Excuse any ignorance, I am new to the world of Linux and Apache. But I'm a fast learner, and I've been able to migrate my drupal installation to my linode from the command prompt, which I am quite proud of. I am quite fond of it here.

Anyway, I was considering hosting out some of my excess resources to friends, family, and acquaintances for cheap (although nothing like my bloated drupal 7 installation). I decided after excessive googling, to go the webmin/virtualmin route, which i was able to install just fine.

But I ran into an unexpected problem -- once Virtualmin was in place and running the show, all of my virtual hosts vanished under virtualmin. I could have added it back, but it seemed only by creating a new user with new permissions, which I didn't have patience for, because my domain was down. So I freaked out and restored a back up before the chance of investigating virtualmin any further.

I don't want my site ruled by virtualmin, only those of people I host. Can I create a new disk image or partition or something separate that I can install virtualmin in? If so, how do I go about that? Do I need to install a separate instance of devian and apache2 on that partition/disk image? Are partitions and disk images different things?

As you can see, I need help!

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Virtualmin and all control panels tend to take over your whole server. You'll have to get a second Linode if you want separation.

If you managed to handle setting up via the command line why do you want virtualmin?

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thanks for your reply! gotcha, ok, that makes sense.

i'm just a sucker for guis i guess, i'm just looking for an easier method of running multiple websites and controlling user accounts.

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Unless you expect to modify sites settings on a regular basis you're better off just using the command line, normally you can set up and forget.

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pretty much all i'm looking to do is to give users ftp logins, restrict users access to their assigned virtual host, and maybe give users a disk space quota.

http://library.linode.com/security/sftp ... re-openssh and http://library.linode.com/using-linux/users-and-groups should help me with the first two needs pretty well, but how do i set up a directory quota on their virtual hosts?

thanks!

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Have a read of this http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/47

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great! thanks for all of your help!

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