So, here we are presenting 7 open source and free web hosting control panels that will help you in managing your servers without problems.

Kloxo

Kloxo is a fully scriptable, distributed and a 100% object oriented hosting platform.

Kloxo – Free Hosting Control Panel

OpenPanel

OpenPanel is a free open source control panel. It has lots of functionality, an attractive interface and is very user friendly. OpenPanel is a platform for developers. Because it is extremely open and modular it can be utilised to control any process on a Linux server.

OpenPanel – Free Hosting Control Panel

ISPConfig

ISPConfig 3 is an open source hosting control panel for Linux which is capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel. ISPConfig is licensed under the BSD license.

ISPConfig – Free Hosting Control Panel

WebsitePanel

WebsitePanel is a complete portal for Cloud Computing Companies and IT Providers to automate the provisioning of a full suite of services on Windows servers. The powerful, flexible open source WebsitePanel platform gives users simple point-and-click control over Windows Server applications including IIS, SQL Server, Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, OCS and Hyper-V Deployments.

WebsitePanel – Free Hosting Control Panel

VHCS

VHCS is a open source web-based interface for easy web server administration for Linux. VHCS is designed for hosting and internet service providers and IT professionals. With VHCS you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. VHCS manage Apache vhosts, DNS, email and FTP accounts, quotas, create statistics and much more.

VHCS – Free Hosting Control Panel

GNUPanel

GNUPanel is a completely free (GPL) replacement for proprietary web hosting automation software. GNUPanel is under development, focusing on translation efforts that permit the entire free software community to participate. Currently, GNUPanel is Debian-centric, however, a distro-agnostic approach is planned.

GNUPanel – Free Hosting Control Panel

EHCP

EHCP is a panel that is built with PHP with features like backup-restore, SSL, script installer and more.

EHCP – Free Hosting Control Panel

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step 1 : log in to your server Putty or any program supports SSH

>> Download Putty

step 2 :  Download Camfrog using this command

wget http://download.camfrog.com/get.php?type=fsl

step 3 :  Next, we install it using this command :

rpm -i get.php?type=fsl --nodeps

step 4: now you wanna use WinSCP

>> Download  WinSCP

Go to the /etc/camfrogserver.d directory

now you have to edit cf_server.conf and put under   SSL_certificate_param=

rooms_active=
flood_protection=on
web_interface_enabled=on                    << this for make web control work
web_server_port=5999                           << port for web control

Note : you can change port with any number you wont

Than save and close

Step 5 : Download this file >>> Room_name

Extract it and log in to room_name folder

Open and Edit cf_room.conf using Notepad Or Wordpad

logon_name=House_club          < your room name
logon_password=123445          < your room password
serial=0000-0000-00000000      < your room procode
remote_access_login=Admin      < user for webpanel  you can change it with any thing you wont
remote_access_password=12344   < pass for webpanel  you can change it with any thing you wont
add_owner_password=12          < password owner for your room you can change it with any thing you wont
talk_time_limit=0              < time mic talk  0 for unlimited 

Than save and close

Now Rename room_name folder to your room name

Now upload your room folder to your server Using WinSCP

Step 6 : Now go to SSH and give this orders
Use this command

service camfrogserver start 

Now start your camfrog server (change “room_name” with your room name):

/etc/init.d/camfrogserver add room_name

And now, start your room (change “room_name” with your room name)

/etc/init.d/camfrogserver start room_name

Now the  Room become Online

Step 7 : Open the Webpanel to control the room

Go to https://yourServerIP:5999 ( https:// )

Put your Login  and password  and Enjoy Your new camfrog room.

If you have any problem  feel free to comment on this tutorial and we will help you as soon as possible.

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Follow the instructions and Red5 will work on most Linux CentOS servers (most cPanel/WHM, VPS or dedicated). Again, if you have a shared hosting account, please contact us so we can help you better!

*to run the commands below, an FTP account is not enough! You will need Shell (SSH) access and a client for connecting ( ex. PuTTy http://www.putty.org ).

Connecting via SSH:
Download PuTTy from http://www.putty.org, install and start the program than enter your server details:
Host Name (or IP address): root@YOUR-SERVER-IP-ADDRESS or username@YOUR-SERVER-IP-ADDRESS
Port: 22 by default or ask your server admin

When you are connected, follow these instructions (type in the commands inside the quotes – one command per line):

INSTALL JAVA

yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

INSTALL ANT

cd /root/tmp
wget http://mirrors.kahuki.com/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.3-bin.tar.bz2
tar jxvf apache-ant-1.8.3-bin.tar.bz2
mv apache-ant-1.8.3 /usr/local/ant

EXPORT VARIABLES FOR ANT AND JAVA

export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip

echo 'export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant' >> /etc/bashrc
echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java' >> /etc/bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin' >> /etc/bashrc
echo 'export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip' >> /etc/bashrc

INSTALL SVN

yum install perl-URI

yum install subversion

INSTALL RED5

svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/1_0/ red5
mv red5 /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/red5

ant prepare
ant dist
cp -r dist/conf .

START RED5

./red5.sh &

CREATE INIT FILE

nano /etc/init.d/red5

paste the script below then save and close.

or you can just download it from here : http://bit.ly/red5-on-centos

#!/bin/sh
# Startup script for Red5 flash streaming server on RedHat/CentOS (cPanel)
# chkconfig: 2345 95 55
# description: Red5 Flash Streaming Server
# processname: red5

PROG=red5
RED5_HOME=/usr/local/red5
DAEMON=$RED5_HOME/$PROG.sh
PIDFILE=/var/run/$PROG.pid

# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

[ -r /etc/sysconfig/red5 ] && . /etc/sysconfig/red5

RETVAL=0

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n $"Starting $PROG: "
cd $RED5_HOME
$DAEMON >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo $! > $PIDFILE
touch /var/lock/subsys/$PROG

fi
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success $"$PROG startup" || failure $"$PROG startup"
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n $"Shutting down $PROG: "
killproc -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$PROG
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status $PROG -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 start"
RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Make it executable and execute:

chmod a+x /etc/init.d/red5
/etc/init.d/red5 restart

You are done, check if Red5 is running by accessing http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080

ACCESSING RED5 ADMIN
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/installer/ (install admin)
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/admin/register.html (add user/pass)
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/admin/

TROUBLESHOOTING
testing ports: http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/demos/port_tester.html
*when testing ports, use server IP not localhost, make these ports accept connections: 1935, 1936, 5080, 8088

netstat -nap
OR
nmap fuser localhost

*on a default cPanel install these ports should be allowed, if not try turning off the firewall for a short time:
WHM -> ConfigServer Security&Firewall -> [Firewall Disable]
If this solves the problem, you must configure csf to accept connections on these ports ( http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html ).

CONNECTING TO MySQL

JabberCam, CRC3 and other video chat software are using MySQL database for user related operations. To use these features, you will need to connect your server-side application to your MySQL database and it may give you a hard time. This is how we succeeded on every server:

tomcat-dbcp.jar – only needed if the next error occurs:

javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory]

*if the above error occurs, download tomcat-dbcp.jar (http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/STUVWXYZ/Downloadtomcatdbcpjar.htm), extract the archive, place tomcat-dbcp.jar in your /lib folder and restart red5
*you may place the file in your /usr/local/red5/webapps/ChatrouletteApp/WEB-INF/lib folder or /usr/local/red5/lib folder, just make sure you don’t have it in both folders!

mysql-connector-java-5.1.12-bin.jar missing
if you are unable to connect to backend services, it means that the MySQL driver is missing, download it (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/) and place it in your /lib folder than restart red5
*you may place the file in your /usr/local/red5/webapps/ChatrouletteApp/WEB-INF/lib folder or /usr/local/red5/lib folder, just make sure you don’t have it in both folders!

commons-dbcp-1.4.jar missing
if you are unable to start your Red5 application (or it doesn’t even show up in admin), download commons-dbcp-1.4.jar (http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/download_dbcp.cgi) extract the archive and place commons-dbcp-1.4.jar in your /lib folder and restart red5
*you may place the file in your /usr/local/red5/webapps/ChatrouletteApp/WEB-INF/lib folder or /usr/local/red5/lib folder, just make sure you don’t have it in both folders!

If still nothing, check your config file /etc/my.cnf

nano /etc/my.cnf

*delete this line: skip-networking than save and quit and restart MySQL:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Red5 ADMIN NOT FOUND Red5 0.9

NOTE: We and numerous other clients/companies tried to run JabberCam, CRC 3 and other video software on Red5 0.9 ir 1.0 without success, we recommend using Red5 0.8 for the moment.

After installing Red5 0.9 or 1.0 and trying to access SERVER_IP:5080/admin/ you will (may) encounter the following error:

HTTP Status 404 - /admin
type Status report
message /admin
description The requested resource (/admin) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.26

no problem, the admin panel was moved here: SERVER_IP:5080/demos/adminPanel.html

When logging in, use the server IP for “Server Address” and the user “admin” with the password “admin”.

If that does not work, you must register an admin user, just follow the instructions below:
*assuming that your Red5 installation path is /usr/local/red5 if it is different (ex. /opt/red5 or /opt/red5/dist/) just change those values in the following commands

cd /root/tmp
mkdir /usr/local/red5/plugins
wget http://red5.googlecode.com/files/AdminPlugin-1.0.zip
unzip -d /usr/local/red5/plugins AdminPlugin-1.0.zip

Get the Red5 admin register page:

mkdir /usr/local/red5/webapps/admin
wget http://red5.googlecode.com/files/admin.jsp
mv admin.jsp /usr/local/red5/webapps/admin

*restart Red5 (/etc/init.d/red5 restart)

Access Register Admin page: YOUR_IP:5080/admin/admin.jsp and register your admin user and password.

Finally go back to SERVER_IP:5080/demos/adminPanel.html and log in using the user and password you just registered (and your server IP).

RED5 LARGE LOG FILE

/usr/local/red5/log/red5.log is getting too big

Solution: add an appender to /usr/local/red5/conf/logback.xml (MaxHistory 11 days and MaxFileSize 100MB here. You may change it)

<appender name="FILE">
<File>log/red5.log</File>
<Append>false</Append>
<rollingPolicy>
<FileNamePattern>log/red5.%dyyyy-MM-dd.log</FileNamePattern>
<MaxHistory>11</MaxHistory>
</rollingPolicy>
<Encoding>UTF-8</Encoding>
<BufferedIO>false</BufferedIO>
<ImmediateFlush>true</ImmediateFlush>
<layout>
<Pattern>%dISO8601 [%thread] %-5level %logger35 - %msg%n</Pattern>
</layout>
<triggeringPolicy>
<MaxFileSize>100MB</MaxFileSize>
</triggeringPolicy>
</appender>

You can also separate Red5 logs using a Threshold Filter:

<appender name="FILE">
<File>log/red5errors.log</File>
<Append>false</Append>
<filter>
<level>WARN</level>
</filter>
...
</appender>

Everything you need to start your Red5 flash media server on a cPanel host and run JabberCam or similar chatroulette software is here. If we missed something and you found the solution, please post it here. At least a third of this description was sent to us by a user/client. Thank you for all the e-mails and feedbacks!

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So, I started looking into lighttpd, which is a super fast / lightweight Linux server. The configuration files are a bit easier to understand as well. lighttpd only uses one process, while Apache uses a new process for each request. lighttpd lacks some of the features of Apache (none of which I apparently use because I couldn’t find said features). One of the major drawbacks is that it doesn’t use per-directory configuration files (.htaccess files) which means if you want to reconfigure something, you need to change the main server config file and do a restart (which isn’t a big deal, lighttpd restart = 0.25 seconds, Apache restart = 10 seconds). This means Apache is better for multi site environments, and shared hosts, while lighttpd is better for single application servers with one owner.

Anyway, here are the commands to get lighttpd up and running with PHP. It uses Fast CGI to run PHP.

sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload

The first command installs lighttpd and PHP’s CGI package. The second command is a lighttpd configuration app which enables fastcgi. The third command restarts the server.

Once you’ve got this installed and setup, you’ll need to do some server configurations. The PHP configuration file (if you’ve been using Apache) is now located in a new directory (/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini) and you may need to migrate some settings over. The lighttpd configuration file is of course in a different directory than Apache’s (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf).