Student Webspace

[Disease]

I am looking at a project to offer each student some proper webspace internally, I want to offer PHP, mysql etc. as well as other technologies

 

Has anyone done this and how did you go about it, I would like to set it up so when they log in they have their webspace as a mapped drive ready to drop files in and they can browse to http://webserver/Username to view their files.

[FN-GM]

You can get CPanel free for education, could use that?

[Disease]

Will check it out, thanks.

[cpjitservices]

maybe use WebDav to map the drives too ?

[GTX]

I would go for cPanel as well. If your having problems you could try Centos Panel. Great bit of kit.

[cpjitservices]

You can get CPanel free for education, could use that?

 

There's also zPanel, Like CPanel, but open source.

 

ZPanel | The free web hosting panel

 

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Edited September 12, 2017 by cpjitservices

[cpjitservices]

I would go for cPanel as well. If your having problems you could try Centos Panel. Great bit of kit.

 

Not bad, like a polished version of Webmin.

[pcstru]

I am looking at a project to offer each student some proper webspace internally, I want to offer PHP, mysql etc. as well as other technologies

 

Has anyone done this and how did you go about it, I would like to set it up so when they log in they have their webspace as a mapped drive ready to drop files in and they can browse to http://webserver/Username to view their files.

 

I have an Ubuntu LAMPS server set up. I have some bash scripts which create accounts, a database etc and give access to resources they need from a CSV file. I don't allow drive mapping, they have to use ftp (or rsync etc) to move files - just like in the real world. It is used by a very limited number of students each year so is a reasonable compromise between ease of maintaining it and the functionality it offers.