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I like direct telnet access. My clients want a GUI interface - Solution?
Posted by wa7son, 06-24-2005, 01:43 PM |
I like to manage my server by my self - directly in a bash shell via SSH. But I also like to give my costumers the benefit of having a nice user interface like cPanel or Plesk Reloaded.
At the moment I'm using a WHM/cPanel compo, but is it possible to (either with cPanel, Plesk Reloaded or both) to skip the administration GUI interface and just Telnet/SSH into the box and manually manage you server? Or will I risk breaking something so that Plesk/cPanel suddenly doesn't work?
I mean if I manually edit the Apache httpd.conf file in VI, can Plesk or cPanel then still read it successfully?
/thomas
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Posted by SI-Valerie, 06-24-2005, 03:33 PM |
I think the answer depends on exactly what you mean by "manage your server." I can't speak for cPanel, but at least in the case of Plesk it's definitely possible to edit files like httpd.conf without breaking anything--up to a point anyway. I think the answer depends on exactly how much you want to modify the server configuration files.
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Posted by WO-Jacob, 06-24-2005, 07:24 PM |
If you know all the system files for the control panel... go ahead and do it all from ssh... otherwise... i would pass.
cPanel is basically run by scripts though, so you can invoke most scripts from the CLI and have what you need done, while still getting your SSH fix.
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