Newbie Q: Is ispCP Omega the right tool for me?

[motokochan]

Hopefully I'll be able to cover the issues...

(12-16-2009 01:08 PM)pete Wrote:  So far so good but, when I try to get to WebMail for elegancenz.co.nz, I have to use the ugly URL: http://admin.serifos.elegancenz.co.nz/we.../login.php
When what I'd really like to use would be something like:
http://webmail.elegancenz.co.nz
or for another domain
http://webmail.hbweddingshow.co.nz

Can this be done?

See either:
Create a subdomain webmail for all your domains to access the webmail or Create panel.domain.tld, pma.domain.tld, webftp.domain.tld, and webmail.domain.tld subdomains to access ispCP's main panel and the different ispCP tools

The HowTo section in the wiki (Documentation link at top of the page) is a good read.

(12-16-2009 01:08 PM)pete Wrote:  2) So far all is more or less OK but I'd like to back things up. I vaguely remember (which proves I'm not much into tea) that ispCP offered some backup options (and I think I chose Domain), but I have no idea what they mean or do. It would be fantastic if I could pull a differential backup (say once a week) from the server and if that backup were such that if I had to I could rebuild a virgin VPS in minutes rather than days.

Any thoughts on this?

There is a backup option in 1.0.3, but I haven't played with it. (I have RackSpace backing up the whole server nightly.) I'd look through the various topics here for information on that feature.

(12-16-2009 01:08 PM)pete Wrote:  - what puzzles me is how I could simplifyeed to get to the ispCP, the only way that works is via IP address

It works by IP because it's the first Virtual Host in the configuration. Apache will use the first entry if nothing else matches (It's a handy feature in many cases). If you used the configuration defaults, the panel will use the name "admin.servername.example.com", so make sure that resolves to the IP of the server.