if I can't find much in the way
> to make the day to day administration and monitoring easier I'll have
> to consider alternatives.

WEBMIN!

If you do use debian,
apt-get install webmin webmin-apache webmin-<whatever-you-need>

I haven't found anything that surpasses it. Sometimes you will need to ssh in 
and tweak things, but only in unusual situations.