Can anybody help-Trying to duplicate Hostgator environment locally

[RobinInTexas]

I have a shared hosting at Hostgator and want to duplicate that environment as much as possible on my local linux system.

Can anybody point me to information on the server configuration at HostGator?

It's mainly the linux settings. There seem to be some effects of the file permissions and (jail)shell configuration that make some things work different there.

I think I can figure out the php and most other pertinent things.

 

[website design]

you would need to install xampp and purchase cpanel. Why not just backup and reinstall on your local setup?

 

[RobinInTexas]

What I'm looking for is not the cpanel,
I'm looking for the Linux (including the jail shell implementation) and Apache configuration

 

[Jake232]

Email Support, don't see why they wouldn't tell you.

 

[rish3]

Their answer is likely "Install WHM/Cpanel". They are probably using the Cpanel provided jailshell setup, so anything other than that won't be terribly close.

It's not cheap. If your morals are flexible, you can google for "whm cpanel nulled"

 

[rish3]

Or you can pitch the hostgator shared account and get a VPS. There's 512MB VPS's for around $6/month now. That would be easier to replicate on a local server

 

[gutterseo]

Or you can pitch the hostgator shared account and get a VPS. There's 512MB VPS's for around $6/month now. That would be easier to replicate on a local server

This, get a vps and install whatever linux distribution you want on it and copy that to your local environment.

 

[stan100]

On a related note, BluePrint is pretty brilliant for reverse-engineering a server that already exists. Great for diving into a box that you inherit on a new project:

https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint

 

[Mahzkrieg]

Thanks for the Blueprint link. Cool project.

Sounds like OP is trying to recreate the Host Gator setup locally to test deployment compatibility? HostGator's shared setup is probably close to a vanilla install of the classic cP/WHM combo. If you want to recreate that without cP/WHM, look into Unix multidomain with multiple users, one of the use-cases of Unix to begin with.

If not, then you need to shell out a whole $6-20/month for a VPS with root access asap. Just as the divide between front-end and back-end developers is closing, the divide between web developers and sys admins is closing. Jack-of-all-trades, motherfuckers.

If you don't know what the command "ls" does, and you're trying to be a developer, you're behind the times. Even a pure .NET developer would want to build, say, an API box.

(I don't know why I went off on that tirade. Don't take it personally, it wasn't really directed at OP. Just an open lamentation.)

 

[timpane]

NET developer would want to build, say, an API box.
Even a pure .If you don't know what the command "ls" does, and you're trying to be a developer, you're behind the times.