LFS WebControl

Since we are planning to release an alpha version (Phenol) in mid-march, we are looking for dedicated testers (LFS Teams, server hoster etc) who woud like to support this project by testing, finding bugs and submitting improvement suggestions.

If you are interested, send your application to lfswebcontrol [at] gjl-network.net and tell us some details about you:

• Some words about you
• How can we contact you
• Are you testing for yourself, with a LFS team or are you a server hoster?
• Any InSim / Programming knowledge? (of course not required)
• Your test environment (root server, PHP-able webspace, PHP version)

We really hope that this call may find your interest and are really looking forward for your applications

The first milestone has now been post poned often and now, the current date is only 2 weeks away. While reviewing some parts of the project I decided to adhere to our first milestone. Therefore this means that on February 02, 2009 a first pre-alpha version will be ready.

This version will still be a very basic version but the goal is to contain all the basic InSim remote controlling features. It will not contain a setup assistant and no FTP access and it will also be no publically available release (except when downloading a SVN snapshot). But when we can keep that milestone, this is a sign, that the project continues well and we achieved a first goal.

One optional thing we are planning for this milestone: a demo system for you to get a first look into LFS WebControl. The next version then will be the full Alpha version codenamed Phenol which will be publically released.

From now on our repository has a new structure. All external libraries etc. have been moved to a seperate folder "/external_libraries/". All sources of our project have been moved to "/sources/".

This was need to make a checkout of our repository without for example Zend Framework or Prototype. Besides the fact that this is the much cleaner and better way, it also has the advantage of not disturbing our ohloh.com software metrics with code that is not being written by us.

However those "externals" will be checked out, too, since they have been linked as svn externals. So if you wish to get the sources for LFS WebControl you should check out from https://lfswebcontrol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lfswebcontrol/sources/

A live demo of LFS WebControl can be found at http://lfswc.gjl-network.net.

Note that this demo reflects the current development state and may therefore be unstable.

There is currently no test account on this server. We'll take care of a first "usable" live demo when there's something really interesting to see

Yepp, we did it! We finally start this as our new project homepage since nothing of that kind did exist before for this project.

So, what can be found here in the future?

• News about LFS WebControl
• Links to our downloads
• Links to our project tracker etc.
• Tutorials, Help, FAQ etc.

This site is going to be our central point of this project

Feel free to post comments.

Welcome to LFS WebControl

LFS WebControl targets the goal to give teams and administrators the possibility to remote control their LFS servers from the web without the need of installing additional software which doesn't even habe user permissions.

Features

LFS WebControl offers you the following features:

• Manage users and user permissions for access to the server
• Manage layouts (FTP access required)
• Manage server configuration via InSim
• Define specific configuration presets for each server
• Watch what's going on on your server - live via LiveControl
• Define and manage ban lists

Status

LFS WebControl is currently still in pre-alpha state. You are welcome to visit our forum at http://lfswebcontrol.gjl-network.net and post us your wishes, comments and so on!

How do I get informed?

We have a mailinglist hosted at sourceforge.net, which can be seen and subscribed here: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=lfswebcontrol-public. You can also simply subscribe to our RSS feeds on this page. To discuss etc. feel free, to use our forums at http://lfswebcontrol.gjl-network.net