On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:15 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 01:43:20 Roshan George wrote: > > > If you read my original mail, I was asking what "control panel access" > > > is. I have no idea what it is so I have no basis for comparison. If > > > you tell me that it (CPA) is easier for you than typing commands from > > > the shell then I have to believe you. > > > > CPanel is probably what Balachandar is talking about. It is a web-based > > administration tool commonly used by web hosts. If he is unable to > > obtain CPanel access, there's no point suggesting shell access because > > the functionality provided by the latter is a strict superset of the > > functionality provided by CPanel so no sane person would allow shell > > access and disallow CPanel access (providing it is available). > > and my point is that without shell access, maintaining/repairing/rescuing a > secure wiki and mysql db is not possible. And cpanel is not free software > anyway.
It _is_ possible using CPanel + phpmyadmin. However, you're right about it not being free software, and about shell access being preferable. -- Regards, Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
