This weekend I spent some more time on r4hcp (my Ruby and Ruby on Rails Hosting Control Panel). It now features a daemon (which of course will go to the background – or why would it be called a daemon?) which can fulfill tasks which require privileged access. As said earlier, you can use it to administer customers, domains, email & forwardings, databases, database users and FTP users. Screenshots are included with this article.

I’ve included some screenshots below:

The green icons show that services are up, they will become red if they’re down. Customers are a way of grouping domains and other material. Recipients are either email users or forwardings. Domains … doh! Hosts are web (currently only web) hosts for domains, the @ sign is a wildcard host. Databases … doh! Users can either be FTP users or DB users.

The system (r4hcp) requires specific configuration in place for the supported applications: ProFTPD, Postfix, Courier, SASLv2 and Lighttpd. Of course it also requires Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Currently it has only been tested with Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS. I’m almost ready for first time distribution, but I need to make time to sit down and write some setup and configuration instructions. sigh.