InterWorx Control Panel is a complex system and works on a variety of platforms. The clean installation of such a system on many platforms is unfortunately not simple and this overview will try to give you an idea of how installing InterWorx Control Panel on your system will affect it.
InterWorx Control Panel will take care of most basic tasks on your system. InterWorx Control Panel sets up logical defaults for those things which are usually left to a system administrator. InterWorx is also very system admin friendly in that you can easily edit files on the system without confusing InterWorx Control Panel. For most tasks you will be able to use InterWorx without ever logging into your server via the shell. You may choose however to perform some tasks on the system via SSH and this is fine as well.
InterWorx Control Panel installs all of the base services (mail, dns, web, ftp) to make your server manageable via InterWorx. The current list of installed packages can always be found on the updates.interworx.com RPM repository, located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/RPMS/. The repository is indexed by distribution and the README will explain the distribution → mapping. Finally, all of our supplemental software packages are also available as SRPMS for your perusal and modification. They are located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/SRPMS/
Getting the Install Script
Installation is most easily done on a "clean" system. By clean we mean one that is newly installed with a supported operating system and that has had no special configuration or other tweaking. Most servers that were previously production boxes or previously housed websites cannot be converted to use InterWorx Control Panel without a reinstall. For servers that previously ran a competitor's control panel system, a fresh install is normally needed as well.
The process for installation is very easy after your core operating system is setup. Just follow the script install instructions and you can have a running system in as little as 15 minutes!
The process for installation is the same for a clustered setup. You must install InterWorx Control Panel on each server in the cluster. The only special requirement for a cluster install is that all servers reside on the same physical network segment.
InterWorx Control Panel Installation Overview
InterWorx Control Panel is a complex system and works on a variety of platforms. The clean installation of such a system on many platforms is unfortunately not simple and this overview will try to give you an idea of how installing InterWorx Control Panel on your system will affect it.
What does it mean to install InterWorx Control Panel on my system?
InterWorx Control Panel will take care of most basic tasks on your system. InterWorx Control Panel sets up logical defaults for those things which are usually left to a system administrator. InterWorx is also very system admin friendly in that you can easily edit files on the system without confusing InterWorx Control Panel. For most tasks you will be able to use InterWorx without ever logging into your server via the shell. You may choose however to perform some tasks on the system via SSH and this is fine as well.
What exactly will be installed?
InterWorx Control Panel installs all of the base services (mail, dns, web, ftp) to make your server manageable via InterWorx. The current list of installed packages can always be found on the updates.interworx.com RPM repository, located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/RPMS/. The repository is indexed by distribution and the README will explain the distribution → mapping. Finally, all of our supplemental software packages are also available as SRPMS for your perusal and modification. They are located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/SRPMS/
Getting the Install Script
What is the process for installation?
Installation is most easily done on a "clean" system. By clean we mean one that is newly installed with a supported operating system and that has had no special configuration or other tweaking. Most servers that were previously production boxes or previously housed websites cannot be converted to use InterWorx Control Panel without a reinstall. For servers that previously ran a competitor's control panel system, a fresh install is normally needed as well.
The process for installation is very easy after your core operating system is setup. Just follow the script install instructions and you can have a running system in as little as 15 minutes!
What if I'm installing an InterWorx Control Panel Cluster?
The process for installation is the same for a clustered setup. You must install InterWorx Control Panel on each server in the cluster. The only special requirement for a cluster install is that all servers reside on the same physical network segment.