Access linux server via web

Question

I would like to mount a linux server with multiple users. The idea is that every user can access the server with his own account using a web page.

Anyone has an idea of how to do it ?

Answer 1

What exactly would the users do or access on the site? File access, shell access, do they want to manage hosting, etc. The question is not very clear. If you are looking to provide hosting of mail, web, etc, then a package like the penguinator would work:

http://penguinator.org

If you want to give people access to the system rather than hosting, then webmin is pretty good:

http://www.webmin.com/

Don't know if that helps.

Answer 2

I think you are looking for userdir, in which each user has this kind of url:

http://foobar.org/~elcuco

in the files are avialble from: /home/elcuco/public_html/ (don't forget to chmod a+rx ~/public_html)

Answer 3

If I understood, I would use virtualbox and apache webserver and create site using something like PHP.