I want to install a new Linux box and ISPConfig. I have a lot of experience with cpanel/WHM. Great system but it is expensive. Should I just install ISPConfig3? Any reason why a newbie would install 2? Also cpanel uses CentOS. Should I just stick with that or is there a more favorable distro for ISPConfig? I don't want a GUI. I want to manage multiple websites (for the moment on one box). I may get into reseller/client, but at the moment this is all my websites. Also I use .htaccess a lot as well as PHP xdebug. Thanks
Use ISPConfig 3. It is newer, and our development efforts are focused on 3. We recommend Debian. Try this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-with-bind-and-courier-ispconfig-3
This looks good, but I have concern. There is a mention there that there is no doc about setting up to use SSH. cpanel uses a port number like 2087 and 2083. Is there a mini-doc someplace that tells you how to do that after install is complete? Or at least a workaround? Thanks again.
buying the official documentation will help - but setting up ssh is quite easy on any debian ore ubuntu based system... on a side note. running ssh on a non default port is NO security fix AT ALL i wil not even make things harder. i would even go so fare as to say that someonen hiding his ssh that will is probably affraid for hacking, ... if i where a hacker it would probably turrn me on (sorry but really), and i would start on a port scan to go get you. try something like intrusion detections like in a firewall or fail2ban to solve this kinds of problems. make it so that after 3 attemts an ip gets blocked out for a day or so...
Just run Code: apt-get install openssh-server IF you want to change the port, you can do that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
