Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:50:34 +0200

Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu

In this tutorial I will show you howto install ehcp on any debian based distro, or any distro that has apt-get support. ehcp stands for Easy Hosting Control Panel. It may be used by anyone wanting to host multiple domains in his dedicated/vps server. It is a hosting control panel under development.

Resolving domain names with dig

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:09:13 +0200

To resolve a domain name on the shell, you can use the command dig. Resolving the domain example.com:

dig example.com

If thedomain can be resolved, the result will be similar to this:

;  DiG 9.2.1  howtoforge.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42946
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 84600 IN A 192.168.0.1

;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 212.227.21.251#53(212.227.21.251)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 26 18:53:32 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48

To check if the local webserver is responsible for this domain use the following command:

HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials - DNS

Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu

Resolving domain names with dig