On 2006/08/25 15:14, Kyrre Nygerd wrote: > Does anybody run a webhosting business, where they've written > a simple Bash script to add new users and set up their domains in BIND, > virtual hosts in Apache, MySQL databases and so on all in one go? > > I truly wish to keep it real and avoid solutions like cPanel or Webmin.
I'd like to cast a recommendation for doing this in some language other than Bourne-shell. >From the question I guess you might not know another language - if so, this is a great task to serve as a learning exercise, and if you have something you want to code, it's surprisingly quick to pick up enough to get started. Of course it can be done in sh, but having seen the result of this type of system developed by multiple people over a period of time in an ISP environment, it can soon become ugly and hard-to-maintain. One particular problem with sh is that database-integration will be ugly enough that you likely won't want to do it, which would be a shame for a provisioning system as it avoids all manner of hacks to get the information transferred from billing/ordering systems. I'll deliberately avoid suggesting a particular language since I don't fancy ignoring another thread on that - don't spend too much time on the choice: pick one (maybe look at the code format of other programs written in it and see if you can understand it quickly), and get stuck into writing the code.
