programming to run linux shell scripts.

I'm working on a webhosting server and I'm going to be offering free webhosting, i got my Apache2 server all set up for virtual hosts ect, but I want insant activation. How would I go about making .cgi or .php script that would take the opropriate shell commands and do them automatically?

 

Well you can use the exec program of php to execute a script and pass it some string variables as parameters

http://us2.php.net/shell_exec

you would then probably need some sort of configuration for for apache that has the domain setups depending on how you want to do it, most servers (i think) make a user and apache shares the users home directory (there is an option for this in the apache conf file)

so the script would probably need to make use of useradd, setting passwords and you probably want to install ssh server for access or an ftp server.