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Installation report [message #18]

Thu, 01 April 2010 00:48

pwadedotcom
Messages: 2
Registered: April 2010
Location: US

New to the forum

I just wanted to let others know that I followed the installation instructions and created a running vps without any problems. It took about 2 hours. I have been using the debian distro for over 13 years now. Here is a quick overview:

I never used openvz before so I thought I would start with a test. I had a vmware virtual machine that was freely available for the test. It was already running debian lenny amd64. It already had apache2, php5, mysql5 installed.

I installed the standard debian openvz-amd64 kernel, vzctl and vzquota packages about 10 days ago. I also downloaded the vpsadmin package at that time. I got busy with other things and did not get back to it until today.

Today I just followed the steps in the online installation guide. The only thing I did differently was the apache2 setup for the frontend. That is because I use the apache2-mpm-itk (multiuser MPM for Apache 2.2) module. So I did a recursive chown:chgrp of /opt/vpsadmin to user/group vpsadmin. I don't put anything in /var/www and I don't run any websites as user www-data. That means I also had to all a few lines to an apache config file:

<VirtualHost http-001:80>
<IfModule mpm_itk_module>
AssignUserID vpsadmin vpsadmin
MaxClientsVHost 20
</IfModule>

DocumentRoot /home/vpsadmin/vpsadmin
ServerAdmin nospam@localhost
ServerName vpsadmin.somedomain.com
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/....
TransferLog /var/log/apache2/....
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html

<Directory />
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Of course this means my symlinks are different from the examples in the installation guide.

I also added a .htaccess file so the vpsadmin frontend is only available to my own IP space.

My primary feature request would be the ability to just type in the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses when creating/editing a vps. If I already know the addresses I plan to use, having to put them in a pool and then select from a dropdown is cumbersome.

Bottom line is that I think it went very well the first time nad I am very impressed with vpsadmin.

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Re: Installation report [message #26 is a reply to message #18]

Sun, 04 April 2010 08:19

tomas.srnka
Messages: 7
Registered: March 2010
Location: Prague / Bratislava

New to the forum

Hi,

glad to hear that Smile

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Quote:

My primary feature request would be the ability to just type in the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses when creating/editing a vps. If I already know the addresses I plan to use, having to put them in a pool and then select from a dropdown is cumbersome.

Thank you for your idea. The feature will be implemented during next week, it will be part of vpsAdmin 1.1.

Developer of vpsAdmin

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Re: Installation report [message #32 is a reply to message #26]

Tue, 13 April 2010 14:44

pwadedotcom
Messages: 2
Registered: April 2010
Location: US

New to the forum

tomas.srnka wrote on Sun, 04 April 2010 08:19

Hi,

glad to hear that .

Quote:
My primary feature request would be the ability to just type in the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses when creating/editing a vps. If I already know the addresses I plan to use, having to put them in a pool and then select from a dropdown is cumbersome.

Thank you for your idea. The feature will be implemented during next week, it will be part of vpsAdmin 1.1.

A new release would be good. Then we would have our first post in the "Announcement" category of this forum. Smile

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