Manage domainsI have recently found SME Server and have found its feature set very appealing. However the one thing that I have found most frustrating is the lack of usability in the Domain Manager. What I expected and what I found seems strange to me given the functionality of the rest of the SME feature sets.
Almost everyone suggests to install websites in the /opt directory but when I go to the domain manager there is no option to choose the [example “opt/mywebsitefolder”] folder as the domains folder location and have it do for the /opt folders what it does for the primary and ibay folders, ie resolve the domain to that folder.
Because this functionality is missing there seems to be many people asking the same question over and over again about how to have a domain name resolve to the /opt/mysitefolder directory.
Question. Is there a particular reason why this functionality was never included and is there anyone working towards including this functionality in the domain manager.
Also I would like to make a suggestion that the domain controller be used to either accept an existing /opt installation or to create it with a tick the boxes approach to the feature set similar to ispconfig.
Currently almost everything concerning the web hosting side of sme is done by command line.
What I would love to see is a hybrid of both sme and ispconfig. Sme for all the business management, email and firewall etc needs and an ispconfig style approach to the domain management.
Mmmmmmm Now wouldn’t that just make for the most perfect server.
I must confess that my main box is currently a debian etch ispconfig server running about 12 sites. Its been very reliable. However given all the extra features of sme and its easy to use interface I am looking to change my server over to sme as its easier to go this way than to try and install all these features and functionality onto my debian box.
And I hope ultimately easier to maintain
To everyone developing sme I give you many thanks for what is already a great product.
Thanks
Steve