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Here are a few very easy steps to setup lxadmin.  You can do it easily with a few commands in SSH.

All you really need is a server with SSH access and root access to that SSH.

Make sure that you open the ports 7778 and 7777 in the firewall. Otherwise you won’t be able to connect to lxadmin.

Lxadmin installation consists of downloading either the lxadmin-install-master.sh or lxadmin-install-slave.sh from download.lxlabs.com and executing them as root. They will download all the required files and do the complete installation on their own.

The master copy is mainly for single server configurations.  The slave copy, on the other hand, is for multiple server configurations.  If you would like to have multiple servers, install the master copy on one of the servers and then install the slave copy on all the other servers and list the servers on the master copy.  If you want to do only one server, just simply install the master server.

The commands:

# wget http://download.lxlabs.com/download/lxadmin/production/lxadmin-install-master.sh
# sh ./lxadmin-install-master.sh

After this, everything from lxadmin will be installed including:

1. Web server:

   * apache

   * pure-ftp

   * awstats

2. Mail server:

   * qmail

   * courier (imap pop)

   * webmail

   * httpd (for webmail)

3. Nameserver:

   * bind

   * bind-chroot

4. Database Server:

   * mysql-server

   * postgresql

So there is nothing to worry about missing on your server.

Once lxadmin is installed, you can connect to ‘http://your-hostname:7778‘, and you will be presented with a login screen - the password would be ‘admin‘. Once you login, lxadmin will force you to change your password.

For multiple server configurations:

If you want to have a cluster, you have to run ‘lxadmin-install-slave.sh‘ in all the servers that you intend to make as slaves. Once ‘lxadmin-install-slave.sh‘ is completed, you can add the server from the ‘add server’ page in the master’s server page. From then on, you can manage every aspect of the server through our intuitive graphical interface.

If you have any questions regarding the installation process, or the usage of lxadmin, feel free to post a comment and I can help you out anytime!