Slackwarium

One of my colleagues (Ekrava) showed me this web panel and I couldn’t resist to install it on my servers. :)
Tested on Slackware64-13.1 & Slackware64-13.37

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/
Screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/wiki/Screenshots

So, let’s get started!


First of all we need to install SQLite:

installpkg sqlite

Web panel supports only ruby 1.8.5+ (with ruby 1.9.x subj wouldn’t work), so we need to remove ruby, if we are using Slackware(64)-13.1 and higher:

slackpkg remove ruby

Installing ruby 1.8.7 (from Slackware64-13.0):

wget http://mirrors.mithril.org.ua/linux/slackware/slackware64-13.0/slackware64/d/ruby-1.8.7_p174-x86_64-1.txz

installpkg ruby-1.8.7_p174-x86_64-1.txz

Ruby gems:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/75229/rubygems-1.8.7.tgz

tar -xzvf rubygems-1.8.7.tgz

cd rubygems-1.8.7

ruby setup.rb

Install necessary gems:

gem install sqlite3-ruby net-ssh net-sftp rails

Download and unpack panel into /opt directory:

wget http://ovz-web-panel.googlecode.com/files/ovz-web-panel-2.0.tgz

tar -xzvf ovz-web-panel-2.0.tgz -C /opt

Startup script manipulations:

cp /opt/ovz-web-panel/script/owp /etc/rc.d/rc.owp

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.owp

Manipulations with configs:

cp /opt/ovz-web-panel/config/owp.conf.sample /opt/ovz-web-panel/config/owp.conf

cp /opt/ovz-web-panel/utils/hw-daemon/hw-daemon.ini.sample /opt/ovz-web-panel/utils/hw-daemon/hw-daemon.ini

sed -i "s/key = secret/key = `head -c 200 \/dev\/urandom | md5sum | cut -f1 -d" "`/g" /opt/ovz-web-panel/utils/hw-daemon/hw-daemon.ini

rc.local:

# OpenVZ web panel
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.owp ]; then
    /bin/bash /etc/rc.d/rc.owp start
fi

rc.local_shutdown:

# OpenVZ web panel
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.owp ]; then
    /bin/bash /etc/rc.d/rc.owp stop
fi

Fire up!

/etc/rc.d/rc.owp start

Log into panel at http://<your_host>:3000
Deafult user/password: admin/admin.

This article uses some parts of InstallationAltLinux wiki page.

UPD (2011.08.15): This howto is also available at project’s wiki: http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/wiki/InstallationSlackware