LXAdmin HostInABox Administrator Manual

Welcome to the LXadmin "Host in a box" Administrator Manual.

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Contents 1 Introduction to LXAdmin 2 THE BASICS 2.1 Accessing the Control Panel 2.2 Default Login Information 2.3 Changing Your Password 2.4 Add a DNS Template 2.5 Add a Reseller 3 MISCELLANEOUS 3.1 Select Your Preferred Site Statistics and Log Analysis Tool

Introduction to LXAdmin

LXadmin "Host In A Box" is the only control panel that makes use of Lighttpd and DJBDNS which only uses 8 MB of RAM with a freshly installed system. The control panel itself uses 1 MB of RAM when idle. LXadmin "Host in a box"' is part of LXadmin, the leading light-weight control panel in the industry. The only difference between the two is the use of different daemons.

This lightweight control panel has all of the features included in all leading control panels such as mail, spam filter, PHP, CGI, Perl, SUexec, FTP, MySQL and much much more. You will get to find out more in this document as you read.

THE BASICS

Accessing the Control Panel

There are several ways to access LXadmin:

• http://yourdomain:7778 - You can access the control panel through any hosted domain by putting :7778 at the end of the domain.

• https://yourdomain:7777 - You can access the control panel securly using SSL through any hosted domain by putting :7777 at the end of the domain.

• http://192.168.0.1:7777 or https://192.168.0.1:7778 - You can access the control panel through any IP address allocated to the server. This is useful when your domain transfer has not yet propagated.

A window will appear. Enter your username and password and you should have successfully logged in.

Default Login Information

If you have just installed the VPSLink CentOS 5 HostinABox/LXAdmin template, your LXAdmin login information will default to the following:

• Username: admin
• Password: admin

You will be prompted to set a new administrator password for LXAdmin after you have successfully logged in.

No changes will be made to the root password for your VPS - this information will only be used to log in to LXAdmin.

Changing Your Password

• To change your password, click client home and then on the top right corner, you will see the password tab. Click on it and fill in your existing password and the new password twice and click Update.

Add a DNS Template

You have to add a DNS template initially. DNS template is the DNS configuration which will be copied to your domain's DNS when a new domain is created. For adding a DNS template, you have to basically specify the primary and secondary nameservers for the domains you are planning to create on this server. For instance: ns1.lxlabs.com and ns2.lxlabs.com . The name is simply an identifier which will be used later when creating the domain.

For creating a new DNS template,

• go to "Client Home"' page and under "Domains", click the "DNS Templates"' icon

In the DNS Templates page, you can see the list of existing DNS templates. If you do not have any existing DNS template, create a new DNS template by clicking the "Add DNS Template"' tab on the top.

• In the next page, enter the DNS information for the template:

• Click the "Add" button and the new DNS template is created. You can see the new DNS template in the list of DNS Templates

• Click on the new DNS Template name to edit DNS records like NS, A, CNAME, MX and TXT

Add a Reseller

Before you proceed to add a new Reseller, you have to add a new plan for the new client/reseller

• To add a new plan, click "Client Plans" icon

• In the next page, click the "Add Client Plan" tab.

Here you can enter the plan details like:

Client Plan name)
Description of the plan
Number Of Clients allowed
Number Of Domains allowed
Disk Usage (in MB)
Number Of Subdomains allowed
Mail Disk Usage (in MB) limit
Number Of Autoresponders allowed
Number of Mail Accounts allowed
Number Of Mailing Lists allowed
Traffic (in MB per Month) limit
Maximum number of MySQL Databases
Maximum Number Of Domain Users
Ability to add more domains
Ability to set Disabled URL
Ability to Enable Ssl
Ability to Enable Statistics
Ability to Enable Cgi
Ability to Enable Php
Ability to Enable Asp.net (ignored On Linux)
Allow Scheduler Management or not
Allow Backup Scheduling or not
Allow Backing Up or not
Can Manage DNS or not

• Once you have created the plan, go back to the "Client Home" page and click the "Clients" button link

This page will list your existing customers and resellers. If you do not have any, click on either the "Add Reseller" tab that you see on the top.

• In the "Add Reseller" page, enter a name for your Reseller, password and email address.

• If you enable the "Send Welcome Message" check box, an email with the account details will be sent automatically to the Reseller's email address.

• Select the plan you have created earlier and click "Add" button.

• Now in the "Clients" page, you should be able to see the new Reseller that you have created:

Click here for Client Management documentation

MISCELLANEOUS

Select Your Preferred Site Statistics and Log Analysis Tool

There are 2 third party Log Analyzer tools available for LxAdmin - Webalizer and AWStats

You can choose either one of them for your customers to use from the LxAdmin Client Management Control Panel

• To select your preferred Log Analyzer tool, open the "Advanced" page from Admin's Client Home page

• Now click on the "General Settings" icon

• Under the "Web Statistics Program" you will notice the drop down menu for choosing Webalizer or AWStats

• Choose either one of them and it will be enabled for all your clients.