Installing software in clients website

Hi

I am trying to work out the correct way to install software in a client website only and thought I'd ask before breaking my current setup!

The software is the Ubiquiti Unifi Controller and I am trying to install it in a subdomain on one of my sites. I have setup a subdomain under domains... so it has its own web directory for installation. I am not sure how to install it so it is not installed in the servers root directories instead of the websites directories.

I believe the correct way to do this would be to allow the 'client' to SSH into their document root and then run the installation

Code:

sudo apt install unifi

command from here so it installs in /var/www/clients/client6/web23 rather than the server root. Obviously the logged in user needs to be restricted to /var/www/clients/client6/web23 so it doesn't install anywhere else. I did search in this forum and could only find information from 2008, which doesnt quite match the current ISPConfig layout;

https://forum.howtoforge.com/threads/ssh-access-for-clients.16187/

I also looked in the 3.1 manual, but still wasn't 100% sure how to do it, or if you can actually do it. I suspect I may be over thinking this, but can anyone point me to any tutorial or information on this?

Many thanks.

 

Thanks @till - yes it can run in a website as I am already hosting on a dedicated Ubuntu server, so will just FTP/SSH the original installation into /var/www/clients/client6/web23 and hopefully that should work.

 

Sorry, that was a typo on my part, I did mean .../web23/web

Thanks

 

You can try to follow the steps in: https://community.ui.com/questions/...Encrypt-/ccbc7530-dd61-40a7-82ec-22b17f027776 with notes:
1. Install needed software as server root.
2. Ensure wget is added to chroot / jail.
3. Run wget and the downloaded script as website root.